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Posted on 02/24/2006 9:12:25 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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OK, what does Reserve high enough mean?
LOL,,,so do you think I sure needed one because my was so wore out, or because the fit was so bad:). sniff, I liked my wore out saddle:) Stanley laughed at me too when I said I didn't want to ride in a shiny bright new saddle because it make me look like a greenhorn:). You could tell he thought I was nuts too:)
Becky
That's enough reason :~D, but so's sentiment. If you can afford to keep it, do. You can't afford to replace it as a spare.
That's a really nice looking saddle! The black suede seat you're ordering will look better than the one in the picture I think. Adding the d-ring conchos with tie-straps is a good idea too. Like Hair says, you can never have too many d-rings.
They had a saddle there with the black seat and I really liked it. Especially since I've got Harley all in black too.
Becky
The Reserve is the price below which you're not willing to sell it. If you don't specify a reserve, then if nobody bids higher than say a dollar, then you gotta sell it for that. I don't know what you paid for your Wintec, but I think I'd set the reserve at maybe $50 lower than that, or maybe the same if you include all the pads and girth and stuff. You also need to specify that the bid does not include shipping. You might want to box it up and take it to the nearest UPS office and see how much they'll charge to ship it. I know that shipping depends on where it's going to, and you won't know that, but it'll give you a ballpark idea. Then you gotta decide if you're gonna offer shipping insurance on it, coz that's extra. And you might want to specify that the sale is only to the lower 48 states, no overseas. That kinda thing.
And I think you needed a new one because the old one didn't fit, not that it looked bad. It had "Character". ;o) And I don't think anyone woule mistake you for a "greenhorn" in a shiney new saddle. That term applies to an attitude and a state of being, not to the way you look. Anybody who sees you ride will know that you ain't one of those.
I've never sold anything on eBay, just bought a couple of things, so I don't know if you have to do anything different to your PayPal account or not.
Oh, and my new farrier called and cancelled on me this afternoon. Seem he's got kidney stones that have got to come out, so he's going to call me back as soon as he's back in action again, which he thinks will be Saturday. Hopefully he'll be able to get around to me the first part of next week coz Bob's feet are horribly overgrown. He's at 8 wks already and he's got hoof hanging over the shoe all over the place.
Can a guy work on horse feet the Saturday after having kidney stones removed? I thought that's a pretty major surgery.
Butting in here - you can never have too many saddles, keep the old one :) They are sorta like diamonds.
Thanks Duchess, I think so too:)
Becky
Hey, I was going back reading today's posts, (I have to do that because I miss alot sometimes:). I just caught what you said in this post. You ordered another saddle:)!!! I remember you talking about the one from the Amish guy. What's this other one going to be like??
Becky
Apparently so. I don't think they're actually cutting him, I think it's probably what they call a "basket procedure" where they go up through the urethra with some kind of catheter and snag it and pull it back out. It still doesn't sound like a real fun thing to have done, but it's better than the knife. I think they do this when the stones are either too big or are in a place where the lithotripsy won't work. I'm just glad it ain't me! ;o)
I'm having a Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit for breakfast this morning and I was thinking, can you get Texas Ruby Reds up there? We get Washington apples.
I don't know... I don't know my grapefruit - I can't stand 'em!
But good morning :~D
I guess that sounds better.
Eeek. :~\
You can't stand 'em because you've never had a Texas Ruby Red! :) Honestly, I don't like them much, either, but these are tasty with lots of sugar.
And good morning to you, too. It was 93 degrees here yesterday, a new record. Gonna be in the upper 60's to low 70's today, a cool front came through.
"where they go up through the urethra with some kind of catheter and snag it and pull it back out"
Oh, that makes me cringe. Poor guy.
I just can't imagine it being that hot right now.
The second one I just ordered is from a different Amish guy and will be like the Tucker Endurance modle and will look like this, only in black with stainless hardware, and the seat will be smooth instead of stitched...
Even for Texas that's pretty unusual. One year, when we were still living in a neighborhood, we didn't get any freezes after the beginning of February. All the trees bloomed out very early and my next door neighbor had a couple of peach trees. She had so many peaches that year that she took to leaving them on the neighbor's doorsteps. I couldn't go out the front door without tripping on bags of peaches. You didn't dare leave your car unlocked or it would be plumb full of peaches.
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