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"is it a crime"
You are twisting and contorting what I said simply because you don't agree with me or are so gung ho to do this that you can't even BEAR anyone saying, 'the way you want to do this is NOT matching your stated goals'. And that is pretty dang gung ho, gung ho enough to be extremely rude and misrepresent what I've said, and I don't appreciate it. And everyone who doesn't have the endurance to slog through my posts will believe YOU, that I said it is a 'crime to help someone who made a mistake'.
Look, if you want to get all 'rah rah rah!' responses, you need to do it in front of people that don't know how craptastic this market is or how hard it is to sell ANYTHING with four legs on it now or just go 'awwwww' anytime they see a picture of a horse. And please...take a moment to notice, that not ONE of those 'rahrah' people offered to pay your expenses, OR buy that lowrider colt off you after a couple months. People go 'Rah rah rah' all the time when they ain't payin' the bills or taking the risks.
But you have a project in mind, with a goal - resale. In fact, a very QUICK resale, as horse sales go.
What I am saying is that the WAY you want to do this is very, very ill advised. Your goals are not a good match to your methods.
I said NOTHING about 'helping someone who made a mistake' being a 'crime', and you bloody well KNOW I did not. And please don't try to make me sound like some ogre. I've got one of the few very rare, six thousand dollar five hundred dollar horse in existence, LOL, and I got him for nothing other than to get him out of where he was. And so have a lot people.
And you don't need ANYONE to go over pictures and advise on the desirability of an animal if that's your sole goal!!!
I said the way you're going about it you're very unlikely to succeed at your STATED GOAL. I said what you're trying to do is impossible.
You want to take something that is a mess(in the first case, a horse that was very likely COMPLETELY unsellable, because someone on this good earth told you you could tickle that colt's belly or slap side reins on him and get him to put his back up), and turn it around in a few months without even throwing a leg over it, and while you've admitted you're not looking to make a profit directly, you maybe might like to make a LITTLE profit, and you STILL are trying to spend very little on it, and move the horse very quickly.
IF you were going to buy a decent unbroke papered youngster with not-entirely-defective-conformation that did not look like it came from a place where the horses were never trimmed, wormed or given vaccinations, and it had a good look to it, like some day it might actually be sellable, a nice color, markings, popular family type breed, for say, 1500 or 2000 dollars, and spend six months wearing out your backside out riding it, training it really well, and turning it out to be a nicely started, cooperative little local show horse, and sell it for 3000 dollars, groomed up, trained up, fit, shod and up to date on its vaccinations, worming and teeth, then I'd say 'that sounds like a good idea'.
IF you were to take that little chestnut youngster right up there, which is a nice lookin' youngster, and is FREE, and comes from a place where they TAKE CARE OF THEIR HORSES, and take REAL good care of it for two years, and then break it out or pay to get it broke out, and then advertise it for 2000 or 3000 dollars, or keep it forever because it would be a lovely addition to your family and looks like it'd be about as honest as the day is long, I'd say, 'that sounds like a good idea'.
If you gave me ANY plan where I thought you had even a half a chance of meeting the goals you yourself stated, I'd say, 'that sounds like a good idea'.
If you were to say, 'I want to give a home to some poor horse that never had a chance', I'd clap my hands and hug you. But that isn't what you said this was about. This is about resale. This is different.
The trouble for me is NOT with 'helping people', and in fact, 'helping people' was never stated as a goal of yours til ya got mad at me. It was getting a horse for cheap, putting very little money into it, not riding it, and selling it in a short time, maybe even at a modest profit.
It's with do if your plans sound like they have a half a chance of meeting your goals.
You are twisting and contorting what I said simply because you don't agree with me or are so gung ho to do this that you can't even BEAR anyone saying, 'the way you want to do this is NOT matching your stated goals'. And that is pretty dang gung ho, gung ho enough to be extremely rude and misrepresent what I've said, and I don't appreciate it. And everyone who doesn't have the endurance to slog through my posts will believe YOU, that I said it is a 'crime to help someone who made a mistake'.
Look, if you want to get all 'rah rah rah!' responses, you need to do it in front of people that don't know how craptastic this market is or how hard it is to sell ANYTHING with four legs on it now or just go 'awwwww' anytime they see a picture of a horse. And please...take a moment to notice, that not ONE of those 'rahrah' people offered to pay your expenses, OR buy that lowrider colt off you after a couple months. People go 'Rah rah rah' all the time when they ain't payin' the bills or taking the risks.
But you have a project in mind, with a goal - resale. In fact, a very QUICK resale, as horse sales go.
What I am saying is that the WAY you want to do this is very, very ill advised. Your goals are not a good match to your methods.
I said NOTHING about 'helping someone who made a mistake' being a 'crime', and you bloody well KNOW I did not. And please don't try to make me sound like some ogre. I've got one of the few very rare, six thousand dollar five hundred dollar horse in existence, LOL, and I got him for nothing other than to get him out of where he was. And so have a lot people.
And you don't need ANYONE to go over pictures and advise on the desirability of an animal if that's your sole goal!!!
I said the way you're going about it you're very unlikely to succeed at your STATED GOAL. I said what you're trying to do is impossible.
You want to take something that is a mess(in the first case, a horse that was very likely COMPLETELY unsellable, because someone on this good earth told you you could tickle that colt's belly or slap side reins on him and get him to put his back up), and turn it around in a few months without even throwing a leg over it, and while you've admitted you're not looking to make a profit directly, you maybe might like to make a LITTLE profit, and you STILL are trying to spend very little on it, and move the horse very quickly.
IF you were going to buy a decent unbroke papered youngster with not-entirely-defective-conformation that did not look like it came from a place where the horses were never trimmed, wormed or given vaccinations, and it had a good look to it, like some day it might actually be sellable, a nice color, markings, popular family type breed, for say, 1500 or 2000 dollars, and spend six months wearing out your backside out riding it, training it really well, and turning it out to be a nicely started, cooperative little local show horse, and sell it for 3000 dollars, groomed up, trained up, fit, shod and up to date on its vaccinations, worming and teeth, then I'd say 'that sounds like a good idea'.
IF you were to take that little chestnut youngster right up there, which is a nice lookin' youngster, and is FREE, and comes from a place where they TAKE CARE OF THEIR HORSES, and take REAL good care of it for two years, and then break it out or pay to get it broke out, and then advertise it for 2000 or 3000 dollars, or keep it forever because it would be a lovely addition to your family and looks like it'd be about as honest as the day is long, I'd say, 'that sounds like a good idea'.
If you gave me ANY plan where I thought you had even a half a chance of meeting the goals you yourself stated, I'd say, 'that sounds like a good idea'.
If you were to say, 'I want to give a home to some poor horse that never had a chance', I'd clap my hands and hug you. But that isn't what you said this was about. This is about resale. This is different.
The trouble for me is NOT with 'helping people', and in fact, 'helping people' was never stated as a goal of yours til ya got mad at me. It was getting a horse for cheap, putting very little money into it, not riding it, and selling it in a short time, maybe even at a modest profit.
It's with do if your plans sound like they have a half a chance of meeting your goals.
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