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Gerilew

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Has anyone experienced agreeing a price and then being told the following day that the deal is off as she has lots of interested viewers and I dictated the price to her in the first place !! Not happy :(
 
Gerilew said:
Has anyone experienced agreeing a price and then being told the following day that the deal is off as she has lots of interested viewers and I dictated the price to her in the first place !! Not happy :(
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Cest la vie unfortunately.
Difficult to comment without knowing the full story but if you like the horse then you could always up the offer
 
Hmmm this is annoying..but if no money had exchanged hands there is nothing you can really do :(

Did you give a deposit for the set price?

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No it was all agreed Sunday evening and I offered to pay deposit by bank transfer but she wanted cash ! And I didn't get chance to make further offer she was quite aggressive when I finally got an answer off the following evening. Apparently I was "conducting proceedings to suit myself" as I told her I could only organise the vetting for this Friday
 
this happend to me afew years ago with a tackshop and saddle.

i rang to to see if they had this particular saddle, they said they did and told me the price. Drove to the tackshop picked the saddle up, price tag was correct to what id been told, went to pay and was told it was £70 more than the price!

needless to say i didnt by it and never went back there again, it was a completely wasted trip.
 
I have walked away ! Just asking if it is common practice this is my first venture into the horse buying world and its been a headache so far :(
 
I don't think it's common practice for people to change their mind about price, but around a 50/50 chance of the seller being a knob unfortunately. There are just a lot of unpleasant people in the world.

It's one of the downsides of having a vetting, that if the seller is offered a definite sale "right now" they're going to take that, over a potential sale next week if the horse passes a vetting. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a vetting, just that you'll have to be patient and hope for the best. The seller being a knob about it is unfair and unnecessary, maybe they feel guilty and are taking it out on you. But it isn't unfair to sell to someone else. If you decided not to buy the horse after the vetting, the seller would have possibly lost the other buyer by then, so it isn't fair to expect them to wait for you.
 
It's not common practice for a seller to be rude (although people are rarely rude without antagonism, it does happen of course). However if you have haggled on the price and the buyer has interested parties willing to pay the asking price, then this situation isn't out of the question, particularly as no deposit has been paid.

In your situation I would be upset and definitely not happy to have been spoken to in such a rude manner, but would accept that the buyer had better offers.
 
Any witnesses? A verbal contract is as binding as a written one but proving it is the problem. If you offered and he/she accepted in front of witnesses I would tell him/her so and see if that focusses his mind
 
Hate to say it but it is not only sellers that can be difficult. Buyers can be a nightmare too!! Walk away - you still have your money and maybe it is for the best.
 
JillA said:
Any witnesses? A verbal contract is as binding as a written one but proving it is the problem. If you offered and he/she accepted in front of witnesses I would tell him/her so and see if that focusses his mind
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Whose going to enforce a verbal contract when a seller changes her mind ?
The only loss OP has suffered is her time and fuel .
Might be worth a trip to small claims court if life is real boring and there's nothing more fun to do .
Just move on OP horse buying is a nightmare you just have to go through it .
 
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