Re: RC: Re: Horses wanted

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

The market got flooded YEARS ago...especially with arabs and they were going
cheap.  Then there were the Arabian show people who thought endurance arabs
were the rejects and sold all their "ugly" ones cheap.  Now, there is a lack
of good arabs.  But, many seem to think they can still get a horse cheap
because there are so many.  Let this person suffer in oblivion.  I have some
GOOD horses, too and want $5000 for each.  I will negotiate to the right
home, but, in the long run, you DO get what you pay for.

This person will probably pay $500 and get some doped up REAL reject who, as
soon as the drugs wear off, will end up at the glue factory where it
belonged and the sorry buyer will be back to square one.

Teddy in SE Ohio

Lif Strand wrote:

> I forwarded that request for cheap  horses to the list.  I am pretty
> amazed at the responses.  Paul told me to add (after it was too late &
> I'd already sent the email) that anyone with such a horse to sell should
> first make sure this person was not a "front" for a killer buyer.
> Someone else pointed that out right away, though.
>
> What amazed me is all the indignation that someone would expect a person
> to sell a horse that cheaply.  Yet I subscribe to several lists - not
> just this one - and there are lots of people all the time who expect to
> only pay that much ($700 seems to be the break off point) for a horse.
> I have received *nasty* emails about the nerve I have asking $5000 for
> an extremely well trained, well behaved 10 year old mare.  I receive
> *lots* of emails asking if we have $500 well trained 10 year old (insert
> color and height and sex) horses.  Nobody on this list would sell their
> horse that cheaply, but then it also seems nobody wants to pay what it
> costs to raise a horse, either.
>
> I don't know.  I'm confused.  LIf
>
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