Selling horses - whats selling?

Clodagh

Clodagh

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As title really. I have one to sell and one to buy and wondered what my chances are. Anyone on here selling and how is it going? Much response to your ad?
I hate selling at the best of times.
 
I know of a few for sale at the moment and the owners are having very little (if any) response. Three of them are PC allrounders and the fourth is a promising Irish horse with low mileage. Some advertisers (not the ones I know) do seem to be asking prices which are far too high fro the current market though.
 
Some of it seems to be down to luck. It is important to get good photos including ridden ones. You see too many dark, blurred or taken from bad angles! Good luck.
 
I must say when people advertise a horse with poor photos, you think why bother! Its not as though its hard with digital cameras to get a good one.
My pony is an allrounder and honest but only a pone, I bet if she was 15hh she go tomorrow! I haven't advertised her yet anyway, except for a poster at Pony Club. A lady did call but I don't think Pony is quite what she wants. I am holding off buying new one until she is sold as with the hay situation I don't want to end up with too many.
 
I have a 15hh Sports Horse mare for sale for reasonable price (good pic!!!). Amazing paces and good jump. Had her on a local site and BD for 10 days, no reponse. Went on H&H Mon pm, had one email yesterday asking if still available. Replied yes and got reply back saying that she was busy until end of the month and if still available then she'd come to look!!! ARGH!!!!!!

She goes in magazine Thurs. Fingers crossed.
 
niagaraduval said:
Good honest all rounders are selling although nothing else is.
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I'd totally agree, as someone who has just bought after months of looking for exactly that I found anyone selling such they went quickly but anything else with any ifs, buts or quirks seems to have been advertised again and again, sorry to anyone selling :-(
 
Best of luck, I thought I'd advertise with H&H too, its not too expensive now I don't think. And the PC website for me.
 
I've advertised my Fell allrounder on Horsemart, Horsequest, Horse Hunter, the PC website, Preloved and some free sites and have had 10 email/phone enquiries and one seriously interested party who didn't end up viewing due to personal circumstances. (The majority of the enquiries have come off Horsequest).

Pony is fantastic and very reasonably priced so I'm sure she would sell if only I could get someone to view her.

I know a couple of other people trying to sell who haven't had as much as a phone call.
 
niagaraduval said:
Good honest all rounders are selling although nothing else is.
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Well, this certainly seems to be the case as I know of several people who are looking for confidence giving allrounders, including myself.

I haven't started viewing, as I have to wait until September before I can buy, but I've been keeping an eye out on all the websites, and I have let everyone locally know that I'm looking for something that I can compete on, by myself and without the stress of a horse with 'quirks'. There have been a few who ticked all the boxes and I liked the sound of, but they sold quite quickly.
 
i've just brought a 4yo to hopefully bring on and event. He was the first one i tried, his price had been dropped due to lack of interest so i snapped him up!!
 
ditto everyone else. My daughter's SJ/PC pony is for sale and I've had no response to my ad on Horsequest and only a couple of phone calls from the ad on the PC website.

I did have one family come to try him and they really liked him and arranged to come back with their instructor, but after all of that they rang to say they didn't have enough money for him!

I love him to bits and would love to be able to keep him, but he has to go as my daughter is 5'8" and really needs a 16-16.2hh at least!
 
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