Best reasons someone has thought you’re a time waster ?

[Iloveeverycat]

Although many , many genuine time wasters do exist (I’ve part loaned horses out before so have lived through the trauma) , I’ve noticed that there now seems to be this idea amongst people selling horses , boxes , trailers etc that people should take their word for everything and just turn up to buy something and take it without asking any questions and anyone who doesn’t do this is a time waster.

would love to hear some silly reasons people have thought/ said you’re a time waster ?

here are mine :

1) asked someone selling a 3.5t box to take it to a weigh bridge as they didn’t have a certificate , it was huge and that model was known to be over weight

2) didn’t go through with the purchase of a box after paying for a mechanic inspection myself , as the mechanic found various issues including part of the engine being attached by a cable tie

3) asking questions about a horse for sale that weren’t answered on the advert

4) not horse related , but I wanted to view a car before buying it (to quote the seller , ‘I’m not wasting my time for you to look’)

 

[Winters100]

It is a difficult one with horses, because it is such a personal issue.

One of mine was purchased from the owner of the yard where I keep them. He offered me a choice of 2, and I can honestly say that if I were writing totally honest advertisements for them the only difference would be that 1 is bay and 1 chestnut. Similar types, ages, behavior and used for the same job. The thing is though that there was only 1 that I would want to own. If the seller had been someone not known to me, and offering only the one horse, would I have been called a time waster? Maybe. They are both perfectly nice, but one (the one that now own) made me feel totally confident, and maybe had a touch more 'spark' than the other. YO still owns the other, he is very nice, I have ridden him from time to time to help out, but he is just not a horse who I would be keen to own.

Maybe when we hear people referred to as 'time wasters' we should consider whether it might be a case that the horse was just not one that they want to own.

 

[SEL]

Telling someone that the 16.5" saddle they pm'd me about was 0.5" too big. Next day back on FB page saying they'd been caught up with a time waster. If only they'd put the correct measurement on the advert ...

 

[Sossigpoker]

I put a deposit down on a horse. Horse failed the vetting. I had to threaten with court to get the deposit back. When he did return it , he put "time waster " as transfer reference lol.

 

[Laurac13]

My friend was classed by a seller recently as a time waster she tried the horse twice with her trainer booked vetting and X-rays horse failed on kissing spines on X-ray and it wasn’t a cheap horse! Cost my friend £1200 for vetting and X-rays and diesel for 2 lengthy trips for the viewings ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

I put a deposit down on a horse. Horse failed the vetting. I had to threaten with court to get the deposit back. When he did return it , he put "time waster " as transfer reference lol.

Hope you reference said a-hole lol ?

 

[KJ94]

Was selling a saddle online, someone was due to collect it but did not show up/or contact me. Gave it a few days and nothing so let the second person who contacted come and buy it as I did need the money for a saddle that fit, 3 weeks later I heard from original buyer telling me they can in-fact pick it up today, got very angry messages calling me a time waster once I told them I had already sold it since I hadn’t heard from them!

 

[PurBee]

Crikey, reading your stories confirms for me the feeling ive always had with many ads that put ‘re-advertised due to time waster’ or ‘no time-wasters’, that the seller shouldnt be bothered with, and more than likely wasting my time.

We were in the middle of a digger job loading tipper trailer loads of rubble, when our trailer broke- irrepairably. I scoured the ads looking for a similar sized small tipper trailer to get asap as the digger was on weekly hire, the trailer breaking stopped the job.
Drove to the next county to be confronted with a trailer 1 foot wider than ad stated, and 2 foot longer - this mattered as the paths we were using to travel the rubble loads were only a certain narrow width. We bought the trailer thinking we’d somehow manage, but it was a total as* of a job and we didnt complete some areas of hardcore laying due to the size of the damn trailer.
We measured our access routes so knew beforehand what WE needed, but the seller must have ‘guessed’ the size of the trailer!

We almost returned it when it became apparent how wrong the advert stated size was, but i guess if we did, we would have been called time wasters too, when that damn trailer being wrongly advertised really cost us £££ in lost work with our digger project due to its size.

Rant over ?

