For you folks on Sales Livery ?

[BBH]

How do you know the yard are really trying to sell your horse, horse sales are slower atm anyway and its not in their interest to sell quickly cos they'll lose livery money which is worth more that a small % of sales price.

Just wondering how you can choose someone to trust.

 

[angela_l_b]

I chose someone very busy with a waiting list as it is in her interest to get the commission and move onto the next horse. I know people on the list so it is genuine. We also have mutual friends who are her clients, and she will know that if she does a bad/slow job it would get back to them.

 

[Teddybully]

In my opinion you can't trust anyone.

I sent my horse for sales livery at a pros yard (he needed a competitive home). Pro loved horse. Horse was going very well and I was asking less than I paid. I paid for advertising and £130+ livery costs each week. This went on for 2 months till I said I would just take the horse back as it wasn't worth it with all the outgoings for the price I was asking - and he wasn't a bad lad!

All of a sudden I'm told by the pro that one of her 'owners' wants the horse but can only pay x amount (less than I wanted in the first place). The pro played on the fact that I really didn't want the horse to move again and it would be best for him to stay with her where he had settled to start his career. So I agreed and lost money for the sake of the horse.

I now see that 2 months later he is advertised for sale at double the price.

Obviously he was bought by the pro to sell on - which was not the story I was given. To add to the insult she also deducted her commission from the price she paid me. That's along with over £1200 livery costs.

I don't care about the money I just wanted to secure him a future in that discipline after a season with her.

More fool me for worrying about where my horse ends up and believing her.