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Location: Kansas | dawnb - 2016-02-28 8:21 AM We sold a horse a few years ago and after the lady had the horse for a month want to return the horse because it would not dance with her out in the pasture like her old horse would. Told her that we weren't taking the horse back. 
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Location: In the saddle enjoying the East Texas sky | RunNitroRun - 2016-02-29 3:22 PM
I have a buying experience: I wanted to go look at two horses about 13 hours and 16 hours respectively away. I was upfront with both sellers that I wanted to try horse A first, then drive the three hours to try horse b and make a decision. If I wanted Horse B, I'd take it home then but if it wasn't a fit I'd be passing by Horse A and would stop back in.
The owner of Horse B starts texting me while I'm on the road confirming that I'm coming. I let her know that I'm on route and that I'll message her once I leave the first horse so she has time to haul her horse over to the arena (which was 30 mins away from her ) and three hours from where I'm coming from approximately.
As I get closer I confirm again with both sellers that I'm on route and will be trying Horse A shortly. I drive down to try it and he's perfect, but he's also double the price of Horse B. During all this there is ZERO cell reception so as I start heading back towards the main route to go try Horse B my phone starts going crazy. It's the owner of Horse B calling to see if I'm still coming. She's emailing and texting me, and leaving messages like crazy. Her final email to me says something like "Obviously you were a waste of time, can't believe I took time out of my day to deal with you I'm putting the horse away and going home." This is THREE HOURS before I'm supposed to be there. She went off on me because she couldn't reach me for a couple hours long before I was supposed to be there.
She wouldn't return my calls so we decided to call the owners of Horse A and take him. So I drove back and picked him up and headed back home.
I'm about 1/2 way home and my phone starts going off. The woman is texting me she's sorry and she misunderstood and that if I came back to try her horse she'd give me a better deal. It's now the middle of the night and she's still demanding I turn around and try her horse.
I thought of it after... what if I tried the horse and didn't like her! I would have been stuck in the same building with that kind of crazy!!!
Wonder if you and I dealt with same crazy lady. Ever lived anywhere close to texas!? LOL but seriously people can be crazy. |
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| We sold a Doc Bar gelding to some "long time horse owners." The horse was a POA/QH, so he was only like 13.3, 14H on a "tall" day. They came and looked at him, round him in the arena and around the farm. They just loved him and seemed to get along great with him. They came to pick him up and come to find out he had the same name, birthdate and marking of the horse they had recently loss. This was a cool lil dude, reining foundation on him and very light mouthed and sensitive to leg and voice cues. 3 weeks later they call and say that he dislocated the husbands knee and broke the wife's collar bone. The husband was leading the wife and when she KICKED him (we specifically told them he didn't like that, they said no problem, their old horse was the same way) and when he bolted he drug the husband. Said he was way to high strung and that we drugged him. Mom asked what they were feeding him....11 pound of oats and corn a day and free choice alfalfa! They asked us if I could come ride him since I got along with him so great. We get there and he was in the round pen with another mare. He was TERRIFIED of me. I told them to get the mare out so I could work with him. They were so scared of him, they wouldn't get the mare out til I caught him. I finally get him caught and the got the mare out. He had a nylon halter on and was dragging me everywhere. I asked my (then) boyfried to get his rope halter. I got it on him and one jerk when he bolted and he looked at me and licked his lips and relaxed, almost like he remembered me. I ended up riding him. Got bored in the round pen and wanted to ride him in the field. They said great! I went to put my foot in the stirrup and they start freaking out and warning me they are not responsible for my DEATH. This is how scared they were of him! Well I rode him all over, with no problem. They tell me they had their friend come round pen him, to try to get him calmed down. I think their definition of "round penning" was just running him. Regardless, he was hard mouthed now. They ended up giving him back to me and we rode him for a couple of years before selling him to a 4her... |
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Location: Only a stones throw away!! | I sold a really gentle gelding to some beginners and he was so wonderful with them and they fell in love, fast forward 2-3 months they call me and say something is terribly wrong with the horse. I ask what the symptoms were, they say that he is standing in the pasture with his head down and back leg cocked up. I said " oh he is just resting and relaxing" they then said " i don't think so, cause he has something hanging down out of his belly" I then died laughing and said "mam that is his penis" she then said and i quote....I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING THAT BIG!!! LMAO!! she still owns and loves him....but now knows what resting is.  |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | teressa - 2016-03-02 9:25 AM I sold a really gentle gelding to some beginners and he was so wonderful with them and they fell in love, fast forward 2-3 months they call me and say something is terribly wrong with the horse. I ask what the symptoms were, they say that he is standing in the pasture with his head down and back leg cocked up. I said " oh he is just resting and relaxing" they then said " i don't think so, cause he has something hanging down out of his belly" I then died laughing and said "mam that is his penis" she then said and i quote....I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING THAT BIG!!! LMAO!! she still owns and loves him....but now knows what resting is.
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | geronabean - 2016-02-27 6:09 PM I have too many to share but I have some GREAT stories of long time friendships made and customers who make the bad not so bad. There are some doosies out there though! Had one last weekend! Brokers seem to be where I am headed so they can deal with the crazies!
I can fix that for you. Just accept my offer of Republic of Jessica dollars and I will take a fancy paint off your hands. |
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Location: SW North Dakota | I've sold quite a few horses over the years and have always sold them with a 2 week guarantee (unconditional). I think I've had one or two returned because they didn't fit the bill, and luckily, none crippled or wrecked. I could tell "crazy horse people" stories all day, though, just based on phone calls from potential buyers!!
Several years ago, I took two pretty nice horses to the Billings Sale (I was broke and needed "for sure" sales). One of them was a pretty bay paint mare that we'd used for lots of stuff. This really nice young gal rode her at the preview and loved her. I N/S'ed her through the ring, but sold her after the sale (legit, still payed commission) for less than I'd wanted, just because I really liked the girl and thought it was a good fit. Fast forward 10 years and the gal still has the mare, still loves her and I made a friend that I can't imagine life without. She's BB Just4fun. So here's an "unwoe" story! |
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Location: Missouri | One of the funny ones for me was I had a safe honest as the day is long gelding, that NEVER hit barrels and was quiet as can be going in the gate. He didn't want to hit or be naughty, period. I put him up for sale as I was ready for a set up horse, took him to meet a buyer at a local arena he went to regularly, she rides him around and loves him. I go to enter him with them there, he tries to refuse the gate, goes in and hits 2 of the 3 barrels pretty well on purpose. Of course they pass, I pulled him off the market, ran him several more years and not a lick of trouble out of him again. I don't think we ever hit another barrel in our career. I took it as he wanted to stay with me, so he is buried at my parents place.
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Location: N Texas | Several years ago I had a young, green broke gelding for sale very cheap. I was at work one day and got a call on my cell phone from an unknown number, so let it go to voicemail. They called back non-stop until I answered. It was a guy looking for a horse for his girlfriend. He never asked about how the horse rode, just asked very odd questions, like can you crawl around under the horse, does he ever get "excited", etc. I calmly told him no, since he's a gelding, he doesn't get "excited", and after I got off the phone, I was really wondering if this dude was serious, or if he was pranking me. I should have told him he needed to head south of the border for that kind of entertainment. |
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