Buying & Selling Horses

Information about buying and selling your horses to other players and to the auction.

Pricing Guide: How Much Are My Horses Worth?
The Public Auction House
The Foundation Rescue
The Lined Horse Rescue
Private Sales: How to Buy & Sell Using Chat Rooms
The Public Sales Board: Buying & Placing Horses for Public Sale
Buying & Selling on the Forum
Selling Your Horse Back to the Game
Basic Rules About Buying and Selling

Pricing Guide: How Much Are My Horses Worth?

Discuss the following. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed.

The suggested 2,500hbs recommended price for new creates
Why it is recommended to sell pointed creates at half their current lifetime payout (CLP). (And where to find the CLP - this should link back to where CLP is discussed in full.)
Rank Specials and the average selling price found on the herd helper list.
Things that may make a horse not worth as much to some players (uneven breeding, inbreeding [even though it has no real effect in the game], not putting a horse through all available testing.
Touch on auctioning (minimum bid 2500 or CLP depending on age/points). Link to the section on auctioning.

The 2500 HB Line

- HB is the abbreviation for the currency used on Hunt & Jump games.
- For the most part, horses are worth the create price of 2500 HBs because:
  - Anyone can make a new horse on the Create A Horse page and, for 2500 HBs, get a basic foundation horse in just about any color.
  - Herd Helpers, even colorful ones with interesting patterns, are extremely common, and vary from day to day.
  - For 2750 HBs, anyone can buy a perfect foundation horse from the Foundation Rescue, which comes with a guarantee that the horse is an excellent breeding animal and an excellent show horse all in one.

Buying and Selling Rank Specials
- - Upon occasion you may have the good luck to get, or get a share in, a Rank Special (RS) horse from a Herd Helper (see the Herd Helpers section). What makes these horses special are their rare genes, or combinations of genes, and the fact that they are often exceptional breeding animals.
    - Rank Specials are frequently worth more than 2500 HBs, but:
      - Not every Rank Special will work for every players herd. Someone who really wants a Freaky Friday RS, may not be interested in a Wet and Wild RS.
      - Basic supply and demand. There is no set pattern for the availablity of Rank Special horses. Except for the Freaky Friday RS (which is available every Friday the 13th), there is no way to predict how often one type may be available.
      - While all Rank Specials are the equivialent of a Perfect Foundation horse, some can be Exceptional Producers or Exceptionally Perfect, which are likely to be more desirable.
      - Knowing the market value of individual Rank Specials comes with practice and experience.
  - The best way to determine the value of a Rank Special is to visit the forum or the Facebook page and ask other players. You might find a player who would be willing to buy your horse, or find someone who has already put out a Wanted ad for that type of horse.
  - You can also use the Search feature to see if there are any similar Rank Special horses currently for sale, and compare the prices.
    - Tip: use the specific name of the Rank Special, like Dark Chocolate or All Washed Up in the tattoo search bar to find them.
  - Herd Helpers are 'Ranked' by how commonly the colors and combination of colors occur in the game.
    - Rank 1 is usually basic bay, black, or chestnut.
    - Rank 3 can include combinations like Silver Buckskin or traits such as Top Notch Producers.
    - Rank 5 has combinations that are even more rare, like Homozygous Champagne and Splash or Exceptionally Perfect.
    - The most rare combinations you can get from a Herd Helper are the Rank Specials. There are even some that are IMPOSSIBLE in real life!
Rare Genes
- - Very few genes are rare enough to add extra value to a horses sale price. The longer a gene has been available, the less value it has. The rarest genes, the limited edition fantasy colors, are only available for in game purchase by players who own a license for that specific gene. The majority of these genes require an original purchase with real money, and are only occasionally available for sale to the public.
    - Anyone may own spayed or gelded horses of any color.
The Market Decides
- If you're really not sure what your horse might be worth you can enter it into the public auction. The auction guarantees you a minimum price of 2500 HBs.
  - If the horse does not qualify for rescue, and no one bids on it in the auction it will be purchased by the Hunt & Jump Auction Bidder and removed from the game.
- Running your own auction on a forum thread can be very worthwhile to learn the going rate for various types and colors of horses. If you do decide to run an auction on the forum there are some things you should know:
  - All bids MUST be publicly listed in the forum auction thread; taking private bids via private message is prohibited.
  - You should include a definite ending date and time for the auction.
  - There are some players who, for whatever reason, do not participate in the forum and will not see that your horse is available. Those same players may, however, see the public sales boards, or visit the public auction house.

The Public Auction House

Discuss the following. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed.

Who is the HuntAndJump Auction Bidder? (Mention and link: selling back to game)
What the Public Auction House is, when auctions run, minimum bids (2,500 or CLP)
How to view the catalogue, use the horse search to view all horses up for auction
How to enter/remove your horses in the auction and how to place bids, including your bid watcher
What happens if you don't have enough money to pay for a horse you've won

How Do The Auctions Work?

