Why do sellers bite their nose off to spite their face?

broke_but_happy said:
Thought most people advertise for more than they want so they can haggle down to the price they actually want...
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Probably do, I don't. To me, that is akin to walking around the block to get to the shop two doors down :confused: I know some people enjoy that though and like to think they are getting one over on the seller, and vice versa.

I find haggling awkward and irritating as a seller, I simply can't be bothered with it, so I don't do it. Personal thing.

In the OPs case if they bought the horse now, they are getting a bargain, with regards to the original price:)
 
I had a gorgeous coloured youngster once, proper kids showjumper and would go very far in the right hands. Advertised it for £3.5k and had one seller who offered me a grand!!! They were race trainers so used to hard haggling!
 
Holly Hocks said:
Enfys - I think your horses might be in a different league than this one (in that yours will more than likely be a lot higher quality!), and there is a bit more to the story than I feel I should put on the forum. I can understand you not wanting to be in a rush to sell, but this person clearly is. It was originally on a £1450, was at £1300 when I went to see her, last Saturday and now on at £960 just five days later. I am leaving her alone, for now......
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A lot of people are sadly reducing their prices in this dramatic way at the moment, because they don't want the horse over the winter. She, as you have said was over priced before, and now they have realised that, they have dropped the price down the ranks, probably hoping to get more interest.

I bought a mare from malvern performance sales, her reserve was £1500 to start with, which IMO was a little over, I'd have said £1000 reserve. I eventually got her for a lot lot less :eek:
Purely because they didn't want to take ANY stock home with them as they were over-run coming into winter and needed to reduce numbers, as due to the current economic climate, things hadn't been selling at the rate they expected.

I understand your annoyance, I myself have let things go because of narky sellers. I think however, in this case it might be worth your time pursuing it a bit further when you are in a better frame of mind? She is now under your proposed budget, and I imagine you could get someone to make an offer on her & they would accept, if my above prediction of the situation was right.

You need to think, will you regret not getting her if you find out she sold for say £850 in a few weeks?
 
Over here (Ireland) everyone expects (and enjoys) haggling over the price, you'd be thought very odd if you paid the asking price. A timewaster in the UK seems to be anyone who doesn't immediately snap up the seller's horse, and mentioning it in a subsequent ad is just extremely petty, pointless and unprofessional (NB: most sellers seem to be amateurs).
 
I was once called a timewaster, all beacuse the horse failed a vetting, you'd think that because I went to the cost of having a vetting that maybe I wasn't a timewaster...

Think sellers just do it so the advert looks more legit, and it's not their fault it hasn't sold
 
My last horse i went to see, and subsequently bought :D i asked if they were open to negotiation and got reduction in price before id even gone to see her.
Yes she was a lovely young mare, with potential and was doing a nice job, but so are hundreds of others out there, and movement of horse was pretty rubbish then as well.
As it was, i got £600 off, they got a 5* home for life, we still keep in touch and i send pics and emails letting them know how she's doing
 
marydoll said:
My last horse i went to see, and subsequently bought :D i asked if they were open to negotiation and got reduction in price before id even gone to see her.
Yes she was a lovely young mare, with potential and was doing a nice job, but so are hundreds of others out there, and movement of horse was pretty rubbish then as well.
As it was, i got £600 off, they got a 5* home for life, we still keep in touch and i send pics and emails letting them know how she's doing
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Yes you probably got a reduction because the horse had a problem [which they had failed to mention]
 
Well I must have all the front in the world! I bought a horse out of Matt Ryan's yard, it was on livery and advertised for £5250. I thought it Was over priced and offered and bought him for £1250. Last horse I bought was advertised for £5.5k, lovely horse but had a quirk. Offered and got him for £2k! I also bought a horse for £1. If you don't ask you don't get! They Can always say no!
 
It does irritate me that anyone who enquires about or goes to view a horse and decides not to buy it is deemed to be a timewaster!

Repeated phone calls, making appointments to view but never turning up, or trying repeatedly and at length, and saying "we'll be in touch" but never hearing from them again - THEY are timewasters.

Like others I would be put off by "readvertised due to timewasters" on an ad!
 
I have a super, safe, genuine yet talented rising 6yo 16.1hh mare for sale. Today people came to try her for the third time, and each time they have come different employees/friends have ridden her. This has not disturbed the horse at all and she has behaved impeccably throughout on the flat, showjumping, xc in the fields and hacking out.

Between viewings two and three the prospective purchaser asked me what my bottom price was and I told her my asking price. Today, after the viewing I was called this evening and offered a lot less than the price I said explicitly was my bottom one, ie my asking price. This was based mainly on her colour and "the current market".

I have no problem with someone calling about a horse, explaining their budget and asking if it would be worth them coming to view but to have 4 people ride a horse on three separate viewings and then to offer a lot less than I had explicitly said I would take is quite simply time-wasting in my book.
 
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