Sending a horse away to be sold

Seth

Seth

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Can anyone tell me an average amount that you'd pay weekly/monthly for 'sales livery', and generally how it works? Do they immediately search for people to view the horse, or do they school it on for a while? How much commission would they take off the sale?

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It depends on the deal. I sold mine 2 years ago through Two Mills Sport Horses and had the choice of a set amount per week and I got the full value of the sale, or pay full livery and a % commission.

At the time I paid £100pw full livery plus 10% sales commission.

The timing depends on the horse, its readiness for sale and whether a couple weeks schooling will add value.

Hope that helps
 
Our sales livery is £100 a week flat rate, you pay shoes, worming, any advertising, vet, boxing to shows and entries. We ride every day, will school on a bit and have your horse out competing and/or hunting so it can be seen by pot. customers. We will also take all photos, show to clients. Horse comes in, has a weeks assess. and then is normally discussed with owner as too next steps, often they sell better if out and about so sometimes if you want a higher price for a ring rusty horse we will have it a couple of weeks competing twice a week so its ready to go for new home and worth a bit more. We then take 10% com. on sale. Sales livery is best for you if you don't want anything to do with selling your horse, I prefer owners to basically butt out the sale, as often you will find things we won't as in a proff environment a horse is normally completely different. To me the best sales liveries are the ones who don't call, and leave me too it! Of course we are happy for owners to talk to new owners, but normally after the horse is sold and left!
 
Mine was on sales livery. She'd been out of action for a month and hadn't long been broken (so not a quick and easy bring back into work), so was there 2/3 weeks before she was advertised. But if anyone came in who would have been suitable before then was shown her. I think they normally assess them for about a week (less if the horse is a doddle I expect!).

She varies on price depending on size of horse. Mine was 15hh and she charges £80 + 10% (incl all care, 6 days a week schooling, feed, bedding etc. I just had to pay for any farrier, vets, worming)
 
I recently contacted a fairly well known (in my area anyway) dressage rider to ask how much he would charge to sell my horse.....

£45 a day for him
£25 a day livery
plus 10% commission

yes that's right, £70 a day, £490 a week!!!! I e-mailed him back to ask if that was correct as it seems rather a lot of money and it was!

Another yard near me charges £35 a day for schooling/selling livery, but she doesn't take a commission.

Oldencraig charges £200 a week and that includes everything but you pay another amount up front for advertising. I think they also take 10%
 
I charge, from £55 pw plus 10% commsion on sale. the 55 covers hay,straw, all the normal things like fly spray hoof moist shampoo plus exercise at least 4 times a week, to school on or take horse out competing the price go up. not including in the price is shoes, wormers etc.

advertising wise, i have my own websites and have a5 posters up all over the southwest plus advertise on all the normal horsies sites, generally I give it a go with all the free advertising if no luck then approach owner about using paid advertising which they are required to pay for.

standards wise... horses are always clean and presentable, my fields always poopicked yard always clean and customers are made welcome and invited to view horse as many times as they wish.

I know im very cheap, but my business is only a year old and i feel that having the website full and horses for sale meens good refs which in turn are priceless. it is so far working, I have a 5 box yard and 10 acres and currently have 4 sales liverys and 2 of my own.

if owners are happy then for sales liveries Im happy to let a horse go on trial if buyer is local to me but its done on a very strict contract and 50% deposit. The way i see that is that ok so as a sales livery the buyer has little comeback on me but its not in my intrests to mis match a horse/rider or turn my back on them if they are having troubles.
 
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