Should I be a bit miffed?

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Have posted this in other posts but wanted others opinions on this - so...

I sent my horse for sales livery at a pros yard (he needed a more competitive home). Pro loved horse. Horse was going very well and I was asking less than I paid. I paid for advertising and £140 livery costs each week. This went on for 2 months till I said I would just take the horse back as it wasn't worth it with all the outgoings for the price I was asking - and he wasn't a bad lad!

As soon as I say I am taking him back all of a sudden I'm told by the pro that one of her 'owners' wants the horse as a ride for her but can only pay x amount (less than I wanted in the first place). The pro played on the fact that I really didn't want the horse to move again and it would be best for him to stay with her where he had settled to start his career. So I agreed and lost money for the sake of the horse.

I now see that 2 months later he is advertised for sale at double the price.

Obviously he was bought by the pro to sell on - which was not the story I was given. Added to this she also deducted her commission from the price she paid me! That's along with over £1200 livery costs.

I don't care about the money I just wanted to secure him a future in that discipline after a season with her.

More fool me for worrying about where my horse ends up and believing her.

Am I wrong to feel upset by this?
 
No your not wrong. Sadly quite alot of people buy to sell. She would have always made money from him though. She may have brought him on in the two months and found him an experienced home.
 
I got "done by a dodgey dealer" a few years ago, and i was very angry, so i think you have a right to be upset.
Bought a youngster off me, saying it was a private home and sold her 6 weeks later at more than double the price and saying she had her for over a year and had done this that and the other, sold her to a nervous novice both nearly got killed.
 
No, funny I have just posted something about my pony today!!

My daughter broke her back and can no longer show jump. Her pony is a cracking lad and I wanted a decent competition home for him. As I had no rider I sent him to a competition yard to be sold. A year later (and yes I paid livery and all entries + travelling + rider fee) and he was still not sold. I then said I was taking him back - this was on the Friday and said I would collect him on the Monday and yep they suddenly had a buyer who really wanted him...sounded like the ideal child too. They then haggled and haggled until the price was less than I had already paid in livery (never mind everything else) - I had offered the pony to them at a reduced price thinking it was worth it as I would no longer be paying out for him and no commission to pay some 9 months earlier!!. They told the 'buyers' they could have him at that price but they still wanted their commission etc.....

To cut a long story short the pony is now for sale in Ireland - at a friends yard and being competed by the Irish showjumping Associations grand daughter. Still not sold though!!
 
Seems it happens a lot. I thought a pro rider, at a well known place, looking to gain a reputation might be more honest - obviously not.

The audacity of haggling the price & deducting the commission too!

If I'd have wanted a dodgy dealer I would have found a cheaper one!
 
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