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Strategies for selling

#212156 Posted on 2019-10-31 07:16:40

Hello!
I've recently began putting some of my horses up for sale, but no one is willing to buy them. I consider two possibilities which may be my fault:
1. The breed and spec are uninteresting and there's no chance they will sell - I'm trying to sell Morgans which don't fit the spec I breed, so I guess that despide okay confo nobody is willing to buy bc of this factor
2. The price is too high. What do you think is an appropriate price for (trained from year 0) young foundie? So far I've only got an 1000$ offer and I can't say I'm too happy with this price XD
What do you think about it? What are your strategies for selling less popular breeds?
Thanks in advance!


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#212168 Posted on 2019-10-31 08:12:00

For me personally, I don't fool with horses that are listed for private bid. You obviously have an idea in your mind of how much you want, so be upfront about it. If no one is willing to buy it at the price you list, then the market is telling you you're asking too much. 


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#212212 Posted on 2019-10-31 13:48:10

Set a minimum bid price if you’re selling via private bid, I almost exclusively sell via private bid and it does take longer, but that way I can see where the horse is going first. I don’t have much trouble selling when I set a minimum bid, and I also include a buyout price. Typically I make the minimum bid significantly less than the buyout (I.e, set the buyout price for a long gen SJ DWB for 25k, but min bid is 10k). I never buy from private bids who don’t have a minimum price set because I have no idea what they’ll take. I do buy from those who are upfront about price and are selling what I’m looking for, provided that they seem like an active user. 

Just from looking at a few of what you have for sale, it seems like you have a lot of foundations for sale. I don’t know what the market for Morgans is like, but I do know that a lot of players might not normally purchase foundations from other players because they could create those horses themselves, and potentially for much cheaper. Tbh I find selling to be much better once you’re selling gen 2s and 3s with popular disciples for their breed who were bred after their parents had hit higher stats. 


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#212263 Posted on 2019-11-01 08:16:02

Thanks for the replies!

I'll definetly set a buyout and minimum price for them now. Yes, for now I'm selling mostly foundations - when it comes to Morgans, I only breed for western and when I'll have a surplus of good horses from clean lines I'm definetly planning to sell some of them - and I believe they'll sell quickly.
Now I have mostly foundies for sale, becuase when I was creating a bunch of horses in EC I got a lot of different specs with pretty acceptable confo. The Morgan market is currently very small - so I thought it wouldn't hurt to put a few of decent foundies for sale. It may be my experience speaking, since I'd rather buy a good foundie even for a high price than try to get an acceptable horse via EC. I didn't want to put them into RC since I don't think that someone interested'd show up for most of them in 3 days.
Now that I think about it, I should probably lower the price - and maybe set them for a direct sale. Thanks for the advice! :)


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#212280 Posted on 2019-11-01 10:26:08

Just want to say, that I love morgans. Not helpful, but yea, there you go. 


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