What it's Worth?

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My Uncle,who is a hunting man always said to me 'A horse is only worth what you want to pay for it!' Now, I ponder on this for alot of years and still wonder,so my question is did you pay a fair price for your horse.....I did pay alot for my cob,but ,I paid for the fact he can show,do working cob,is 100% bombproof,good to box,shoe,clip and is a nice well schooled horse......it alway's interest me the post's that go along the lines of 'How Much Do You Think This Is Worth?'.....As I think it is difficult to price a horse,as such a personal thing!
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Exactly. I did a how much the other week, and some people valued him at about 200 pounds. Then on the other hand I was offered four times that for him. So a horse really is only worth what someone will pay for it.
 
I paid a lot less than what mine is worth now.....have been offered 4 times what we paid for him
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But he has changed...last year i would have never put a novice on him but I would now trust him with my cousin who is only 5!!! He probably isn't as good as he could be but i had a few problems last year and didn't work as hard as a i should have!!

I think a horse is worth what soemone will pay for them
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I definatly would pay more than i paid for Hemir....but everyone thinks i got a bargain
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I agree.... I didnt pay much imo for Inky ( well some of you would be horrified considering he's a mini!!!
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) but ive been offered much more for him and even his breeder says she diddled herself!!!!! Paid a bit more than i wanted for Ty but he was just what i wanted and i dont regret it. They are both with me for life so if you divide their price by god knows how many years it doesnt actually work out that much!!!
 
agreed... anything's worth what someone else is prepared to pay for it... and with horses, it's even more fluid, because a horse worth a lot to one person wouldn't necessarily be worth a lot to someone with different requirements!
i've not overpaid for a horse yet, as far as i'm concerned. other people might think i did though!
my best ever buy was a mare which i got for half the price that other people had been told (from a dealer) because she was a bit difficult and had sarcoids, and who went to 3-star eventing with me. she was lovely.
 
I think that is right. I was offered a stupidly big amount for Ginga to sell him for a four in hand team of his breeding, but we paid less than quater that for him and we would not have paid much more for him. Also we once had a shetland who we sold for £15,000 because they offered it. The shetland was very good showing and the people argues if it was a show pony you would not mind paying that, personaly I would never spend that on a shetty.
 
I reckon i paid a really good price for my Max. And was even cheeky enough to knock £800 off what they were asking for him.
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To me though he is worth far more than i paid for him, but to someone else he may be worth peanuts. It doesn.t mattert to me, as he will never be for sale.
I did a how much just for fun, the other week, didn't get many replies, but the ones i did get, valued him at a lot more than i paid for him
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It is all about one persons preference, and ideals.
At the end of the day as long as we are happy with what we've got, that's all that matters. You can't put a price on happiness
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I dont know to be honest. I paid fair price for ben well very good for what he is, have been offered more than double what I paid for him anyway and declined. I am not selling him no need to.
 
There is a "going price" for everything in life. Everything is placed into boxes, categories. Horses are no different. You start with a base price and then you either work up or down depending on the more things you know about a horse. For example, if it has specific breeding lines then its base price will be far greater than a comparable horse with no pedigree. Then you move onto conformation, once again there will be a base price for horses within the category, and once again the price will increase or decrease depending on how superior or inferior the conformation actually is.

When people give a price bracket on here, they are generally basing the figure on all of the information given and based on comparable horses within this category.

It really is no different to pricing grades of hay, oil, cars, houses etc. Everything has a marketable value, the buyer fixes the end price and the seller sets the initial price. If the goods are not up to scratch then the price would reflect that.
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Ditto Tia + whatever the local market value is, depending on the local culture, purchasing power, fashion, etc... all dictated by the buyer it seems to me. Same horse won't sell for the same price in Canada, France, the UK, the US or Germany for example. Here, the price of a good eventer with potential will never sell as much as what a half-decent showjumper is worth on the market. Showjumping generates more money than eventing does
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I know I paid too much for D, an Irish TB, hobdayed with joint prob and behavioural issues but I had him on loan first and totally fell for him. A friend said he was only really worth meat money and whatever he was worth to me..........now he's priceless, to me anyway!

I think I probably paid too much for Monty. A 16.3hh, 6 yo registered part bred arab who had pretty much just hacked for last year. I paid £2900 for him but really I think he was only worth about £2500 tops. Hopefully he will be worth more one day, not that he'll be sold.
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I've only actually paid for 2 horses in my life. One of them cost £1600 which was about right, and the other £350... which was also about right.
PF was a freebie. I don't think I would've bought her as I thought she'd be too small, and later she took SUCH a lot of hard work to get to where we are now.
I tell people I brought her to Argentina because no one would've bought her when we were in the UK!!
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For what he is as he stood...a nicely put together Welsh D with very good breeding lines it was a good price. But I think when you add in the issues he had and the amount of work he needed to get him to where he is and his greeness, I probably paid a bit much and he came with nothing but a head collar!!!! But he was right for me and both me and OH had fallen for him and knew he was 'the one'!
I do not regret a single penny of it and he is worth more now anyway I guess. But it is irrelevant as he won't be going anywhere at all and he is worth his weight in gold to me.
 
I think there's a lot of people who wouldn't pay what I paid for my pony, but to me he was worth every penny because I feel safe with him. I think there's more of a market value on competition horses - their value can go up relative to what they have achieved. For safe happy hackers I think it really is a case of them being worth what someone will pay.
 
my boy wasnt worth wot i paid for him at the time ,people would say, because he looked such a neglected mess but i would of paid a lot lot more ,and to see how happy he is today means more than money anydayxxx
 
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