I have been looking for a used dressage arena and no luck finding one. Willing to pay shipping for a good set. Does anyone have any ideas of where to look online or place a “wanted” ad. Can’t afford new. Don’t want junk - have that. Looking for a nice portable set that can be used and taken down and re-set up without too much drama…if not new … but affordable. Any ideas welcomed.
They are hard to find and since are so large and bulky are often advertised for the local market since most sellers would not ship. Do a national search in an all inclusive search of Craigslist nationally like here http://www.searchtempest.com/
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I have been looking for a used dressage arena and no luck finding one. Willing to pay shipping for a good set. Does anyone have any ideas of where to look online or place a “wanted” ad. Can’t afford new. Don’t want junk - have that. Looking for a nice portable set that can be used and taken down and re-set up without too much drama…if not new … but affordable. Any ideas welcomed.[/QUOTE]
The place where I board in N Scottsdale owns three and we only utilize one. They were never taken out of their boxes until one year ago, and the pieces of the other two full arenas have never been used and are in a garage on the site.
I’ll bet they’d be thrilled to sell one. Let me know if you’re interested I’ll take pics, find out who it’s made by, and see if the manager has any idea of the price.
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The place where I board in N Scottsdale owns three and we only utilize one. They were never taken out of their boxes until one year ago, and the pieces of the other two full arenas have never been used and are in a garage on the site.
I’ll bet they’d be thrilled to sell one. Let me know if you’re interested I’ll take pics, find out who it’s made by, and see if the manager has any idea of the price.[/QUOTE]
Thank you. I do not mind paying shipping if the price for the arena is good and if I can be assured it is complete. Best way to do it is have them call me I suppose and I’ll provide number if you think they’ll sell! Just PM me.
If the arena with Silverbridge doesn’t work out, do be careful about buying an arena unseen. I was going to buy a barely used arena that had been set up for maybe a year or two and disassembled, but otherwise never moved. It was one of those $3,000 arenas, but when I went to check it out, it was falling apart, cracked and chalky! I don’t know which brands do better in the sun, but this one didn’t! The guy selling it thought it was worth $1,500. I passed on it and he eventually donated it to a charity.
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If the arena with Silverbridge doesn’t work out, do be careful about buying an arena unseen. I was going to buy a barely used arena that had been set up for maybe a year or two and disassembled, but otherwise never moved. It was one of those $3,000 arenas, but when I went to check it out, it was falling apart, cracked and chalky! I don’t know which brands do better in the sun, but this one didn’t! The guy selling it thought it was worth $1,500. I passed on it and he eventually donated it to a charity.[/QUOTE]
Do you remember the brand? Nice to know what brand to avoid!
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Do you remember the brand? Nice to know what brand to avoid![/QUOTE]
This was maybe five years ago, and I don’t remember the brand, but it looked a lot like this two rail arena, the Brentina Arena Deluxe Version that sells for $3699.