 

[scats]

When people put ‘re advertised due to time waster’ I generally assume it’s failed a vetting or someone has simply viewed and decided it wasn’t for them. It’s actually a phrase that’s enough to put me off contacting them.

 

[asmp]

Just seen this on an ad for a horse. It would put me off viewing:

Serious enquiries ONLY, who can offer him a FOREVER home please. If you can't offer this, please don't waste either of our time.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Telling someone that the 16.5" saddle they pm'd me about was 0.5" too big. Next day back on FB page saying they'd been caught up with a time waster. If only they'd put the correct measurement on the advert ...

I hope you commented that!

 

[w1bbler]

I got called a time waster for asking for the price of a horse that didn't have price in the ad.
I politely replied over budget (& Ihad a healthy budget) & I got a rant back about time wasting.
?

 

[MissMay]

I got called a time waster when I went to view a horse before.
First time I rode owner wouldn't get on I did and horse seemed OK but wasn't sure if she suited the job I want came back again to try a second time a few days later.
Horse had been changed to a hackamore owner wouldn't get up when I did I was bucked off upon asking for canter.

Never contacted again asking how I was and readvertised as no time waster and novice riders.

 

[jumbyjack]

The 15.2hh driving horse that I asked for confirmation of size several times was a barely 14hh pony! Owner was disgruntled when I was a tad cross with her then she said there was a chap coming later and he would know the pony 's size. Later advert referred to several time wasters, owner was seriously deluded!!

 

[Bonnie Allie]

We were searching for 2nd ponies for our children when they were younger and we went to trial a cracker of a pony.

I had spent considerable time with the seller checking everything out and was clear that if this pony did everything she said it did then I would be happy to pay her price but that was my absolute budget.

All good - we arrived trialled the pony and it had been described perfectly and matched the video, photo and references.

However, her husband was present and said “you drive a nice car, your live in a nicer suburb than we do so you can afford to pay more than what we are asking”.

This really wound my husband up so he politely declined stating that as we have twins we were up for two ponies and had set a budget for each, and that this over budget pony would disadvantage the other twin as we would then have a depleted budget for number two pony.

We were called time wasters.

I felt sad for the seller (wife) as she wanted a great home for her pony and we had really connected.

 

[honetpot]

Not a horse, but I had a large item for a friend, it's stored on my yard, that was for sale. Her description in the advertising mentioned nothing about the bad bits, and in my opinion was vastly overpriced. Someone travelled over an hour to view, took one look and left, the seller then dropped the price, even then it was more than I thought it was worth. It's now gone, for less than half of the original price, which was what I valued it at the start.
Some people are just blinkered when they come to selling, but always want a bargain when they buy.

 

[Glitter's fun]

However, her husband was present and said “you drive a nice car, your live in a nicer suburb than we do so you can afford to pay more than what we are asking”.

My Aunt , normally very smart, had scruffy, old "shopping clothes" for this reason!

 

[MissTyc]

I made it so clear when selling my horsebox that people were welcome to as much time/checks as they wanted. I had a few people who started with "I don't want to waste your time, but ...." suggesting they've already been made to feel that way. I always said "as long as you MIGHT buy it and are not window shopping, you're not wasting my time" ...

My best friend was accused of being a time waster after not buying a £15,000 horse that failed the vetting due to minor lameness and suspected foot angle issues, sarcoid that she hadn't spotted herself, and a few other points that altogether made her walk. The seller had £500 non-refundable deposit; the vetting cost about the same ... yet my friend was the time waster!!

 

[Sealine]

I was accused of being a time waster when, after viewing a horse twice in May and about to arrange a vetting, the seller told me she wanted to keep the horse until September. She expected me to get the horse vetted and then wait until her daughter went to uni before I picked him up. I said 'sorry but I'm not going to proceed with the vetting and I'll continue looking but if I'm still looking in August I'll get in touch'. She then told everyone I was a time waster!

