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Angie
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Username: Ajudson1
Post Number: 723
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, Sep 2, 2006 - 9:57 am: |   |
I posted one of my horses for sale on Agdirect.com yesterday.
This morning I have an interested buyer who wants to call me, have my address and is willing to send someone to pick up my horse and haul him to Canada! Claims he is for her daughter who lives in Canada, and she lives in the states. And she, the buyer, is deaf and dump...her words, not mine.
Anyone ever run into such a thing?!
My address in on the listing and my email.
Me thinks I should keep my horses under lock and key now. Reminds me of an incident when my best friend and I were kids. A guy, known to buy horses for slaughter, tried to offer my 12 year old friend money for her horse....away from her parents!!! She told him NO, so finally he approached her dad, and got the same answer. He still cruised by their farm daily until they called the sheriff. |
Fran C
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Username: Canter
Post Number: 623
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, Sep 2, 2006 - 10:37 am: | |
Angie, when I advertised my TB on dreamhorse.com several years back, I was contacted by a lady from Kentucky who was interested. I wanted to be VERY selective about where this horse went to so I talked to her extensively and she sounded wonderful. However, when I told her that a friend & I were going to take a road trip down to check out her place prior to selling the horse, she suddenly lost interest.
Follow your gut...there are too many unscrupilous people out there. When I bought that very same TB, the owners wanted to see where he was going - I was not insulted at all. My thought was that if the people were that concerned about where he ended up, then he must have been well cared for and much loved. |
Susan Jeys
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Username: Sjeys
Post Number: 89
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, Sep 2, 2006 - 10:51 am: | |
The other thing that happens every time I post anything for sale, anywhere (even EBay) is that I get the badly spelled email that tells me they want the item, to ship it now and they'll pay me double the cost with a cashier's check but I should first send them some money or some other ridiculously complicated scenario. I would just ignore this inquiry completely until they at least learn how to spell or get a cleverer lie to tell.
Though every once in a while, I like to send them back a badly worded, misspelled response that makes it sound like I'm thinking about it.  But then I block them from my email. |
Erika L
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Username: Erika
Post Number: 410
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, Sep 2, 2006 - 12:13 pm: | |
Haha Susan, pretty funny! I got a lot of those when I posted a horse for sale, too. Lots of scams out there so watch out.
I think your instincts were good Angie. We who care about our horses know that no reputable person would buy a horse sight unseen from so far away, and in another country yet.
Lock 'em up and keep one eye open for a while! |
