Why are saddle prices so low at the moment?

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Just been looking through ebay (I know I shouldn't) and noticed that many of the well known makes of saddle are being sold very cheaply or not selling, even when the starting bid / reserve is really low.
 
Because everyone wants a new saddle so the market is flooded.

Saddles are as cheap now as they have ever been

If its not a known brand secondhand saddles have zero value.
 
its all relative to each person isnt it cos when i look i still think theyre expensive / cant afford what i want...but now youve mentioned it im going to start looking again (groan!)
 
You don't want a nice 18" Barnsby GP do you?!
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i agree i bought a saddle last year for £1000 and this year my horse changed and so it is on the market and a saddler valued it at £550!!!! agggggggggghhhhhh
 
TGM...sounds very interesting of course I do, I dont have too much pride not to accept any help/bargains/seconds etc, let me pm you to discuss price etc...hoping your post is serious, especially as you are in the SE as I am
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I always worry about buying saddles off ebay as you don't know if they'll actually fit your horse and can't send them back if they don't! So I wouldn't risk paying much money for one.
 
I have been trying to sell a black wide jaguar jumping saddle with no luck. When I was looking to buy one I couldn't find a second hand one for love or money. I've advertised it on ebay three times with a starting bid of £500 no reserve with not one bid!

I'd have thought it would have gone like a shot!
 
I bought a 2nd hand jumping saddle end of last year for £600 (for a new horse that didn't work out) and ended up letting it go for £250 on eBay because the shop I bought it off said they'd been trying to sell it for over a year for the previous owners. I'd tried advertising it locally, putting it in a saddlers shop and twice on ebay with a reserve on it, to no avail.

Didn't want to spend anything like that much in the first place but nothing else seemed to suit me or the horse.
 
I think they seem cheap at the moment too. Because of this I am thinking about getting a dressage saddle, I can get a really nice second hand one for a few hunderd pounds.

I bought an almost new Ideal GP a while ago off ebay for £170, it didnt even look like it had been ridden in more than twice. It didnt fit my horse so I put it back on ebay and got almost £300 for it
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The lady who bought it was made up and still though it was a bargain, which it was. But it just goes to show how cheap you can get them for it you look.
 
I know a new saddle basically halves in price once it's been ridden in, which is an ouch!

I also wonder if Ebay has finally cuased the drop in prices that were previously controlled by the saddlers?

You used to hear it was always so hard to find a good secondhand saddle, then you'd try to sell your good second hand saddle and never sucseed.

Now ebay alows us all to sell our second hand saddles ourselves very easily with country wide advertising and voild suddenyl there are loads of them out there and easily avaliable and we can sell them on again if they're no good.

Tis a good thing I think. Although to be honest the last 4 saddles I bought have been brand new and fitted for me. I'm just to paranoid about fit to risk ebay, it's people like me keeping the saddlers in business
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