Trouble Selling Horses

I've been trying to sell most of my horses for the past few months and I don't know if its because they're too expensive or if there are any other factors that are turning people away, but people will bid on them and then change their minds and delete the bid. Have you guys struggled with this before? Also I hate to be that person, but please check out my for sale division, I have some nice horses that need to go :)

I think everyone’s struggling, the market is just horrible. I had horses on for a couple weeks for a couple hundred bucks, and they where good horses, but no one bought. Also I would grab some of your Andies but they’re stats are too high in a discipline other then Western, which is what I breed for. :)

Selling horses on EV lately has been quite difficult for most, I believe. I rarely sell horses for that reason because I've worked for years to finally have International level Appaloosas with some of the lowest non spec stats for the breed, that I know I wouldn't get anywhere near what they're worth if I wanted to sell them.

It really depends on what players are breeding for too. There are players who breed for overall high stats and some who breed for colour and then there's the group I fit into, that breed for a combination of extremely low non spec stats along with extremely high discipline specific stats. You have some beautiful paints, for sure.. but alas, they're non spec stats are much to high for what I'm looking for.. They would be more suitable for people breeding for overall high stats.. 

I know the Andalusian market is overflowing with some beautiful high statted, nicely coloured horses, with extremely low non spec stats.. I think people may be looking for less common lines with them, not sure..but the first 5 or 6 pages in the horses sales ( displayed with highest stats first) is allllll Andalusians.. so many gorgeous colours to choose from.. Andy overflow..

There are only a handful of Lippy breeders and very few dedicated Friesian breeders aswell.. Which makes it all the more difficult to sell those horses overall.. In my opinion anyway.

Selling horses on EV has been quiet the struggle for everyone, I'm sure.. Well that's my opinion on it anyways :o)

selling horses has been rough for everyone, the market is just in the ditch right now. why? i myself cannot say, though there have been multiple discussions regarding possible causes. i remember seeing a suggestion on capping horse many horses you can create in the equine center again, which would be inconvenient for me but i can see where it would benefit - it would force people to buy horses from others even if they are just equine center slots or outside stock. i definitely think there needs to be a game-wide discussion about the issue and something in the game needs to be changed because no matter how many good horses you produce, you can't force people to buy them when, if they have the resources, they can just create them themselves (ie credit items to get the markings and colors they want, unlimited equine center horses, etc)

I think a good way to help with the over population of horses (because that is what it is really, too many horses, not enough buyers) would be to bring in "pet" homes of sorts. A place where you could "sell" your horses (price could just be a set one, say $1500?) and they would be removed from the game. That way horses that won't sell have a place to go. They're removed from the system, freeing up space in players stables AND getting rid of horses no one wants. 

I know I would totally use this option right now. i have plenty of decent (not great but not horrid) horses for sale that would really help a new breeding program, and yet no bids. It IS annoying sometimes. 

<sup>That's essentially what the Rescue Centre is for Maylyn, only you have to pay a fee to abandon it. Unwanted horses are deleted after 3 days of being in the rescue. 

Windpsun pretty much covered it, a lot of the horses for sale are just not what people are looking for. I breed showing horses and have all but given up on using the horse search for new stock with all the cubed and cross-discipline horses. I pretty much only buy from certain breeders if I catch an advertisement in the forums. I also don't have the space to buy a lot of horses after hoarding new stock at the start of the recode, and don't have the time to raise them all either - especially as they won't sell and I refuse to put them in the rescue.  A lot of people also breed within own herds and don't have an interest in bringing in new horses because they have plenty of their own, or their standards are so high that no other player has met them yet (i.e 90% confo, 1k+ stats unrelated horses), hence lack of available horses to buy. There's also an overpopulation of cheap, same lineage horses, yeah they're nice and all but there's a huge inbreeding/linebreeding/overbreeding stigma in a lot of players that's restricting the market. 

There's not really a common goal for people to breed for, and giving how punishing the system is for making a treating or breeding mistake, it's very easy to cut yourself off from the wider market. If you cube for overall stats for example, you'll struggle to sell to a showing home, if it's a plain colour or low conformation, you won't sell that horse to a confo or colour breeding home either, even if it had 3k stats. I hate to buy cubed horses because I don't want to invest the time in bringing the non-speciality stats down over the next three generations and have unshowable horses as a result or having to pay for an expensive double conversion that probably isn't worth it. I would rather breed my 1k stat horse with a 800 stat foundation and take a stat hit than breed it to a 2k stat horse with 100+ non speciality stats and ruin my showing herd for a couple generations.</sup> 

i have been haveing trouble trying to sell a black friesian mare any one want her ???

Last edited on 2018-08-14 at 16:35:02 by kitt

I’ve found if I just have my horses for sale it takes a long time to sell them. I occasionally put horses in the auction and have sold quite a few that way but I seem to be the only person who uses it! However if I put them on market place they tend to sell quickly!