German Shepherd dog

I have seen this ad and a couple more just like it.   All I can say is a fool and his money......

The other ad the guy was getting on his jet saying good bye to the wife and her fur coat standing next to the limo.

For that much money a year I would hire out to you has a body guard myself!   

LOL....  its all in the presentation, good marketing, and search out the fools.

Same here on the tassles.

with that kind of money... the dog better crap out diamonds!

I think that we forget that there is a market for these salesmen.  There are people out there that can afford to be ignorant.  These people have multiple cars that cost more than these dogs and they only have them for a few years until the next model comes out.  Some of these people have cars that just sit in the garage and cost 5-10 times this amount. 

Hell a nice set of cherry cabinets for your house will cost this much. 

People have boats that are used 3 months out of the year for 5 times this amount. 

here are more of their ridiculous pricings :)  (this must be a joke).  I wonder if they compete here in the USA to get their titles or if they claim they come with the titles from Europe?  

Pricing of Competitive
Conformation Dogs

SchH III V-Rated (Excellent) $12,500.00 +

SchH III Spitzen V-Rated at regional competition (Top 5) $18,500.00 +

SchH III Spitzen V-Rated at the Bundessiegerzuchtshau (Top 25) $50,000.00 +

SchH III VA-Rated (Excellent Select at "Siegershow") $100,000.00 +

SchH III VA-1 ("Sieger" - World Champion) $250,000.00 +

Well, you do here of people spending more than that on a SchH III VA-1 "Sieger" - World Champion which really can't do too much for you at all except produce sperm so, why not? If you have that much money to burn then enjoy yourself and your toys, I would. :-b

No trainer/breeder is ever gonna sell a world champion to this guy! He puts those prices up there so that when Shaq or Steven Segal sees $250,000 they think a $65,000 dog is a good deal !!

He says he sold a dog to  Shaquill O. in Miami.......probably a different Saquill O in Miami...  I can't afford the "real thing" but if some of you guys want to go in on the price of a video with me,  I REALLY want to see what his $65,000 Estate dogs actually  can do.

Reminds me of the player for the Indians years back, Manny Ramirez.  He had one of the teams "gopher" guys, wash his car during a game, so that it was nice and ready after the game.  The team "gopher" guy found a paper bag in the glove box and took it to Rameriz and told him, "Sir, I found this bag of money in your glove box:.  According to the newspaper report, Manny replied "Oh, yea, 17 grand.  I forgot about it".

There are people with money.

Ted Turner gave one BILLION  dollars to the UN as was reported on TV.

60, 000 is nothing for 7 years or so of some comfort.   Just buy another later.

 I would also be interested in seeing the dogs performance level. Video would be nice.

There was another thread on this same topic not too long ago... http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/bulletins_read/165440.html

www.protectiondogforums.com

YOu are most likely right, they probably start at $100. and go up depending on the training level!!!

$100,000 for sale pp pug for the small home owner. any offers? lol

are they all insane $65,000 for a noisy mut no thanks!

Again,  for that much money, I'll hire out..LOL   

 it was P.T. Barnum who said "theres a sucker born every minute"

sue, i will chip in some cash for the video,  on second thought pay me the gas money and i will take some club helpers  to this guys house and we can personally work the dogs, come back and give you a full report.

john

How many trainers would you have tostaff to train that many dogs to level of "ESTATE PROTECTION".  No video must be a super secret training methods.

Marty

Seriously though, where do these jokers get the dogs from...? Anyone on this forum....?

I should have thought the folks from Europe would have clued up by now to realise that the dog they sold to that genuine sounding agent has now ended up with a 10x marked up price as dumb-ass/celebrity fodder. If that be the case they might start wising up and charging these agents much more money. Or maybe that has already happened and there are a few happy people in Europe selling their dogs at a sweet deal. Or maybe not cos' of course these websites don't provide pedigree info. and who is to say the images are not heavily photoshoped making the dogs hard to identify....

Check this out too for a laugh too -

http://www.harrisonk9.com/index.cfm

A person in my club actually bought a GSD from here.  Spent about 20K.  The dog is a very nice confirmation dog, black and red with nice structure.  I have worked the dog several times in bitework and he works well.  He is definately not equipment orientated and keyed on the man.  He bites full with a medium hard grip.  He is probably everything the owner wanted or expected.  My opinion, not hard enough in the bite work for my liking, not enough spark or drive in obedience, but nice for a conformation dog.  I would never pay anywhere near that much for that dog.  But I like working line GSD's and he doesn't compare to my Dante x Anita male.  He is however a very nice dog with a very nice temperment and the owner thinks he is the greatest.  He is not what I would want for a police K-9 or PPD, but again the owner doesn't understand what a truly hard tough dog is and couldn't handle one.  They have the money to spend and the dog has a great home.  

There is another individual who spent 45k on a malinois.  Some of our K-9 guys offered to work the dog at one of our trainings, but the guy wasn't interested in bringing his dog out.  We just wanted to see a 45k malinois.  

Jim

I knew a guy in Miami, that would buy dogs the breeder couldnt sell at $500. Purchase the dogs at $300.00 a pup for the whole litter. Then sell the at $1,500 a pup. He called himself the master of Bull shitting.

Obviously money cannot buy sanity!  What an idiot!!!!!!!!  $500K cash?    

bump

I'll still call them a sucker when that 65k dog fails them at what the dog was bought for. No training is worth 65k unless its to train the dog to s*** diamonds!

How do you know that the $65,000 dog wont do what it is trained for?  I don't think that its fair to libel someone who you have never met, don't know anything about, and whose only frame of info is having surfed their site for 5 minutes.

Jim-  I'm glad someone feels the same way I do about their dogs.  I too could not put a price tag on mine either.  Although I think it's totally assinine to spend 65 grand on a dog regardless if you're filthy stinkin rich or not; who am I to knock someone from having the clientle willing and able to pay the price???  But on the other hand it comes down to economics as you pointed out....an NBA player, movie star or even a smaller version of Bill Gates spends 50 grand like I'd spend a couple thousand without blinking an eye or hurting his bank account.  But even so, you can get a real nice dog and send it to a top trainer for custom training, all your bells and whistles and you're still no where near that amount of cash.  The final product is still gonna be the same is what my point is so why not keep the extra 50 grand and go buy yourself a new sports car??    But to each their own I guess.