Sellers vetting buyers

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I've seen quite a few ads recently with sellers stating they will vet potential buyers and their 'homes' (I assume this means wherever the horse'll be kept, even livery yards). Totally understandable but I've not seen it before with horse ads.

I'm guessing these ads would mean buyers would have to be local, and unless the horse will be kept at home I'm not sure how much use it is? Checking the buyer is suitable and knowledgable enough is fine, but vetting the yard it'll be kept at.....?

Any thoughts?
 
I had someone ring for my horse and when he said he was thinking of keeping the horse on working livery he was politely told he wasn't suitable for the horse.

My responsibilty is to the horse
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I don't think theres anything wrong with sellers vetting buyers if they are not desperate to sell quickly. If, god forbid, I ever have to sell my lad, I would be really picky about who I sold to
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I have always "vetted" buyers. I've never sold a horse to a home I havent actually gone to see yet, the last one was a 2 1/2 hours drive away! I like to see the yard as you can see if it would suit your horse etc.

I have turned down people in the past, even just at the trying my horse part - if they havent ridden well and I just dont like them then I wont sell. My horses arent cars, they are very much loved so the home is incredibly important! I also keep in touch with all buyers (and even the next buyers!), I know exactly where all my sold horses are and exactly what they're doing!
 
We were selling earlier this year and vetting the buyer was very important. About half of enquiries were turned down on the phone. Others came and it was clear they couldn't ride. After a month or so, we decided to put the horse out on full loan instead as we couldn't face sending her to an uncertain future, and we had a lot more potential homes to choose from once we offered her on full loan rather than sale.

Ironically she went to a girl who originally viewed her for sale, and it seems to be working out really well. Losing that contact would have been very hard.
 
We vetted our buyers and they seemed fine. We visited the stables and were show a bright airy stable.

However, it turns out he was not kept there but moved to a little airless box with no windows and no view apart from a brick wall.

He wasn't fed, was over exercised and had his shoes taken off despite being told he was too footsore to go barefoot.

In three months they turned him from a fit and well muscled TB to a rescue case. He was so bad the RSPCA slapped an improvement order on him.

We had to buy him back and now have the extra bills of livery over the winter as I doubt he will be fit to rehome until after Christmas.

I am not sure whether I would be able to face selling him again and might consider a long term loan as long as it was local and we could keep visiting him.
 
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