Re: RC: Buying a horse/WARNING

[Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>]

At 11:03 AM 10/13/99 EDT, you wrote:
>I recently called one of the ads in ridecamp and was one of the first people 
>to reach the owner.  I asked about the horse, TY is his name and he sounded 
>like what I was looking for. The next step of course was to have him vetted 
>which took another 5-6 days to organize due to the fact that she lives out in 
>Darby, Montana. The vet had to travel 90 miles to get there.  The horse 
>vetted out and, not perfect but issues I could live with.  So I told the 
>owner Jill Matyac that I wanted the horse and would send a check ASAP.( In 
>the meantime I had a few other prospects that I had been in the process of 
>condsidering and told those owners that I had already found a horse.)She had 
>mentioned that there were others that had called and were also interested. I 
>reiterated that I wanted the horse and that once she received the check and 
>coggins to let me know.  In the meantime I was looking for a shipper to pick 
>up the horse.  Jill offered to haul the horse for me @ 1.00 a mile. Two days 
>later I received a call from Jill that she changed her mind. Instead of being 
>honest and telling me that someone offered her more money she choose to lie 
>instead and just blow me off.  The vet called me and told me that someone 
>else had called him about the vetting I had ordered.  He gave them the 
>information! He said he thought that Jill and I had a deal and that he did 
>not think it would matter.  When I told him that Jill was selling the horse 
>to someone else for more money and how upset I was he admitted that he had 
>made a mistake in giving out the information on the horse and how sorry he 
>was.  So, is this how horse people are in the endurance world?Buying a horse 
>is a time consuming ordeal and when you finally found a horse that you want, 
>think you have a deal only to have the rug pulled out from under you because 
>some  other person offers more money knowing that a deal had been made is so 
>out of line.  I have never had an experience such as this and I have bought 
>many horses over the years!  It seems that Jill and her boyfriend will gather 
>buyers and make a deal then simply sell to anyone with the higher bid. How 
>unethical are people willing to be?Apparently these two people will stop at 
>nothing for a few more bucks! BE FORWARNED!  
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Nancy DuPont, Executive Director
Heritage Trails
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Walnut Creek, CA 94598

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are you going to ride your horses, and where are you going to keep them."
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