URGENT: INFO REQUIRED:BOUGHT A HORSE FROM TELFORD, SHROPSHIRE, THAT WAS MISDESCRIBED?

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I am urgently appealing for information of anyone that has had any dealings with a horse dealer posing as private seller in Deep Fields, Telford. Please pm me with any info. A horse has been sold that is beyond dangerous, is lame and passport has been tampered with. The horse was sold as a genuine allrounder and safe for novices. The horse is also at least 6 years older than advertised. Seller will not take calls, hangs up, and I am now assiting Trading Standards with their enquiries. Thanks
 
Sorry to hear you've been done. Get printouts of any adverts they have on the internet, may help to prove they are selling more than a private seller would. Google their tel no may throw up other adverts. Let us know how you get on. I had something similar happen to me some years ago. Was sold a dangerous pony described as suitable for a novice !
 
Thanks, we have all the adverts and have found 7 so far. It is so frustrating when they will not answer the phone and just hang up. The horse is so dangerous, it has bolted in hand, gone throw fences, bronced someone off and kicked them whilst on the floor. Not to mention names in passport have been scrubbed out with permanant market, to top things off the so called 'novice ride' is crippled lame
 
Get a letter sent to them first thing Monday by recorded delivery outlining what's wrong with the horse and tell them you want a full refund or you will take further action. Give them a short period of time to reply. Use the usual phrases such as Not Fit For Purpose etc and despite what they are saying they are Dealers due to the number of horses they are selling so Sale of Goods Act can be quoted. Consumer Direct should be able to give you correct wording for your letter.
I'm presuming the horse may have been drugged when you tried it or had been worked hard/not given water to subdue it. Are you an experience horse person/ did you take someone knowledgeable with you to view it? Is there a possibility it's just very unsettled and now lame due to going through a fence?
 
Horse was not tried as it was advertised as a bombproof horse for hacking, lady has MS so cannot travel far. Horse not vetted. Have receipt and copy of advert. Horse is 1 hand bigger than described, older, lame and naughty. She is silly for buying blind, but still this is fraud and they knew exactly what they were doing.
 
I live in this area and don't know exactly where it is ( does that make sense?)
Can you PM me more details please? I might be able to find out more for you
 
essexgirl said:
Horse was not tried as it was advertised as a bombproof horse for hacking, lady has MS so cannot travel far. Horse not vetted. Have receipt and copy of advert. Horse is 1 hand bigger than described, older, lame and naughty. She is silly for buying blind, but still this is fraud and they knew exactly what they were doing.
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What a shame the buying didnt know what they were doing!!
 
OP is either a 'troll', or just a plain silly for buying untried/un-vetted, regardless of the circumstances. If the rider suffers from MS surely that would be even more reason to do the above?!

You will have to prove it was a dealer, then you may have some recourse through Trading Standards. However I imagine this may be a lengthy and costly process, and have no idea how you would go about it.

Either the BHS (if gold member) or the CAB may be able to advise.
 
I'm sorry but this was completely stupid, if the lady has MS and you were after a safe hack than it should of been of upmost importants to have made sure this horse was suitable. They/u however only have their selfs to blame I'm afraid and couldn't of been any more stupid if u tried.
 
Do you have a description of the horse - mare/gelding, height, colour, name or name in passport, microchip????? A little thin on info if you want people to identify the horse.

If it was advertised as a private seller, how do you now know its a dealer?

If you have any phone numbers then google and take hard copies of anything that you find. A dealer I believe is a nyone shown to sell more than 3 or 4 horses a year. Trading Standards should know this.

Whilst is is very sad that anyone could sell a horse to anyone knowing the damage that it could do, and especially to someone with MS, I do wonder at the sanity of buying a horse, unseen and unvettted just because someone unknown says its bombproof. I would have thought that it was even more necessary to take these simple precautions. I fear that the person has limited the action ( legal) that they can take because of this.

And what about the poor old horse? No doubt it will simply do the rounds for awhile before it really hurts someone, or is the person with MS keeping it and having it pts or retrained?
 
I can assure you I am not a troll, Why would I want to waste my time? I just asking for anyone with similar experiences.....I am not the buyer, I am an experienced horse woman assisting the buyer in getting justice. Yes silly buying blind, but it does happen. Many people buy furniture from the internet, there is no excuse when it arrives broken or misdecribed! These people are criminals and need to be prosecuted
 
Happy hooves, the sellers have various adverts connected to their telephone numbers. 7 at the moment. All adverts read the same i.e sad sale due to change in circumstances. Five star home a must. In my book this is deception. The registered first owner has been contacted to no avail
 
Thank you slighted foxed. I am going to post on facebook pages too. Is there anyone from that area that can give me some facebook pages that may be useful? The more evidence we have the better chance we have of saving others from this terrible mess
 
Happyhooves the horse may be fine if the people were stupid enough to buy unseen / untried etc I would question their capabilities to look after said horse or knowledge to know what they are doing full stop.
I do feel for the horses in cases like this which is how I came across most of my horses, I don't buy I get the so called nutty or head case horses only to find out 99% of the time it's the owners.

You can not describe buying a horse who has their own personality and needs to be suited to the rider as the same as a piece of funiture. I'm shocked
 
thatsmygirl, believe me I have been around horses now for 30 years, having competed to a high level. I have this horse on livery with me in a professional yard, I have never known/seen a horse with behaviour like this in all my life! It is damn right evil, we are not just typical 'novice numpties'. I do not expect a 13 year old cobby 'happy hacking super safe horse' to bronc when the rider get on to the point them eat dirt, and then it comes back to kick, no matter what the circumstances
 
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