How To Get A High Price For Your Pony

It is a fast world, made faster in recent years by the internet. People purchase and offload things sight unseen, and that includes horses. I have personally done both and with invariable success.

Are you baffled that you’ve not been able to sell your horse even though you have gone to great lengths? You are acutely aware that he is pretty much a horse without blemish, physical, mental or any other. He handles great, rides like a dream and if there had been ever an equivalent to a sea horse posture, it is him. How he gleams with health in the sunshine, you virtually need eye shades to look at him.

And with all those assets, you have priced him really moderately.

So why aren’t the buyers swarming you? You can be assured it’s no fault of the pony. Now scan the photos and videos of your horse you have published in your mind’s eyes. They’re very candid photos and videos of your horse doing nearly everything he usually does. They show him at his best, his worst and at each stage between.

It shows you haven’t understood buyer psychology. Folks need photos and videos that show only the very best sides of whatever they can buy. They don’t want to know about the way your pony sweats after a hard ride, about the way in which you clean out his stall every day, about the way his mane twists into tangled knots everytime it blows. They want the horse they are going to buy to be sparkling clean and glittering each minute of the day, and that is the way they desire your pictures to portray him.

So redo your pictures and videos. Ideally, shoot them when it is fall or late in the spring. These are times of the year when horse coats are their silkiest. Be careful about taking pictures and videos of young horses which are in the woolly stages. It is fine to show plenty of hair as long as it looks neat and well-tended. Give your pony a refined look by clipping the feathers on his fetlocks. Trim the hair under his chin, because that stresses his jowl and improves his look. Clip bridlepath cuts so they do project upwards like a punk mohawk.

Take excellent care to shoot your photos and video using the perfect backgrounds. Obviously, you are endeavoring to sell your pony, not your range or some land nearby, but you do need to frame your pony against the right setting to get maximum visible impact. The first requirement is a clutter-free and distraction-free place. That means a natural, not man-made backdrop without machinery and haystacks and barns.

Try and get a background that contrasts with your horse: if he is dark, choose a light colored background and vice versa. Take tons of pictures. Just one in a hundred might be a true masterpiece or something close. The rest will not be anything to get excited about. Snap your horse from both sides, standing really alert and glorious on all four feet.

This is bound to take a while, but the end result will be really worth the effort. When you. Show your pony in the clearest light possible you are making it easy for potential purchasers to decide whether he is just what they are hunting for.

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