Why am i struggling to sell my horse ?

[Faithkat]

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I can see where your coming from but not everyone wants a competition horse. Some would pay a high price for a solid good novice horse they can stick their OH on and know it's not likely to take off (dope on a rope so to speak). No offence meant to anyone.

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Very true. A friend of mine recently (well, about 6 months ago now) sold a 14hh 12 year old Irish cob of unknown breeding, never been anywhere or done anything apart from hack round the New Forest for £4k (I nearly fell over) but, like you say, "a dope on a rope" is always popular

 

[rainycali]

Sorry havent been on for 2 days to reply.
He is the sort who you could put your non riding OH on. we had 1 person come to see him whos OH had been riding 6 weeks who even jumped him over one of our xcountry fences.

as said above - if the price is too much why do they bother to come and see him or even ring me.

we are flexible on the price as hes been a star to us and deserves a cracking home but not as much as 2k !

we paid 7k for him as an ex (re registered) grade a sj 2 years ago, and were told by friends at the time this was very good value for what hes done. he has
taught my OH to jump, and taken him upto newcomers level.

He must be on horsemart as we are still getting calls for him - unsure why hes not on the other sites - will chase that up.

we had someone come last night, who had been riding 18 months, very unsecure in her seat - if she lost her balance he just came back to walk for her to regain.

If he was a pony for a child - what price tag would you put on an out and out schoolmaster that is as quiet as he is.

As 1st post said - i dont have an issue with the amount of people phoning. Just when they turn up most of them seem like day trippers - we have had about 10 sets of people come to see him 2 of which were complete novices, 4 of which said they liked him but didnt call back, 1 who came to see him 3 times - including a 1 hour hack, and then decided they didnt want him, and 3 complete timewasters who turn up in flip flops, or just to look at him!!

rant over!! sorry