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Location: South Georgia | I'll start...
"...due to no fault of his/her own"
"for sale, not on sale."
"Currently running 3/4D times but could be 1D with the right rider. "
 
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| Don’t let his age fool you! |
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The One
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Location: South Georgia | dRowe - 2018-03-26 11:32 AM Don’t let his age fool you!
Yes!!!!! lol |
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Location: North Dakota | using the word "sale" when the context should read "sell"
"I need to sale this horse asap...." |
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| Any sort of plain wrong info.... 14.5 hands... |
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The One
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Location: South Georgia | shakeit0410 - 2018-03-26 11:34 AM using the word "sale" when the context should read "sell" "I need to sale this horse asap...."
Totally! I have a Master's in English, though, so I guess I generally assume I am super sensitive to things like that. I have noticed the sale/sell misuse seems to be somewhat regional. It frustrates me as well. |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| "1D Potential" |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Approved home Only
My loss is your gain
price will increase with more riding
selling to a good home only |
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Married to a Louie Lover
Posts: 3303
| Grammar in general, poorly formatted, runon sentences/no punctuation.
Sale/sell is a pet peeve. |
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Location: North Dakota | Your not going to want to pass this one by.....
You're...please people!!
YOU ARE= you're
I'm now frowning at my computer.....
Oh and put the dang price on-nothing truly is a secret anymore-if you don't put the price on, someone is going to make up a good story to tell anyway.
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| I always keep in the back of my mind that if the horse was a truly a nice barrel horse the seller wouldn't sell. There is always a reason for the sale. period. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I hate the private treaty, just tell the price..
Here is your once in a lifetime mare/gelding. |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | Early in the ad...
Downsizing, no time!!!
Later in the ad...
Will trade |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | geronabean - 2018-03-26 10:55 AM Early in the ad... Downsizing, no time!!! Later in the ad... Will trade
LOL, will trade when they dont have time for the one they are selling, makes you think hummm whats wrong with the one they are selling if willing to trade.  |
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Location: Arizona | My peeves usually have to do with grammatical errors, too. Sale/sell, etc. Also incorrectly using "by" and "out of" for sire and dam. "Own son" or "own daughter" kind of irritate me, too. As opposed to what? A step son or daughter? And saying a horse is fill-in-the-bloodline-bred when it has one cross to the mentioned horse 4+ generations back. |
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The One
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Location: South Georgia | Southtxponygirl - 2018-03-26 11:54 AM I hate the private treaty, just tell the price..
Here is your once in a lifetime mare/gelding.
Yes, I totally agree! I may be a very serious buyer, but I am also somewhat shy in contacting people. I do not want to email someone to find out the price is above my budget. Just tell me the price in the ad! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | horsegirl - 2018-03-26 10:58 AM Southtxponygirl - 2018-03-26 11:54 AM I hate the private treaty, just tell the price..
Here is your once in a lifetime mare/gelding. Yes, I totally agree! I may be a very serious buyer, but I am also somewhat shy in contacting people. I do not want to email someone to find out the price is above my budget. Just tell me the price in the ad!
Exactly, If I dont see a price then I move on to something that tells me I can think about this one.  |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| More in the pleasure or halter world but putting that a horse is "Typey" - anybody ever seen that one? |
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Location: N Texas | When the ad is written from the horse's point of view. "I'm a super sweet boy, my human just had a baby and has no time for me :(" Just dumb stuff like that.
I once saw an ad on Facebook that was just a photo of the horse with a caption of "message for info". Ok, I'm not messaging you to find out the sex, age, height, training, price, etc of the horse.
Also people who try to sound clever or "horsey" and use more words than necessary. For example "walking on iron all the way around". Just say the horse is shod. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I really like when they state the lower price is good for “this week only”, “price will go back up on Monday”.... if nobody is buying it at your reduced price, why would they buy it back at full price?
I just had a horse for sale, and was being offered a trade from a gal that was selling because she needed to cut back on her feed bill... ummm.... that’s peculiar. |
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