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Post by lisalittlechild on Oct 4, 2010 17:50:38 GMT
some people are un believable, rang a lady yesterday over a pony 14hh nice un feathered coloured, (quite like kelly mark's American Pie) 5yrs ride and drive quiet etc etc she told me i could come and look at 1pm today i drove for 2hrs each way when i got there was a deformed lookin 3yr old 12.2hh and unbacked very feathered cob with blue eyes also a 12hh 2yr old colt which also looked mis shapen as well as underweight!! Usually someone with a word to say i was absoloutly gob smacked hardly said a thing and got back in the car and drove off!! oohh and whilst there when i asked where thomas the five year old was she said i sold him!! even though it was his advert on coloured contacts that i rang for!! UNBELIEVABLE  Rant over!! |
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 4, 2010 17:56:20 GMT
thats terrible
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Post by noodledog on Oct 4, 2010 18:06:30 GMT
you should send them a bill for your fuel cost and your time
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Post by crazyshetlandlady on Oct 4, 2010 18:30:38 GMT
Unbelieveable.
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Post by princessstacie22 on Oct 4, 2010 18:33:02 GMT
what a bloody nerve!!!!
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Post by solitaire on Oct 4, 2010 19:17:44 GMT
Had that happen last year and that was with someone selling a coloured cob as well in gloucestershire - really annoying but we just had a nice lunch on the way back so day was not completely ruined.
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Post by fleurymare on Oct 4, 2010 19:34:24 GMT
I did a similar thing last year. Saw a horse I liked on horsemart somewhere in the midlands phoned the person who was a dealer who said I could see it that evening. I had driven for 11/2 hours and called them to let them know I was almost there for them to tell me very curtly they had sold it and that they wouldn't have let me see it that evening anyway as they were putting the horses to bed early and going home. I given them my number and arranged to be there for seven thirty which I would have been there for.
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Post by kickon on Oct 4, 2010 20:08:32 GMT
maybe you should have given her a bill for wasting your time and the fuel it took to get there??
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Post by sageandonion on Oct 4, 2010 20:10:31 GMT
Did they put up a misleading picture?
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Post by mcw on Oct 4, 2010 20:14:40 GMT
the cheek!!
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Post by overatdaknee on Oct 4, 2010 21:44:45 GMT
Sadly pix mean nowt- a few seasons ago was looking for a pony when just the job came up on an internet sight, looked perfect and was told very laid back temperament. Arranged to go see him when I asked an idle last minute question about how long ago the picture had been taken- her answer left me speechless ''Oh, that is not him, it was a picture i found on the internet and it was the same colour''- probably a pic of a well known champion as it was beautiful, had to laugh but at least I did not waste any petrol. Moral of the story- no question is too daft.
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Post by lisalittlechild on Oct 4, 2010 22:07:01 GMT
ha ha that last one made me laugh, definately no question too daft, you dont like to sound patronising though "oohh is that picture definately the horse you are selling" lol but one i will definately be asking in future!! shame the pony in the pic was a beauty x x x
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Post by bigears on Oct 4, 2010 22:24:48 GMT
i went last year everywere lookin for a horse for my friend and was amazed at some of the things we saw that were said to be perfect??? parrot mouths blown tendons wrong passports one was advertised as a 16h tb wen we got there it was a 12.2 little bay mare some people amaze me
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Post by bundle on Oct 5, 2010 10:21:42 GMT
Like American Pie - handsome indeed!!
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Post by ladybird on Oct 5, 2010 11:42:56 GMT
where do these people come from...Jeremy Kyle?  ?? Unbelievable. |
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Post by hatman on Oct 5, 2010 13:00:06 GMT
Shocking what a wast of time and money hope you find what you are looking for
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Post by blaze13 on Oct 5, 2010 13:28:33 GMT
Once went 200+ miles to see a pony, when we arrived it was lame and was completely different from the picture, well the colour was the same but that was about all. Its such a shame when people do this, there are I hope more honest people around than those who give false impressions of what they are advertising. Whats happened to the good old honesty & truth Perhaps some people should try and find it after all its FREE |
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Post by pencaedu on Oct 5, 2010 14:02:27 GMT
Yes, and they're all looking for 5* homes for them - how the hell do they think they're going to give the horse a good future, if they don't describe it accurately, warts & all.
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Post by jamster10 on Oct 5, 2010 15:39:07 GMT
thats shocking ! you just wouldnt do that ?well i know i wouldnt if i had someonre intreasted.! |
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Post by tulip on Oct 5, 2010 19:53:11 GMT
overatdeknee, that is really unbelievable and so funny. That goodness you actually asked if the picture was recent. i have never asked that, I think I will add it to the list!!!!!
Maybe we should start a thread on questions to ask if you are looking at a pony
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Post by lisalittlechild on Oct 5, 2010 21:26:10 GMT
ooh nice mare Anniewrose x x details??
