Timewasters - why do they do it?!

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Am in the process of selling my horse at the moment and had a lady that seemed really keen, arranged vetting, was supposed to be coming back yesterday to put a deposit down on him and suprise suprise she called to say all was cancelled as she had decided to wait til spring to buy something!!
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Nightmare!! Am really fed up with people wasting time! If they are unsure of whether it is the right time to buy a horse why would you go viewing horses and arrange vettings??!!
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Why is selling a genuine horse so hard?!

Sorry rant over!!
 
Irritating, but I suppose at least she had the grace to phone you and explain. Maybe her circumstances changed.

Anyway, I am sure the right buyer will be around the corner soon. Good Luck.
 
Yes at least she called but it is still over a week lost due to her messing us around! I need to sell this horse fairly quickly due to personal circumstances and people like her dont help matters!!

Just very frustrating!
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Fingers crossed a nice home comes along for him soon
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I know...had one guy emailing me, all keen, said he'd come today and heard nothing since. Didn't pin my hopes on it though, have had the no shows etc. as well!
 
I felt like a timewaster last week when i went to see a horse called Jack- but something really had changed in my circumstances that forced me to have to end the sale even though id put down a depostit. She may have felt really bad about it- I certainly did. I hate messing people round but i can see how hard it is for the seller especially in the autumn season when time is running out before the yucky weather sets in/horse starts to look scraggy etc
 
Seeing as you had put a deposit down at least the seller could see that yours was a genuine chnage in circumstances, unfortunately in this instance it was not genuine! Never mind, live and learn i guess!
 
Thats true, I really feel for you- its hard selling horses because of the attachment you make with them so getting messed around makes it 10X worse- some people just think about themsleves and so dont care how their actions affect the seller....
 
Not as bad as the people who looked at one of mine this weekend. I made a bit of a polishing effort as 3 people in a row yesterday. Person no.1 didn't turn up. No phone call, no excuse. nevermind.
Person no.2 turned up to say- ooh isn't he big ( he is 16.3 on the dot, and advertised as such)- he would be too big for me.
The last people turned up, watched him ridden, rode him, I jumped him, they jumped him, then boxed him down the road to XC course where they asked me to jump EVERYTHING you could think of, then they jumped him , galloped him, then did some more work on the flat. After all this they loved him, so I took him home, waited for them and they proceeded to offer me HALF his advertised price as they acknoleged he was worth the asking price- but couldn't afford it. I told them to sling their hooks, and not to look at things they couldn't afford / had no intention of buying.
At this rate Im going to loose the will to sell him,and may just add another horse to the collection!
 
With selling most things, horses, cars, houses, whatever, I find the people that ask the most questions are the ones most likely to be timewasters. Those that are really keen read and re-read the advert and then arrange to view and make up their own minds, they dont ask you endless questions over the internet or on the phone.

The family that made me jump 4 feet 3 on my 15.1 small hunter "to see how big a jump she had" stick in my mind. I advertised her as a useful unaffiliated jumper/WH. They wanted her for PC eventing. Their daughter wouldnt jump more than 2 feet 6. I felt like an unpaid groom/performance rider or something. I should have told them to get stuffed but the father was sort of daring me to say "no higher" and I wasnt going to give him the satisfaction...

Needless to say, they didnt buy her. She "wasnt quite right" for them.
 
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