What's fair? - thoughts please (long)

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A owns a pony her daughter has outgrown. B has a daughter who rides A's pony. B offered originally to have pony on loan and then full livery at a local yard but on hearing how much time and money that would cost opted out, pony lives out at grass at A's yard and rider comes over several times a week. Only contribution is for the occasional trim. C teaches B's daughter at A's yard. C has a daughter and a pony. Still with me so far?

Pony Club camp looms. A's daughter grew out of Junior camp years ago so A has no reason to go. Last year A took the pony to camp every day for B's daughter to ride (no option for it to stay), left the trailer for them and came home, then went back to pick up pony and trailer. Total driving time of over 3 hours per day. This year as C's daughter is going to camp it came about that C's pony would come to A's yard and both ponies would be brought in to a home paddock so that they could be kept clean and more appropriately fed for the work of camp. The C's partner would come over and pick up both ponies and B and her daughter and take them to camp where he would be staying all day as he was needed as the responsible adult for C's daughter. C's partner's car and trailer stay at A's yard for convenience over night at this time.

A supplied hard feed and hay, and whilst the ponies were at camp during the day also supplied hay, water buckets, mucking out kit.

So in this little round robin is all fair financially or would you see that any money or favours needed to change hands? These were some of my wonders: Should A be paying C's partner fuel money? Should C be paying for the feed and hay eaten by her pony? Should B be paying petrol money and the additional feed cost?

What is your opinion?
 
Well I can't see that A should be paying anything! Perhaps B needs to talk to C/C's partner and say that if they will provide the fuel she will provide the extra feed/hay. Then B pays A for extra feed. I presume that A will still be happy to do the work involved as it is her pony on her yard.
 
just had that feeling i was back in my maths exam................if A walks at 6 miles an hour and travels 38 min and costs B so much then what is the square root of C :)

B should either pay C for fuel cost and pay a bit extra to feed pony number 2 to A or say to C that they will pay the extra feed for extra pony as C is using diseal to tow

A should get a bit for the feed from either B or C........its up to B to sort out fuel with C.

A shouldn't have to pay to take pony. if B thinks this is a bum deal then B needs to find new pony and pay real costs like the rest of us. (sorry that sounded a bit twisted and bitter.......i am really just twisted:))
 
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Ditto Pearl! I don't see why A should pay anything? from what I can gather it's B who gets all the gain from the pony so technically payment should be between B and C as far as I can see. I think B would owe C for fuel and C would owe A for feed so (this is becoming like algebra!!) if fuel cancels out feed then from what I can see B owes A for extra feed?
 
i think unless the camp was a's idea and they said that b had to take the pony on camp then b should be paying petrol money and any extra costs for camp food. the only costs covered by a should be basic feeding and basic care of a's pony and basic care of c's pony over night. eg check on and water. why hasnt a sold pony? b should be paying for any costs they create extra to basic riding and schooling of pony.
 
i would wonder is B short of cash ?or just tight!! as to get the answer and then work out if A is being genrous or being taken advantage of ....
 
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A - pay nothing

B - pay towards fuel (or equivalent something if you're gonna get legal!)

C - should pay hay and feed for pony as they would anyway if pony was at their home? (Or B could pay this as a thank you for transportation)
 
Agree with Galaxy. It seems to me as if B is getting a good deal all round and that A is being too kind for his/her own good.
 
So in this little round robin is all fair financially or would you see that any money or favours needed to change hands? These were some of my wonders: Should A be paying C's partner fuel money? No Should C be paying for the feed and hay eaten by her pony?Yes Should B be paying petrol money and the additional feed cost? Yes

What is your opinion?

The petrol cost is the biggie to me. I presume B is paying the fees for the daughter to go to the camp? I think B should offer to pay 1/2 the petrol (C might refuse the offer since they are going anyway, but its always manners to offer).

By the same token I think B should offer to pay the additional feed required for the camp, but A may decide to provide it for free since their pony is getting to have an enriched time and at the end of the day if they are ponies we aren't talking a huge amount of food.

All of the above is assuming some other deal or offers of the ilk above haven't been made already.

Classic case of miss-communications I suspect.
 
I don't think that A should pay anything unless it was her who wanted the pony to be taken to camp.

B should pay towards fuel and feed because they are benefiting from this.

C could possibly pay a bit towards food to A, but it would be nice if B paid this on C's behalf as they seem to be the party benefitting most from this arrangement.
 
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