 

[Starzaan]

I had a horse vetted. Horse was £34k so I had full set of X-rays done too.
Passed everything but failed catastrophically on the X-rays with serious degeneration of the hocks. He was six, and my vet said he’s be dead within two years if he carried on being ridden.
Took me four months of fighting to get my sizeable 10% deposit back, all while the vendor called me a time waster. ??‍

 

[Hollychops]

I have been called a time waster for asking questions that had been put on the advert. I get that when you advertise anything you put enough on the advert to tempt buyer, however when it comes to horses i get a good/bad feeling from the answers to my questions and whether the seller is prepared to spend time talking to me. This one young lady said, 'I hope you arent going to waste my time by asking lots of daft questions about what he is like when out at competitions etc. I dont have the patience to answer those type of questions'. Needless to say i didnt go and see the horse. She obviously wanted me just to look at the ad, rock up to view it and take it home!

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Many years back I travelled half the country to view a horse that had been advertised on Done Deal Ireland, as a willing all rounder, 7 year old, owned since a foal with absolutely no known health issues. It was quite a lot of money for those days so I did check with the owner that they would be happy for a vetting if I viewed the horse and wanted to buy it.

I arrived and horse in a stable rug was bought out to me, literally snatching around at its rug and generally very unsettled. No worries, off came the rug, both sides of its body had huge patches of missing hair and the skin looked very sore and uncomfortable. I asked what the heck it was, she replied 'Oh he has always had that, my vet said they don't know what it is, but not an issue'!!!! I said it was most emphatically an issue for me and left with her hurling abuse at us as we drove out of the yard.?

That night I saw the advert on Done Deal had been bumped with the usual "only still for sale due to total timewaster". I then hastily put my own ad up, describing HER ad and the description and what I actually found on arrival to see the horse, warning any potential buyers that the horse did in fact, have quite a significant health issue, hence my 'time wasting' 3 hour drive across the country to view it. Back in those days I don't think DD vetted the ads before displaying them, I got away with it until the next afternoon when both her ad and mine were removed lol! Several people did contact me though to say they had been interested in viewing and thanking me for highlighting the issue.

My gut feeling was, as it was a coloured horse with a lot of white, it was most likely photosensitivity. Either way I was not up for spending good money trying to treat something that may well have been beyond help, particularly if it had been showing signs for years. Naughty old time waster me.

 

[Nasicus]

I'm another gets completely put off by the 'no time wasters' comments on adverts.
Three words that speak volumes about the seller.

 

[Abacus]

My Aunt , normally very smart, had scruffy, old "shopping clothes" for this reason!

I once turned up to see a horse in a Bentley, as my ex had offered to drive me. Failed to negotiate the price. Since then I’ve taken the old farm Subaru…

 

[Archangel]

However, her husband was present and said “you drive a nice car, your live in a nicer suburb than we do so you can afford to pay more than what we are asking”.

WTAF. What a shame about the pony.

 

[marmalade76]

When people put ‘re advertised due to time waster’ I generally assume it’s failed a vetting or someone has simply viewed and decided it wasn’t for them. It’s actually a phrase that’s enough to put me off contacting them.

Yep, puts me right off too. To me it says if you try, or even enquire with some sellers, you must buy.

 

[Lady Jane]

All of these astonish me, none of you are time wasters! The sellers were wasting your time, what a cheek they have

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

I once turned up to see a horse in a Bentley, as my ex had offered to drive me. Failed to negotiate the price. Since then I’ve taken the old farm Subaru…

Yes same here, back in the day when we still had a few shekles and cost of petrol wasn't an issue Mr. J had a new Range Rover Vogue. I used to flatly refuse to go in his vehicle to view any horses, not a chance of negotiating a lower price arriving in that!

Instead I was much happier to rattle up in my very small, very noisy (think of an angry wasp stuck in a jam jar sort of noise) cheap little second hand Japanese import mini jeep. It hardly even had room in the front passenger seat for his rather large 6' 2" frame, he detested it but he always was a car snob lol!

 

[Orangehorse]

Yes,I know people who say that who seem to expect everyone who comes to look at a horse should buy it and if you don't you are a time waster.

You go to look at a horse to see if it is suitable for you and if it actually matches what was said in the advert!

 

[norolim]

I went to see a potential share horse a while back and had a bad feeling about it when I got there. Couldn't tell you what the feeling was, I just knew it wasn't for me. Told the owner thanks for your time but not for me and was made out to be a time waster! I guess saying no makes you a time waster in some people's eyes ?‍