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Post by blaze13 on Oct 6, 2010 10:16:28 GMT
overatdeknee, that is really unbelievable and so funny. That goodness you actually asked if the picture was recent. i have never asked that, I think I will add it to the list!!!!! Maybe we should start a thread on questions to ask if you are looking at a pony I agreed a thread for "questions to ask" would be a good idea. Also to take a tick list as I know myself its easy to forget some questions once you get talking and side tracked. Then if the person selling or loaning doesn't like the 101 questions perhaps there is something not quite right and it could be time to walk away. This strategy should also be used for the seller & loaner after all the are 2 sides to every story. |
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Post by ashadow on Oct 7, 2010 18:07:58 GMT
when looking for my first competition pony, my dad took our vet to vet a pony 3 hours away, said pony passed vetting, dad said we would have him and the owners turned round and said they had sold it to a friend!! some people amaze me
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Post by loulou25 on Oct 9, 2010 13:41:09 GMT
PLEASE dont start me on this subject!!!!!! I must have drove then length of the country 6 times over and seen 100 horses before I got my mare (who was actually on the same yard as me at the time  ) However I did not meet one horse that matched their description or picture!! I think the best one was the beautiful section D I drove about 2847682816 miles to go and see! After beeing asked what seemed like a million questions on the phone to the owner, we turned up at the yard, at the agreed time, to be told 'Sorry girls, you cant see him out he's had his tea' - oh this is also after she told me he hadnt been sat on in over 2years too! HAD HIS TEA?! Surely you could have told me to come earlier? Fed him later? After much birbary, we saw him out - all 17 hands of him. In true bull-like fashion, dragging this poor girl around the yard with his willy out! I then got a telephone call about an hour after leaving the yard. 'We have decided that if you like him and do take him, we want him microchipped so we know where he is at all times' Right love, tell you what, I'll phone you dont phone me thanks! I dont understand why people lie on adverts? |
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Post by poppyanderson on Oct 9, 2010 15:30:43 GMT
I've had similar experiences but I recently asked if a seller had a video they could send me. Lady mis-heard and thought I said pictures. Her response was, I've put some on the advert, how many more do you want?! Well a, I said video but b, even if I had said photos, it's not unreasonable as a buyer to want to see a bucketload of photos. Tell you what love, don't send me anything and leave your horse unsold - how's that for a deal! Some people.
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Post by showingfanatic on Oct 9, 2010 21:24:05 GMT
Thats awful! What a waste of time.
anniewrose-we've had the same selling our gorgeous show pony. Have now resorted to a full loan and we've a viewing on saturday...fingers crossed!
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Post by alinmeg on Oct 18, 2010 14:46:43 GMT
I once drove from the New forest to Wolverhampton to see the 'perfect pony'. Arrived, people seemed lovely until mother asked which of the children was going to ride the pony, neither of them were keen.
Looked at pony, seemed a bit nippy, thought if that's its only fault could overlook it. Then the child taken to the yard decided that she didn't want to get on! Owner said you can put your child on if you like, he'll be fine. ALARM BELLS ringing now!!! As the owner was small and the pony in question was a built sect A i asked her if she'd get on it. Then the child piped up whenever mummy gets on it bronks her off!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great it's one thing to try and tuck up an adult but kids, come on. And she would have let me put my child on board, unreal!
There really are some complete to***rs out there that would sell you a pony that could seriously hurt your children, makes me evil. Sorry to all with genuine ponies for sale x
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Post by sarahp on Oct 18, 2010 15:19:41 GMT
I definitely second only let your children ride it if you have seen it ridden first! And I can remember going to look at ponies with my daughter and feeling her shrink next to me, not wanting to ride some we were watching being ridden too. If she felt like this while watching it ridden, it isn't going to be right for her anyway is it? The one we did buy this time round was a gem, saw it ridden, everything we were hoping for and had gone to see (miles away too), and she very happily got straight on him and trotted off down the road on her own on him.
I did once let her ride one without having seen it ridden - she was teenage and competent at the time, not a small child - and this was supposedly the perfect schoolmaster Open PC event horse, which had come over from Iris Kellett in Ireland. Well, maybe it had originally. I only let her ride through guilt as we were VERY late having been held up all day by Mway roadworks (I had kept them informed) and the rider had gone home...... I saw the curbs but thought well, lets see how it goes, it sounded so good. The canter was so weird I can't describe what it was doing with its legs, and when it napped and reared in its home school I told her to get off immediately and we left!
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Post by drea on Oct 24, 2010 22:04:36 GMT
reading some of these post have given me a laugh, some people out there must think we are all thick, I must admit when ive sold ponies usualy ones ive bred myself I have been acused of being to honest but i feel that if buyers know everthing the pony gets the right home and no suprises for the new owner, one instance that comes to mind is a 3yo i had just backed the lady came to see her at 9pm at night she was passsing and asked if she could just come in I had nothing to hide so i said not a problim so when she arrived my daughter who was 9 at the time went out to the feild to bring her in the lady was gobsmacked and said when she passed the feild she saw she had a rug on so she cant be that unhandled I had already told her that she was well handled and had just been backed by my 9yo daughter I also told her about her bad points the only one she had was she could be a bit stubborn about loading some days she would and some she wouldent the lady at that point did ask do you really want to sell this pony to which i replyed was yes but whats the point in lying to you what you see is what you get, if she was to take the pony and she turned up with a trailer and tried to load and the pony took a strop am i supposed to say oh she's never done that before, like i said I dont want anyone who buy's one of mine to have any suprises mabey bein to honest is a bad thing in some peoples eyes but im only thinking about the pony and i want whats best for them and for both pony and owner to be happy i dont breed that many so i supose i get a bit to attached to them but when i read about them winning in the papers i feel so proud of each and every one of them. oh and the lady did buy the pony and was delighted with her and guess what there wasent one single nasty suprise for her
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Post by mosswood on Oct 25, 2010 19:22:20 GMT
I agree with you drea I would rather loose a sale having been honest about a pony I have bred than keep quiet about a "quirk" to then find out that a child has been hurt.
I have just received a email about a pony I sold 10 years ago. The lady had just sold him to his 4th home since he left me and could have sold him several times over. When he left me he had not lng been cut and whist he was fine with my geldings was still "colty" around mares in the field. I told his new owner who thanked me for letting her know as in her experiance little things like that make a difference.
When selling my ponies I always let the prospective buyer see the pony in the field and allow them to catch them up. Unfortunalty I do not have a rider on tap so the buyers child often has to ride them.
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