You'd be surprised..

[Karen]

Exactly - search eBay's completed listings - that should give you a good idea! Nice job, by the way!

[Suki Wingy]

I bought my Collegiate close contact for $300. It was practically new. I think you can get $200 easily if it's in good condition. I bought mine off of tacktrader.com

[JuniorxMyxLove]

I looked on ebay and for saddles that looked about the same (no knee rolls, 16.5") there were listings from $99 to $350, with some of them new and some old, some coming with large packages and such.

$200? that's more then I ever thought I'd get for it! I was thinking I'd get maybe $70, lol. Well that bumps my budget for a future saddle way up!

Thanks

[Suki Wingy]

Put up ads on several tack websites, and a flier with a picture in your local tack store and barn. I also sold back my old piece of crap saddle for $100 on ebay. Fortunately, if you take good care of them, saddles really don't depreciate.

[JuniorxMyxLove]

I'm not really getting serious about selling it until this winter, when I'll be off riding anyways. I'm just trying to figure out what my budget will be when I do get a new one. If I get, say $200 (more then I think I'll get but i can dream big, right?) for the saddle, I have about $40 worth of extra horse stuff lying around. Plus birthday money, probably $75-ish, and the $6 I currently have, plus Christmas money if I wait that long...I'll have around $326 to spend hahaha. More if i wait till after Christmas

yeah, I'm quite happy about that. unfortunately, the plain flap/pencil roll style isn't really popular right now, which makes it a little harder to sell. My next saddle actually has to have knee rolls, I miss riding without them. Haha my 4 requirements are: 17", knee rolls, leather, cheap. XD

[Suki Wingy]

Yeah, I hate knee rolls. I think they cause you to rely on them instead of developing independent leg. My requirements for the saddle I bought were no knee rolls, 17", and quality that would last. I actually have never ridden in my saddle. I bought it I think almost three years ago when I thought I'd be switching back to a barn where I could shareboard and use my own saddle but I realized that the trainer I had then was really great and the trainers at the barn I was planning on going to were really not that great and not that nice. So, my saddle has been sitting on a hand made saddle rack in the corner of my room ever since, because I like it so much and I figured I'll probably need it some day. I thought I got a good deal for it, since it retails for over $600.

[JuniorxMyxLove]

I like them, haha. I don't know why, but they make my knee feel nice idk. I used to ride in the barn saddles where only half had knee rolls, but after riding in my pencil roll-saddle for almost a year (WOW!), I really miss them. Not so much for support, but I just liked having them hahaha. Not so much the enormous ones on the M. Toulouse jumping saddles (I was looking at one in my tack shop - MAN those knee rolls are big!) I do love this saddle, though. If it wasn't a half size to small (which I could probably fit into for a while but i don't like being squished) I definitely wouldn't be selling it.

You can't ride in your own saddle at your barn? hmm...

haha mine sits in a handmade saddle rack too!. there are empty racks at the barn but my trainer hasn't said anything to me about one..maybe it's like the christmas party...only leasers/boarders get one.