Horses sold

The history of all your horse listings — and, despite its name, not only of those that came to something.

That is the point to grasp from the outset: this screen lists all your sales, including those still in progress. So it serves two purposes at once: keeping watch on what you have on the market, and reading over what has been sold.

Reading a line

The horse, which is no longer yours if it has been sold — its name leads to its card all the same.
The status of the sale, and the purchaser when it is concluded, clickable through to their card.
The type of sale: fixed price, reserved or auction.
The deadline — the end date, which is the date of the sale when it came to something.
The price, and on an open auction an Offers link showing who bid how much: see Offers received.

The five statuses

Still running: the sale is still going. That is what makes this screen a tool for keeping watch.
Concluded: sold. The purchaser is named, and the price is the one that was paid — on an auction, it is therefore the winning offer and not your minimum.
No buyers: the deadline passed with no taker. The horse came back to you, off the market.
Deleted: you withdrew the sale.
Refused: a reserved sale that its recipient declined.

The Status filter sorts all that, and it is the one most used: Still running to steer, Concluded to do your accounts, No buyers to understand what did not work.

What this history is really for

For one thing the game gives you nowhere else: knowing the prices.

There is no official valuation at Sulkyland. The only basis for comparison you have is what your own horses sold for, crossed with what the market is asking today. This screen is therefore your commercial memory, and it is worth reading over before setting a price.

Three useful readings:

Your concluded auctions compared with their minimum price: the gap tells you whether you are aiming too low or too high.
Your No buyers lines: a fixed price that never went was too dear, or the horse was of no interest — look at its age and its genetics to decide.
The Refused lines: a reserved sale declined generally means a price the other party found excessive. Saying so frankly is better than starting again.

The filters

The sort starts on the end date, from the most recent to the oldest. To it are added the status, the type of sale, the horse's name, the speciality, the sex and the age.

Note that the criteria bear on the horse as it is today, not as it was at the time of the sale: a horse sold a year ago has aged since.

From the other side