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Originally posted by goatfarmnga
a nice american lady in the DR told me she paid $1600 for her horse in DR...I contacted a person who had horses for sale in a DR paper and she had 7 nice horses, 2 saddles, tack etc for $RD25,000 in the paper That is about $1000 for 7 horses..see my point? Americans have to pay the big $$$
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I only paid $3600 pesos for a horse and saddle (a western saddle not like those used in the campo) and it was one of the bigger horses around about 4 years ago (peso was about 16= $1USD). I ended up selling it back to the owner when I left for $3000 including saddle. I also paid a 95 year old man $100 pesos a month for allowing my horse to graze and drink on his land, this included a boy to fetch my horse when I needed it.
Not a bad deal if you ask me. Of course I had confianca with these people as I was living amongst them and I had people on my side making sure I didn't get ripped off. I did get a lot of offers from people willing to sell me their horse, but they asked too much.