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| What would you think is an acceptable time for a trial period for a potential buyer to decided if they want to buy the horse or not? |
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| 1-2 weeks is all i'd need. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Two weeks and make sure they have insurance on the horse. |
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| none you tried horse out before to easy to srew 1 up |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Depends is the horse a barrel or trail horse. Where is the horse at did they take it home?
Edit to add" It should take no more then a day are 2, when I'm looking I try and if I like I buy on the spot.
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Location: So. Cali. | I've never allowed one on a trial. Come ride it as many times as you'd like and Im happy to haul it out for you to try within reason. |
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| Brief run down of the situation:
My friend said she had a client interested in my horse. I dropped my horse off at her facility in november. A week later they said they loved him and wanted to know what my bottom dollar was. Considering the horse would be staying in her care (my friend) and I wanted a great home for him I meet her at half. I stated in the beginning that a good home was more important than the $, but I have yet to see anything from them. I would be ok with a signed purchase agreement at the very least, but I still can not seem to get that. Every week I get the same line "they will have money end of next week." While I could use the money, the great home is very important as well. My concern is that I cannot get a commmitment from them other than "end of next week". What if this horse croaks in there care? What if he colics? Who is the responsible party at this point?
I am trying to be patient (and nice), but I am getting tired of this.... I want him to have a great home, and I dont want to cause issues with my friend, however this is starting to get a little fishy for me... it has been 5 weeks since I dropped him off, 4 weeks since they decided they wanted to buy him.
Mind you this horse is not exceeding $1000. He is retired barrel horse being sold as a trail horse.
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| yikes. I'm not sure about the friend in the middle, but other than that. I'd be taking the horse back asap.
How good of a home could they provide if they can't/won't come up with the funds to buy him outright after 5 weeks.
my 2 cents.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RunfastNTurn - 2015-12-29 10:15 AM Brief run down of the situation:
My friend said she had a client interested in my horse. I dropped my horse off at her facility in november. A week later they said they loved him and wanted to know what my bottom dollar was. Considering the horse would be staying in her (my friend) and I wanted a great home for him I meet her at half. I stated in the beginning that a good home was more important than the $, but I have yet to see anything from them. I would be ok with a signed purchase agreement at the very least, but I still can not seem to get that. Every week I get the same line "they will have money end of next week." While I could use the money, the great home is very important as well. My concern is that I cannot get a commmitment from them other than "end of next week". What if this horse croaks in there care? What if he colics? Who is the responsible party at this point?
I am trying to be patient (and nice), but I am getting tired of this.... I want him to have a great home, and I dont want to cause issues with my friend, however this is starting to get a little fishy for me... it has been 5 weeks since I dropped him off, 4 weeks since they decided they wanted to buy him.
I'll be picking my horse, you have been way to nice, I dont like getting jerked around. Go get your horse today... |
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Location: So. Cali. | RunfastNTurn - 2015-12-29 8:15 AM Brief run down of the situation:
My friend said she had a client interested in my horse. I dropped my horse off at her facility in november. A week later they said they loved him and wanted to know what my bottom dollar was. Considering the horse would be staying in her care (my friend) and I wanted a great home for him I meet her at half. I stated in the beginning that a good home was more important than the $, but I have yet to see anything from them. I would be ok with a signed purchase agreement at the very least, but I still can not seem to get that. Every week I get the same line "they will have money end of next week." While I could use the money, the great home is very important as well. My concern is that I cannot get a commmitment from them other than "end of next week". What if this horse croaks in there care? What if he colics? Who is the responsible party at this point?
I am trying to be patient (and nice), but I am getting tired of this.... I want him to have a great home, and I dont want to cause issues with my friend, however this is starting to get a little fishy for me... it has been 5 weeks since I dropped him off, 4 weeks since they decided they wanted to buy him.
Mind you this horse is not exceeding $1000. He is retired barrel horse being sold as a trail horse.
Something gets signed with a deadline for payment, payment is recieved asap, otherwise horse gets picked back up by you asap. Who's currently paying for his feed? If something happens to him now, it's your responsibility. Nothing signed, no money exchanged, he's still your horse IMO
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Horse should be paid in full before a trial period just in case. Go get your horse. |
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Location: Desert Land | I have been lucky enough to have a few sellers let me take a horse on trial periods. I took out an insurance policy for full purchase price naming seller as beneficiary. Usually a week is more than enough time. Try the horse a few days, see how they are at home, out and about, etc. and if you like it, vet check and buy or return. I was even lucky enough once that a seller let me leave a large deposit and take the horse home a few hours away to vet check with my own vet. Every horse I took on a trial I purchased. It wasn't like a willy-nilly situation...I had tried the horses already and really liked them and just wanted to either see if I could live with a certain habit they had or use my own vet for a check because there wasn't a good vet in the seller's area or whatever. |
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Location: Northwest Florida | Go get your horse or the money today!
I have never allowed a trial, or expected one when buying a horse. There's just too much risk. I do know that a trial period usually requires the horse be paid for first, and a refund be available if requested, so you are being extremely generous with these people! (and being taken advantage of it seems) |
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| I supplied feed for the first week, after than my friend has been feeding and caring for him. I do not know if she is charging these people board or what. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | If they cant come up with 1000 over five weeks how are they going to pay necessary vet bills?? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | oija - 2015-12-29 10:32 AM If they cant come up with 1000 over five weeks how are they going to pay necessary vet bills??
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| RunfastNTurn - 2015-12-29 10:23 AM
I supplied feed for the first week, after than my friend has been feeding and caring for him. I do not know if she is charging these people board or what.
Go get your horse! They have had more than enough time to decide if they want to buy the horse. I would be worried they couldn't afford the horse if they are having a hard time getting the 1000 to you. I was badly burned on a horse deal where the horse was even cheaper than 1000. They scraped the money together to buy the horse and then did not feed her and ran her into the ground. My experience is if they can't hand over the 1000 with in a day or two, they won't be able to afford the money to care for the horse on a daily basis. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I allowed a trial period on a young barely broke gelding one time. He was never sound again. I won't allow a horse of mine to go off my property ever again. That's not the only bad experience I've had. I took a finished barrel horse to a broker in California once. They allowed the horse to be hauled and competed on, then kept making excuses why the people couldn't pay for him. Never again. |
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Location: WI | I don't do trial periods. Give them a deadline (within a week) to get you the money or you are picking the horse up. |
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| Thanks guys... for re-iterating what I was already feeling. I guess I just needed outside re-assurement that I was not being unreasonable. :)
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