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Soapweed
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 12095
Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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| RoperAB wrote: |
For the heck of it I clicked on to the classified horse section of this forum http://www.ranchers.net/classifieds.htm.
I only read the first 5 ads. These horses were priced at $5000, $15000, $5000, $8500 and $8500.
Gives me the impression that some people must be doing things different than others. |
Do you realize that just because horses are priced at outlandishly high figures, does not necessarily mean that a willing buyer will automatically show up to purchase said horse? You can wish in one hand and whistle Dixie in the other, and neither one will fill up very fast.
I have read in some of your earlier posts something to the effect that you would never stoop so low as to sell a horse through an auction. One thing about an auction, it brings buyers and sellers together that probably would not find each other otherwise. An auction also establishes a market price. If there is a whole sale barn full of potential buyers, and a horse comes through the ring, probably the final bid is pretty much what the horse is worth.
I am as guilty as the next guy as far as thinking my horse is worth more money than what was bid. I've "no saled" a few in my time, but very seldom can I ever get more out of the horse later than what was bid at the auction. Sometimes buyers just don't show up out of the blue. If a person needs the money and has a horse to convert to cash, sometimes an auction is about the only way that deed of magic will be performed.
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Work Hard and Study Hard
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Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Posts: 418
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| Isn't it kinda racist to assume that a black man couldn't see the economic value of slaughter horses? But I guess on Ranchers since Mexicans can't night calve they are worthless too.
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Big Muddy rancher
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 15724
Location: Big Muddy valley
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| Work Hard and Study Hard wrote: |
| Isn't it kinda racist to assume that a black man couldn't see the economic value of slaughter horses? But I guess on Ranchers since Mexicans can't night calve they are worthless too. |
What the heck are you talking about? Or is the better question. What are you smoking?
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