Two dealers, one horse with two names!

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Without breaching any issues on here, so no details specific
I having been on the look out (when I am meant to be working) for a horse for a friend...

I spotted recently the same horse on two dealers websites, it has a different name on each site, and one of the pictures used on both sites.

Amazing!

Perhaps dealers are becoming like car dealerships - shipping cars around all over the place.

Why would this happen?
 
I don't think its that common but I can think of some SJers who both advertise the same horses on their respective websites.

I guess they have access to different customers and it doubles the number of people they may be able to sell to. I guess as long as you buy from whoever is named in the passport it should be fine.
 
The same with different names though?
Surely if they do this with showjumpers they have to keep the same name in terms of BSJA?

This isn't a SJ, just pleasure horse.

I had never seen it before, but then I'm not always watching the market place.
 
Sometimes it happens because they haven't got that horse for sale at all. They use a nice picture and a cheap price to get you on the phone, and then try to persuade you to come and see what they have got in stock. Once you are in their yard you get the hard sell and they hope you fall for something, however unsuitable, and buy it. Neither of those dealers can be trusted, I'm afraid, if the horse does not even have the same name.
 
Not a blue and white mare, but a skewbald gelding.

I thought maybe I have skived too much todayand am now confused over which site I saw which horse. So I checked, and there it is.

One name on one, and another name on another.
Same area dealers as well. So perhaps connected in some way.

Seems dodgey to me though, especially the different names, I mean the same pic is used (and distinctive markings on the animal) so changing the name is just odd!

What a wonderfully colourful world we live in:)
 
The one I saw a while back was initially on with a dealer in the South, but I saw it on another site with both the original photo & a more recent 'hairier' one. Checked back to first dealers site & she was still on there. Price was a couple of hundred pounds more on the second site.

With a coloured horse there's no mistaking it!
 
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Probably just advertising for a friend, or one owns it and the other has it in the yard. Common practise and I can't see much problem with it! Where is it?
 
Not a name and shame, nor a taboo subject per se.

I haven't discredited either.

one I know someone who has a VERY good horse from.
 
how old are the adverts? it may be that one delaer has passed the horse to the other and one advert is much newer....though that wouldn't explain the name :confused:
 
I've seen a few horses advertised like this. I've also seen one person advertise a horse on one site, then advertise the same horse as something completely different on another site.
 
magners1 said:
Probably just advertising for a friend, or one owns it and the other has it in the yard. Common practise and I can't see much problem with it! Where is it?
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This. Plus a lot of dealers in an area would trade with each other and maybe still keep the horse on both websites. A horse I was going to buy was on two websites, and under two names as the original name hadn't been communicated and so was renamed at the second yard.

There doesn't need to be anything sinister about it.
 
Dralers change the name, age, sometimes even breeding of their horses when they go up for sale sometimes... if the previous dealer (or a private seller) has failed to sell the horse, or the horse has issues, a quick name change and knocking a few hands off its height usually does the trick.
... if the two dealers are not in any way related, I'd assumevone advert was much older than the other and said horse has since been passed on.
 
I came across something similar when I was looking. It turned out that one ad was placed by the owner using the horse's stable name and the other was placed by the selling livery using his passport name. Nothing sinister, just a lack of communication between them.

Having said that, I am sure there are some shady goings-on out there, too!
 
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