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marietorget
December 24, 2010
keeping deposit
On 11-19-10 we wired (Per her wishes) Heather Gaffer McKereghan $3000.00 deposit on a pony she had for sale. It was understood, we needed to physically look and approve pony as a carriage driving partner for our pony. We discussed this with Heather and her husband Shawn. We were assured if the pony did not meet our need for whatever reason we would get a full refund. We were also told by Shawn, the wire transfer was in a holding account until the transaction was completed. This was a lie according to their bank. We live in WA state the pony was in Or. we had until 11-21-10 to look at pony. On 11-21-10 we started out for Or. and were caught in a snow storm, we had to turn back. McKereghan was in a hurry to sell the pony, she told us she had another buyer waiting to purchase the pony. We called her as soon as we got back home (9, 30 a.m.) to let her know we would need to back out of the transaction, since we could not get there and we knew she wanted to sell the pony right now. We requested she refund our money. She sent me an email on 11-21-10, "I will mail you the check". The pony was sold by 11-27-10 according to email we received. WE did not get the check until 12-3-10 and only after we started threatening legal action. When we got the check, she had arbitrarily deducted $100.00 for " cleaning the pony, gas and the charge for picking up wire transfer". We never agreed to those charges. Nowhere on her website, verbally or in any of her email does she discuss charging us for getting pony ready for us to see. WE have asked for a refund of that $100.00 they have not to responded. The bottom line, she had us at her mercy, saw the opportunity to get some bucks for herself and took it. We were foolish to wire the money, lesson learned, and lucky from what I have learned to get any of our money from Wyndsor Welsh, the McKereghans. Looking for a pony? Look somewhere else. Buyer BEWARE.
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