Strangest reasons for people not buying your horse

To be honest i hate going to look at horses you speak to people think this is the one, drive 3 hrs and its nothing like they say. I just politely say sorry it's not what i'm looking for.

And what's good conformation good feet and moves straight doesn't to the next person.

Also i think its hard when you get on and ride something and you know just from walk it isn't for you.

To be honest I think its hard for both parties
 
I had a woman interested in a 2yr old I was selling. I took numerous videos, phtos etc and spoke to her on the phone a dozen times. She drove an 8hr journey to see her a week before xmas and then decided she'd grow too big?!!! Horse is now in the UAE as a showjumper and is a 16hh delicate little mare :)
 
Fortunately I have my own land and don't have to sell my horses these days but many years ago I was selling my dressage horse as I had a bad non-horse related accident which meant I wouldn't be ale to ride for some time.

He had been to the BD Nationals at prelim, had 140 points and was scoring high 60s low 70s at elementary.

One woman came with her trainer. She loved him, rode him well and got a good tune out of him and wanted to buy him but her natural horsemanship trainer also rode him - very, very badly - and then told the woman he was unsuitable as he was so green and would take months to learn to trot a 20m circle - wtf?

Had to stop one woman coming to see him who was mainly interested in what his ears looked like and another who wanted a horse that looked like a Gelderlander - he didn't and neither did his photo.

Fortunately he didn't sell and I kept him until his death - mainly as a happy hacker.
 
Best we had was a 3 year old appy that I was just backing, explained this to the lady and said if she wanted to come see him great but he wasn't ready yet to ride. She came expecting something she could teach her 10yr old son to ride on! And then got really cross when I wouldn't give him a pony ride!

I breed chihuahuas and i had a lady who I'd sent 50 odd pictures to of a black bitch with cream paws and White chest. She turned up to see her and said she wasn't black enough! Not the markings, the actual black of her coat.
 
Paint Me Proud said:
when selling my very pony like 14.2 mare, one seller came and the viewing went really well but they turned her down saying 'she doesnt ride big enough for me' - if they wanted something that rode big why were they looking at a 14.2h pony?!
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I can understand that, I am very much a pony fan but not all 14.2s are equal. My 14.2 rides bigger than our 15.1 :p
 
We were selling a young lad one time; the lady walked down the yard and without a seconds hesitation grabbed hold of his mane, put her other hand on his withers and (hanging off him) started jumping up and down !! He gave a start and backed up a step, obviously wondering what was going on ! She immediatly said "oh look at him getting nasty, no I don't want something like that"

I was like WTF ??? :eek:
 
VixieTrix said:
We were selling a young lad one time; the lady walked down the yard and without a seconds hesitation grabbed hold of his mane, put her other hand on his withers and (hanging off him) started jumping up and down !! He gave a start and backed up a step, obviously wondering what was going on ! She immediatly said "oh look at him getting nasty, no I don't want something like that"

I was like WTF ??? :eek:
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PAHAHAHHAHA :D
What a nutter!!! :p
 
We had 2 women turn up to view a Welsh D, 14.2hh, they arrived, fags in hand. Looked him over and then asked 'which one is this?' um, possibly the one you arranged to see with his pic in the paper. Anyway, tacked him up and he was good as gold. These 2 were starting to grate slightly so rather than take him to a field 25yds away I walked them up the road 1/4mile to our field, they puffed and wheezed, fags in hand to the field where they watched him go beautifully, didnt put a foot wrong. Ask the woman if she would like a ride and she says 'no, he's not big enough', doh, he's a chunky 14.2 as the advert stated. So, I said an abrupt 'bye' walked away and muttered loudly ****** timewasters. Left them walk back to their car.
 
