Naming and shaming - want a chuckle, please read on!!

[chameleon]

Just following on from SarahX's post…..sometimes we don’t need to say anything and just let the responses on H&H forum say it all!!

Below are some extracts from the H&H forum – last week I posted a thread asking for recommendations in Essex / Suffolk / Norfolk. As part of the thread I asked if anyone had any experience of Crown Equines as I was interested in a horse they had advertised but that the advert said it was a private sale not a trade sale….the following is how the thread panned out!


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17-06-10, 07:32 AM
#8

54321
Foal

Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 16 Re: Dealers in Essex / Suffolk / Norfolk - Help!

hello
we are crown equines we are small dealers but poacher(bay gelding 16 hands)is a personal horse of ours that we have had for years and the reason we are selling him is that he isnt going to be big enough for me so that is why the advert says private because he is our personal horse we don't have anything to hide and he is a very genuine young horse
many thanks
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Ok, fair enough I thought, I was being too sensitive following a bad experience with a dealer last year, but then I thought that I recognised the user name 54321 and lo and behold I found this thread posted back in Feb in response to another thread asking for recommendations:


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19-02-10, 05:29 PM
#6

54321
Foal

Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 16 Re: Dealer recommendations?

i used crown equines in essex they were very helpful honest and tried their hardest to suit the horse to the rider.i bought a fantastic coloured cob of off them and completely was as descirbed i would recomened them also their number is 07809834852 if you would like to contact them

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I can understand why someone would do this – its good, free advertising – but its not really cricket is it!!

 

[spotty_pony]

I would delete this if I were you.

 

[chameleon]

Do you think? Its not my words....I'm just relaying what they said...

 

[china]

i wouldnt worry about deleting, theres nothing stopping anyone searching that last thread! and if there gona post something on a public forum then more fool them. theyl soon get caught out, and youv not said anything bad, if admins got a prob with it then theyl remove it. i dont use dealers just usually because they are to good to be true.

 

[Thelwell_Girl]

That kind of stealth marketing seems to be rife amongst the boards these past few days!

 

[Rache]

naughty them, well done for shaming them

 

[china]

someone has done it on a thread bellow about naturual horsemanship. they put that they had been somewhere amazing in spain doing NH and gave details of it and asked if anyone has been there and they ovbiously forgot to change username because they replied to there own thread say "i have, pure bliss" duuuurrrr!

 

[Ranyhyn]

I happilly shop stealth marketers, I think I have "had" 3 or 4 now. Sorry but stump up the cash to advertise - or at least do it cleverly, making every post about promoting a product - schoolboy error!!

 

[ISHmad]

someone has done it on a thread bellow about naturual horsemanship. they put that they had been somewhere amazing in spain doing NH and gave details of it and asked if anyone has been there and they ovbiously forgot to change username because they replied to there own thread say "i have, pure bliss" duuuurrrr!

Haven't caught up with that thread yet but that's hilarious. More fool them LOL.