Anonymous asked: I'd like to ask your opinion on an issue that seems rather prevalent. As follows: Person has difficult time selling horse. Trainer offers to take it on consignment "on the cuff," selling the horse and receiving a commission. However, instead they hang on to it as long as possible, racking up bills for feed, training and entries. The owner calls to try to end the deal, and gets nailed with bills more than the value of the horse. The trainer then takes ownership. Are you familiar? Thoughts?
I am all too familiar with this only because I watched it happen more than a handful of times. Unfortunately, there is literally nothing you can do, no action you can take except to let everyone know that this trainer a manipulative money grubbing assmunch… If you signed a contract you’re stuck to it UNLESS she did things, or fed food you didn’t agree to specifically agree to and is charging for now… If you can prove that then you can go to small claims or at least threaten it with a letter from your attorney. From experience, people like that will cave at the thought of bad publicity and lawyer fees. Offer her a fair agreement first, follow suit with a letter from your attorney. That’s a risky business situation, unless you can really monitor how someone is trying to sell your horse it’s way to easy to be screwed and for some reason horse dealers are the MOST shady.
@talkdontchangeathing said:
you should probably put in the contract that the it’s only valid for x amount of months, that way if your horse doesn’t sell you have to write up another one and can change things about it
… I agree 100% with this.