When I went viewing for my first horse I went to see both a pony on full loan who was a 14 year olds pony (I was 15 at the time) and we also went to view an ex point to point mare. The loan pony went fantastically for me, I fell in love with him but the owners had someone come and view him later that day. The owners even made comments like they'd never seen him go off the leg into canter so easily and they arranged to come and vet my yard but later that day we got a phone call saying that the person who came to view him was older and so they sent him to her, believing that because she was older she must be able to deal with hissy fits better even though she'd only been riding for a year. Also that due to me being the same age as the current rider, that I wouldn't be able to ride him through it as the current rider couldn't. He was sent back to them 2 weeks later and has now been sold.
The ex point to pointer had been advertised as just that, along with being a sensible ride. I went to try it in their paddock, it's stride wasn't right, she'd limp and she would lean on my hands. I was on her all of 5 minutes before getting off, leading her to the yard and telling them that she felt lame. I also found out that she wasn't an ex point to pointer, she had raced 5 weeks prior and since then had been out on a hack twice.
I've been lucky this time round, I sort of inherited my current horse as I used to exercise the old owners horses for her until they went on loan and then i took mine on on loan before buying. I don't think i'd want to go through the buying process again, let alone the selling process!
 
Went to see an ex NH, 3 hr drive having seen poor pics and vids which were apparently recent. 17.2 10yo bay gelding, clean legs although had bashed its hock a couple of days ago and no vices.

What was hiding at the back of the stable was a scrawny under weight 15.2 if that, long feet, hockley double its size that it wouldn't let you touch and pin fired fronts. Trotted up and it plaited its hind legs so much its a miracle it didn't fall.

Lovely manner but nothing like as described or suitable.
 
I have had a few strange people come to view and have since never sold one again!

One girl arrived after having videos, pictures and 2 very long conversations to see my 16.1 brown dutch warmblood. Said i didn't realise 16.1 was so big and isn't he rather to brown!

My auntie had someone come to see one of hers that was a registered irish sports horse coloured mare. She had seen pictures, videos etc. Picture in advert. Won dressage, xc, showing, wh and hunted with the best. Girl arrived with her mother, allowed auntie to tack mare up take her to school, ride her and show her off, she then announced that "that was what an irish sports horse looked like and it wasn't for her, she preferred TB's!"! My auntie got off, rolled stirrups up and put horse away and just left them to make their own way home!
 
OMG - so many weird time wasters out there.

The strangest one I ever had was a lady who drove 2 hours to see the horse, she
'Loved ' him from the moment she saw him, hugged him, watched me ride him, then refused to get on! As we walked back to the yard she announced that she couldn't find anything wrong with him and he was just too perfect so she couldn't possibly buy him and left!!!

Huh?!?!
 
At least you don't get people asking if an unbroken shetland pony stallion would be suitable for their pony mad daughter to ride and if they would be ok to live in the dog kennel in the garden ...
 
Paint Me Proud said:
when selling my very pony like 14.2 mare, one seller came and the viewing went really well but they turned her down saying 'she doesnt ride big enough for me' - if they wanted something that rode big why were they looking at a 14.2h pony?!
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Ha! That's funny :). Something very similar (but in reverse) happened to Kal's previous owner when he was up for sale . . . his ad clearly stated he was 16.2hh . . . woman came to see him, walked up to him and said "oh, no, he's too big for me . . . " :confused:

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debbien said:
I've done it many a time...I just say Thank you for showing him to me, he's lovely but not right for me. No-one has taken offence, these things happen.
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Yup . . . tried many before we bought Kal and was always honest with the seller . . . reasons were: too sharp/lively, just didn't click with him (never did try a mare), a hat rack/lacking condition, bucked both me and my instructor off in two separate visits :eek:, etc.

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I have now withdrawn Kes from sale and didn't have anyone come out to see him, but having advertised him as forward going, a second pony and needing a competent rider, I was surprised to receive enquiries from people stating that they had just learnt to walk and trot, couldn't yet canter, would he be suitable and another stating that as I had put 'confident novice' they assumed he didn't do anything silly. It comes down to different interpretations of what experienced or novice means, I guess.
 
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