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| We all know what this means but say the horse doesnt pass to the prospective buyers standards. Is the owner then obligated to reimburse them for any costs, assuming they choose not to purchase? |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | No - it says at buyers expense.
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Location: Oklahoma | scwebster - 2016-11-29 2:46 PM
We all know what this means but say the horse doesnt pass to the prospective buyers standards. Is the owner then obligated to reimburse them for any costs, assuming they choose not to purchase?
I had a gelding that didn't pass x-rays. An old bone chip was discovered. Buyers backed out and didn't request any reimbursement. They even had x-rays released to me for showing other perspective buyers. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | No.....but the potential buyer doesn't have to share the vet check results with the owner......i think thats how that works anyway....m |
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| Nope. We have spent lots of $$ without going home with a horse. I consider it part of the process and am willing to lose $$ if the horse does not pass, it is much cheaper than buying a lame horse or an issue that you don't want to deal with. |
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| TwistedK - 2016-11-29 2:49 PM
scwebster - 2016-11-29 2:46 PM
We all know what this means but say the horse doesnt pass to the prospective buyers standards. Is the owner then obligated to reimburse them for any costs, assuming they choose not to purchase?
I had a gelding that didn't pass x-rays. An old bone chip was discovered. Buyers backed out and didn't request any reimbursement. They even had x-rays released to me for showing other perspective buyers.
I did the same thing on 2 horses I was looking at. The sellers didn't ask me too, I just did since I wasn't buying the horse and they were kind enough to take the horse to the vet since I lived out of state. |
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| I feel that if I choose to Vet Check a horse and they don't pass is my expense (and saved me a lot of $$ in the long run). I always choose to release the reports to the owner but that's just me. |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | No...and it's happened to me as a buyer and as a seller in the past. I consider it insurance and such as insurance, you don't get your premiums back even if someone hits your car. With the one I was selling, I did find out the results as they x-rayed a stifle that didn't flex 100% sound. I had never xrayed the mare as she was a cheap OTTB project. The potential buyers were aware I had not previously x-rayed and were willing to go through with a thorough vet exam. They in a sense lost money by doing the pre-purchase exam (but saved years of training, etc. for something that couldn't hold up at high levels), but I lost a lot when I had to drop her price and change her potential market dramatically. All in all, neither one of us had any bad feelings towards each other...just another horse breaking the bank lol! |
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| Thanks for the replies. I feel the same as you all. I had a potential buyer vet check and chose not to purchase. No hard feelings. They were kind enough to release the results to me although they made a joke about getting their money back with free lessons (from us). I was like..Hold up, surely they are just being funny.  |
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Location: Canada | Vet check is at buyers expense and in no way are you obligated to reimburse a potential buyer. A buyer could decide to refuse a purchase for no (apparent) logical reason and you'd be stuck with the bill.
Something to keep in mind - a vet check (x-rays aside) are really only good for the day and time it's done. You could turn your horse out and two minutes later it could injure itself somehow so even though they gave you the information be careful in giving out that information at a later date as anything other that general overview. If someone is interested they should get a new vet check.
I'd laugh off the comment about lessons. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | 3canstorun - 2016-11-29 2:48 PM No - it says at buyers expense.
Yep,,, buyers expense |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2016-11-30 12:45 PM
3canstorun - 2016-11-29 2:48 PM No - it says at buyers expense.
Yep,,, buyers expense
Not only did I pay for the vet check on my last horse I bought, but I also paid my vet to travel with me 300 miles to do the vet check as she is only one of the few I trust. LOL |
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Location: Oklahoma | GLP - 2016-11-29 2:53 PM
TwistedK - 2016-11-29 2:49 PM
scwebster - 2016-11-29 2:46 PM
We all know what this means but say the horse doesnt pass to the prospective buyers standards. Is the owner then obligated to reimburse them for any costs, assuming they choose not to purchase?
I had a gelding that didn't pass x-rays. An old bone chip was discovered. Buyers backed out and didn't request any reimbursement. They even had x-rays released to me for showing other perspective buyers.
I did the same thing on 2 horses I was looking at. The sellers didn't ask me too, I just did since I wasn't buying the horse and they were kind enough to take the horse to the vet since I lived out of state.
That was our case too. We hauled the horse to the vet of their choice since they were out of state. We didn't charge them to haul the horse to the vet or our time for it. |
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