psycho buyers anyone?!?!

[baileyandjay]

anybody else seeing more and more crazy folk coming out to buy horses? im selling a palomino paint pony mare, broke w/t/c, ties, trailers, leads easy on the ground. lightly started on fences and preliminary dressage, has a lot of talent. i had a lady try to trade me an unregistered appaloosa mare that rears- she got mad when i said no deal. i stated pretty clearly in my ad that i would only trade for a hubby horse with papers. the lady never bothered to register her when she bought the mare as a 3 year old and is selling her as papered- when she is not! all she has is a 10 year old breeders certificate. i pointed out that due to the horses age she would not easily be registered and i did not want her because she rears and is not papered. the lady flipped out on me and said it was to hard to paper a pony pinto, i didn;t know what i was talking about when it came to sport pony inspections , then called my pony a mutt and a midget and told me she was only looking at her because she liked her look and get this- was doing me a favor by taking the thing off my hands and told me very hatefully "good luck trying to sell her" . what on earth was that about? i offered her a 30 day trail period for free, i offered to email her video, i sent her pictures, i gave her directions and the procedure for registering this pony in 2 different stud books plus the numbers and email addresses of the inspection locations and the breed website. oh it gets better she knows what shes talking about because she has lipizzaners and says she registers them after she admitted she didn't know anything about appaloosas or stock horses at all or even where to find a breed show. but inspection for the american warmblood society is a junk registery and too much trouble. did i fall into another dimension? this came out of no where- i never insulted her horse i justsaid i was not willing ot trade as the mare had no papers and reared. is this just me or is that crazy. i had another lady come out and look at her, say she was buying her- then when i called to offer to drop her price by $300 since she expressed some hesitation on the price- she started screaming at me! actual screaming- that she didnt want her and actually cussed at me. i never did get to tell her i was willing ot lower her price- it seemed to be a good match, she rode beautifully, behaved perfect. the child liked her alot, mom kept glowing over the pony. they actually came out to ride her 2 times. what is wrong with people..anybody else had this problem and how do you spot the nut jobs.. i really dont want to go through that again, it upset me quiet a bit and wasted a lot of my time...any one?

[cgipson]

There are alot of "crazy" folks out there - you found one - or should I say one found you! Sometimes you can get a sense of that on your first contact - but sometimes not. Selling horses is a trip - so good luck and be cautious.

[Bondama]

I have gotten around some of those by stating in my ads that price is firm, NO haggling, or serious inquiries only, NO kids, etc. That doesn't weed out all the nuts, but a good deal of them. I always like to have at least one good phone conversation first, too, you can get vibes sometimes that way. At least I can. Gives you an idea of where the caller's head is at (or not!). Good luck, and don't give up.
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