- The auction runs three times a week; Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. You can bid on horses from 6am to 8pm EST. Horses cannot be entered in auctions as they are running, and must be entered before 6am the day the auction is set to run.
- You can enter your horses through their individual page by clicking the "Control Panel" tab, going to "Manage Your Entries", and selecting "Auction This Horse" or by going to the Public Auction House page and selecting "Enter A Horse". If you change your mind prior to the auction starting you can select "Manage Entries" and remove whatever horses you wish. All sales are final.
- You can view horses in the auction by going to the "Search Horses" tab under Community and select "For Auction" as their status. A complete list of entered horses will be generated. You can open individual horses page to bid on that horse.

The Foundation Rescue

Discuss what the Foundation Rescue is, and when/where these horses are available for sale, and how to search for them. Define what a Perfect Foundation is (minimum qualities). Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed, including the HH characteristics chart.

The Lined Horse Rescue

Discuss what the Lined Horse Rescue is, and when/where these horses are available for sale, and how to search for them. Touch on the Sales Watch List on the Member Home Page. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed.

Private Sales: How to Buy & Sell Using Chat Rooms

Discuss the following. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed. Remember that bulk of the information about chat rooms, etiquette, permissions, etc should be in the Getting Started-->Learning Your Way Around-->Community-->Chat Rooms section - link accordingly.

About chat rooms and the requirements to use them (Basic to buy and sell, Premium to create your own)
How to view horses listed for sale in a specific chat room, and how to buy one
Reserved sales: when they're allowed and when they're not, and how to respect them (Rules and etiquette to observe)
How to place a horse for sale in another player's chat room
Why can't I place my horse for sale? Why don't I see an option to sell?

The Public Sales Board: Buying & Placing Horses for Public Sale

Discuss the following. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed.

How to find horses listed for public sale using the horse search
Why can't I purchase this horse? About gene licenses and associated accounts.
How to place a horse for public sale
- Navigating to the control panel and setting a price.
- Checking if your horse is currently on the market or not.
- What the default price in the "sell horse" field is (previous price sold at or 2,500hbs).
Why can't I place my horse for public sale? About restricted (orange) genes and the 50-horse limit (across all accounts).
Why was my horse voted as priced too high?

Buying & Selling on the Forum

Discuss the following. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed.

The "Horses for Sale and Auction" forum category. These horses may be for sale but just not on the public sales boards or waiting for a buyer before being put up for sale in a chatroom.
Placing your own ISO (in search of) advertisement, and letting other players show you what they've got.
Advertising your horses for sale on the forum: listing a price or asking for offers, listing an individual horse or multiple horses by linking to your barns or a specific search.
- Offer tips (link to how to search horses page) on how to filter multi-horse search results to only the horses you want to sell, to minimize offers on horses that aren't for sale.
- Other tips, including such things as adding $ to the horses' names

Selling Your Horse Back to the Game

Discuss selling a horse back to the game. Include information on where to find this option, and why a player might want to do this (i.e. ensuring a horse is purged from the game rather than purchased by another player, and why you would want to do that). Mention pros and cons (bonus stall progress, GMTing its parents, parent AFPT, the horse remains in the game for 24 hours, etc). Tell players what to do if they made a mistake, how they can get the horse back and when the grace period expires. Remember to link to other articles/subsections as needed.

Basic Rules About Buying and Selling

General buying and selling information

Many new players like to believe that the secret to financial success on Hunt & Jump is in buying and selling horses, but that strategy is seldom successful.
- - While there are horses worth more than 2500 HBs in the game, the cost of developing the lines to produce those horses requires experience and cash that most players will need time to earn
  - Your best bet for earning extra cash is in the barn with your hardworking show horses
It is VERY hard to predict the sales market on Hunt & Jump.
- - - There are so many possible combinations of genes on Hunt & Jump it would be impossible to predict what the next trend will be
    - Every day someone comes up with a new combination of colors that everyone, suddenly “must have”.
    - New genes, both realistic and fantasy, are regularly being added to the game
    - New players, with new likes and dislikes, join everyday. Those players are from all over the world, and have unique and diverse preferences

Public and Private sales

- Selling horses between accounts owned by the same player is prohibited unless BOTH accounts have a Premium upgrade.
- Horses posted for public sale may NOT have any rules or restrictions on who may purchase them, or or what can or should be done with the horse after the sale.
- Private sales are restricted to Private chat rooms with less than 5 members. If a chat room has more than 5 members, no restrictions may be placed on horses posted for sale.
- Auctions by private bidding (via Private Message, or any off-game routes) are not allowed.

Can I sell horses between my accounts?

Selling horses between accounts owned by the same player is prohibited unless BOTH accounts have a Premium upgrade. This also applies to cash transfers. If both accounts have a Premium upgrade, then unlimited cash can be transfered from one account to another as long as both accounts are over 2 months old.