FrodoBeutlin
Well-Known Member
I've just received the oddest, most arrogant e-mail I've ever got!
Because of the language, I normally deal with my trainer's Italian clients (clients as in people who call/e-mail because they're looking for a dressage horse). In May, we received an e-mail from an Italian man asking how much our auction horses were (he had seen our auction website and wanted to know the prices). I wrote back explaining that the whole point of auctions is that you cannot know the price beforehand, and that the auction had taken place already anyway (as was clear from the website). However, because I felt particularly helpful I e-mailed him the price range of the horses and ponies, so that he could get an idea.
He never wrote back (not even to say thanks, or that he wasn't interested anymore).
Now, FIVE months later, I've just received an e-mail from him saying that he's just bought a 6-year-old Hanoverian, with the most incredible paces that he'd ever seen on a horse, who passed the vetting with flying colours and who was significantly cheaper than the prices I had mentioned in my email!
How ridiculous is that, after five months?! Also, the prices I'd mentioned were simply the prices the auction horses actually sold for on the day - I hadn't made them up and, most certainly, they weren't unrealistic prices that some biased owner set on their beloved horse. It's not as if I had said 'you have no hope of ever finding a horse for less than 50k'!
Next time I guess I'll just reply 'Auction over, please check website again in 2010'
Is it me, or is this really odd behaviour?
Because of the language, I normally deal with my trainer's Italian clients (clients as in people who call/e-mail because they're looking for a dressage horse). In May, we received an e-mail from an Italian man asking how much our auction horses were (he had seen our auction website and wanted to know the prices). I wrote back explaining that the whole point of auctions is that you cannot know the price beforehand, and that the auction had taken place already anyway (as was clear from the website). However, because I felt particularly helpful I e-mailed him the price range of the horses and ponies, so that he could get an idea.
He never wrote back (not even to say thanks, or that he wasn't interested anymore).
Now, FIVE months later, I've just received an e-mail from him saying that he's just bought a 6-year-old Hanoverian, with the most incredible paces that he'd ever seen on a horse, who passed the vetting with flying colours and who was significantly cheaper than the prices I had mentioned in my email!
How ridiculous is that, after five months?! Also, the prices I'd mentioned were simply the prices the auction horses actually sold for on the day - I hadn't made them up and, most certainly, they weren't unrealistic prices that some biased owner set on their beloved horse. It's not as if I had said 'you have no hope of ever finding a horse for less than 50k'!
Next time I guess I'll just reply 'Auction over, please check website again in 2010'
Is it me, or is this really odd behaviour?
