Chloea3
New User
Hellos I'm new to the forum but I just need some advice. This is gonna be long haha.
After 15 years of experience with horses, 2 loans and a share and after spending about 8 months thinking about it; I came to the conclusion I was ready to get my own horse. I spent a good 4 months look and finally found the perfect one. Had lengthy discussions with the owner and finally went to view her. She was selling her after a year of owning as the she was too small the owner and her husband and they found she was not suitable. We discussed that I would be going on holiday soon for 2 weeks and I asked if it would be suitable for her to hold on to her if not I had a friend that would take care of the horse whilst I was away she said she wanted her to go as soon as possible which was fair enough. So I put down a £600 deposit (the horse was £1200) and I wanted to pick her up 2 weeks later. After speaking to my friend that was gonna look after her whilst on holiday, her circumstances had changed, so I asked the owner to hold on to her whilst I was on holiday which she agreed to and I was very thankful.
I spoke to the owner yesterday as I wanted to stay in contact and she has all of a suddenly decided not to sell as she has really bonded with the horse. She has offered to give my money back but I'm both furious and heart broken. The owner has had the horse for a year and little progress has been made with the horse and she mentioned nothing about bonding with her, but suddenly I want to buy her and she cannot part with this horse? It makes no sense and it's completely unfair and unreasonable and I don't know how you could do that to someone (get their hopes up and let them down so drastically).
I have looked online and there isn't really anything protecting either of us legally, although we didn't sign a contract, my mum has spoken to a lawyer who says that I do have a case and could consider taking her to court as by accepting the money the owner entered into an agreement with me that I would be buying the horse, but it could go 50/50 and is a long winded process.
I have tried standing up for myself as I'm a firm believer in not going down without a fight. But I don't know what my next move should be, help!
Thanks for reading, any advice and input would be appreciated.
After 15 years of experience with horses, 2 loans and a share and after spending about 8 months thinking about it; I came to the conclusion I was ready to get my own horse. I spent a good 4 months look and finally found the perfect one. Had lengthy discussions with the owner and finally went to view her. She was selling her after a year of owning as the she was too small the owner and her husband and they found she was not suitable. We discussed that I would be going on holiday soon for 2 weeks and I asked if it would be suitable for her to hold on to her if not I had a friend that would take care of the horse whilst I was away she said she wanted her to go as soon as possible which was fair enough. So I put down a £600 deposit (the horse was £1200) and I wanted to pick her up 2 weeks later. After speaking to my friend that was gonna look after her whilst on holiday, her circumstances had changed, so I asked the owner to hold on to her whilst I was on holiday which she agreed to and I was very thankful.
I spoke to the owner yesterday as I wanted to stay in contact and she has all of a suddenly decided not to sell as she has really bonded with the horse. She has offered to give my money back but I'm both furious and heart broken. The owner has had the horse for a year and little progress has been made with the horse and she mentioned nothing about bonding with her, but suddenly I want to buy her and she cannot part with this horse? It makes no sense and it's completely unfair and unreasonable and I don't know how you could do that to someone (get their hopes up and let them down so drastically).
I have looked online and there isn't really anything protecting either of us legally, although we didn't sign a contract, my mum has spoken to a lawyer who says that I do have a case and could consider taking her to court as by accepting the money the owner entered into an agreement with me that I would be buying the horse, but it could go 50/50 and is a long winded process.
I have tried standing up for myself as I'm a firm believer in not going down without a fight. But I don't know what my next move should be, help!
Thanks for reading, any advice and input would be appreciated.