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Facebook dressage horse sales pages

Dressage Trainers, North America still has horses being “showcased.”

I’m glad FB doesn’t allow animal sales when it comes to dogs so as to avoid giving a platform to BYBs. But I think it’s crazy to extend that to every animal possible, including horses, jumping spiders and aquarium fish.

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Updating to say I’ve found a few more groups that have decent traffic and allow non-sale sales posts :roll_eyes:. I thought I’d share for anyone else buying/selling:

Horses for the Dressage Rider
Dressage Horses - Available Catalogue
Dressage Warmblood Horses Worldwide

Some of these are so clearly sales groups that it doesn’t seem like they will last long. While I understand the appeal of Facebook, I wish all buyers and sellers would switch to a platform that is properly searchable and where we aren’t all working around the rules and hoping we don’t get caught and shut down.

I’d look at the sales pages in eventingnation.com. Granted it’s for eventers, but who said you can’t find a dressage horse at an eventing barn?

I would not plan to find a lot of horses for sale on Facebook. They are purging a lot of accounts and a lot of pages and they don’t want animals sold on their site. We have been finding good prospects on the Warmblood Sales web site as mentioned earlier.

Does anyone else find the search functions on DreamHorse a pain due to the sheer level of granularity?

Did Dressage Trainers, North America get deleted? I cannot find it anymore.

I see plenty of sale ads on FB. More of them more recently. Also an odd explosion bot generated porn posts on horse boards weird :dizzy_face:‍:dizzy:

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Its funny, FB doesn’t allow animal sales, but when you report those bot porn accounts, FB says they’re not breaking any rules. So listing horse for sale is not ok, but porn on a social media platform that has minors is a-ok.

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In the UK most of the sales pages get around the FB prohibition by using emojis:
So for sale is For :sailboat:, or :eyes: 4a :house_with_garden:.
Prices are expressed in words, or carrots e.g. Low 5s, or mid :carrot::carrot::carrot::carrot: - admittedly the carrots can be open to interpretation :smile:.

https://www.ehorses.com/ is a good site, it’s got one of the best search engines I’ve seen and you can narrow the search to country / zip code / breed / height / age, the only bit I’ve had a problem with is the price range selection. They’ve currently got over 800 horses advertised in the US.

Agree. I only use it to get up-to-date info during fires. Here in my area in SoCal, we have a very active group that coordinates requests for evacuation and people offering help (trailering, stalls etc).

It certainly looks like it. Frustrating but inevitable I think.

I spent a lot of money on h4yc and paid e tra for some services and had absolute no luck - i have sold all my horses on warmbloods-sales.

I can see that. Horses 4 Your Consideration was a very successful and popular Facebook page before it got taken down and then Facebook really started cracking down on the sales pages and made it really hard. Their website is really just not easy to maneuver and I rarely get responses from the sellers there. I end up having to look up the horse on another website or maybe find their Facebook page and contact them through there.

With Facebook you do get a lot more responses but you just have to weed through so much because it is just too easy for people to click and make a comment when they are not even serious buyers or sellers. It would be fine with me if all the buying and selling just went back to the classified websites. It is just so much easier to sort through and eliminate things that you don’t want and actually see the price.

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The bottom line is that Facebook forbids the sale of live animals on its pages. So, any of the ones that are still out there are breaking the rules of use.
STOP using their bandwidth for what they do not want it used for.

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i’m admin for a couple of fb dog groups. ALL posts are now on review because people just cannot resist trying to hawk their animals.

There are sooo…… many horse sale ads. On employment pages, boarding. Pages, blah, blah. Not to mention everyone’s favorite JT Livestock. I mean seriously, TMS claims she is pulling in $30k/month from her FB content. If that is even close to true, FB does not give a flying duck about animal sales.

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If they didn’t care, then why are all these pages disappearing. You are right. There are many. And people are doing everything they can to misuse facebook for animal sales.

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Facebook gets away with so much BS that I don’t feel bad for getting away with some BS under their nose.

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I am so glad I am not the only one!!! The owner(?) of the site keeps commenting on my ISO posts and I keep telling them I don’t like trying to navigate their subpar site. I don’t know why they went with such a wonky set up.

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Ah but they do allow sales. If you are a brick and mortar entity so they claim. I cringe at the puppy mill dogs being sold by these finance your designer dog pet stores. The idea that you can’t sell livestock which is a consumable product just like a vegetable to me is asinine.

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