What NEVER To Do When Selling

http://medford.craigslist.org/grd/1341222874.html

Never, never, never admit you must sell and put a price. Of course, I can understand that this poster doesn't want to give the cute pony away, he kind of shot himself (assuming it's a man...) in the foot by stressing how much he needs to sell.

Of course people are going to offer next to nothing for the colt! Then the poster gets kind of ruffled feathers and sort of hurt and still can't sell the pony.

A strange thing I noticed in the ad...he says he has to unload the pony and is moving but will trade for more value in training. Kind of odd in my book but whatever floats your boat!

If you stress this much about selling, it kind of stands to reason that you need to offload the pony colt pretty quickly and will entertain offers...which are then turned down. So the colt stays put and more ads are put out about getting rid of him.

I suppose it will all work out one way or the other (always does, doesn't it??) but this should be a prime example about how to keep a horse forever!