Gutted - why is horse-buying such a nightmare?

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Apologies for the rant...

I found what seemed to me to be the perfect horse for me (16.2hh IDxTB 8yo chestnut gelding, advertised on Horsemart and H&H website), and I've been speaking on the phone with the seller and emailing her and he has his faults but they sound like ones I can live with. I've spent hours researching his breeding and his family. The appointment was set on Thursday for Saturday at 11am.

So what a horrible surprise to check my email before bed just now and find that the seller has given my slot to another chap as he was the first to phone up but couldn't make the time today that he'd orginally arranged for. She's moved me to 3pm Saturday.

What if I hadn't checked my email? We'd both have turned up at 11 am tomorrow (I've half a mind to just go anyway!!!).

As it's a 2.5 hour drive I'd planned my whole weekend around this horse and can't change my plans so late.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
 
hey, dont stress. an awful thing to do but if the horse is as good as he sounds, im sure yooll cope wit a hard to deal with owner.
best of luck
x
 
Thanks. It just means I can't see him now.
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Still, plenty more fish in the sea I guess!

<but I wanted THAT fish!>
 
Yes, just remember if you decide to buy him you never have to deal with them again!! I'm just starting out on the happy adventure myself. Good luck!
 
The last twice we bought horses we were really lucky and found what we wanted at the first visit, BUT when we were looking for a confience giving weight carrier 15 years ago we travelled miles and spent a fortune going to look at horses that were nothing like what they were advertised as, it nearly put us off buying a horse! We did find the almost perfect one five miles from home in the end and hacked her home, where she stayed until she was PTS from old age.
 
Thats annoying. People forget that others have lives i think. i agree with brighteyes if its ment to be it will be. Good luck x
 
Horse selling is equally as bad as well!! Ive had probably 80% idiot "potential buyers" in the past for various horses I have sold over the years. Some are lovely, others are total morons! They dont turn up, are insanely picky or complain about the stupidest things - Ive had (after they've ridden the horse) "oh I dont like chestnuts", "even though he's lovely, I think I should buy something older", "I cant afford him".

Oh and Ive had the odd moron rider like one girl who thought it was so cool that my massive (for her) warmblood could do flying changes, she persistenly kept doing them, literally about 10 of them in 5 minutes before I began to tell her to stop doing it, but ned had had enough by then anyway and chucked her off..... he he.

I have found it WAY easier to buy than sell thats for sure! So you're lucky! You will get the odd twat seller, I just think if everybody treated each other fairly and politely then we wouldnt have any problems!
 
I agree - and I totally sympathise with the selling - thankfully it's not something I'veexperienced (3 loan ponies/horses over the years and kept my last own horse for 7 year until she was PTS).

I agree in that if everyone just treated everyone else with respect andstopped to think about whether they would like someone to do that to them, things would be much easier!

I've calmed down a lot now about missing out on Lance. There will be more - it just broke my heart last night. It's one thing to see a hrose and not click with it, it's another to be messed around entirely such that you don't even get the chance to click or not click with it.
 
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