I hate it when....Puppy "offers" - Page 1

I hate it when someone contacts you about a dog or upcoming litter or puppy you have and tries to make a deal for it. I mean WHO'S dog is it?!? I am not talking about haggling, I am talking about straight out - here's what I will do and offer you for your dog. Is this normal in the dog industry??

Someone just contacted me about a puppy and wants to do a thing where they train and title the female puppy but instead of doing the normal like we co-own the dog where we split the litters or like I have seen some kennels do and do a foster on the dog and the kennel gets all the puppies but 1 puppy from the last litter is the foster famiies but the kennel incurs all breeding expenses. This person only wants to give me one puppy back from the first litter. So they would get a free puppy and then 2 years down the road I might get one puppy back without any say about the bitch or the potential stud? I think not.

LOL!  Maybe with a breeding female I'd make such a deal but not a puppy.  Even with a breeding female, I would expect more than one pup back if they are paying no money up front for the dog.  Free puppy=possible pup down the road.  Not a chance.

There are more and more kennels that are doing foster homes and creative offerings

As the old saying goes it nevers hurts to "ASK". 

but I think they went about it the wrong way from how you stated it.

 EK

I had someone email me interested in one of my Lex X Troja puppies(both Lex and Troja are SchH3).  I have these puppies priced at $800 and they wanted to know if I would take less!  Less?!?  These are already priced cheap!  I said NO as I am doing some training on them on a regular basis!

Vickie

www.PowerHausKennels.com

It's becoming a buyers market so some are getting more creative in their "offers".  Even the very best working lines are getting hard to place for a realistic amount.   That's a huge part of why I bred one litter and decided I was done.    Maybe a few years down the road I will reconsider, but for now no more puppies here.

And you know what's crap?  You see byb types advertising with non-OFA'd or titled parents that don't care where their pups go still getting the $1000 - $1500.   Of course those are the pups that end up in shelters later.....  Or become byb producers themselves.

"I hate it when"...the title of a post gives no information about what the thread is about.  I like a concise descriptive title so I know what I am opening or if I prefer, not opening.

Well they must be crazy.

If you have set price for dog. Then, I wouldn't even respond to anyone who doesn't have the money.

There are so many con artist out there, who want something for nothing.

I hate that too!!!!

I always go by my first vibe on the phone.  A friend of mine says, sell the appointment first.  I will never negotiate over the phone.  It is like buying a car without looking at it first.  It is rude too.  I also tried raising the price and saying negotiotiable to approved homes.  I has worked for me with two litters.  I never want to devalue them.

Susan

Firelight,

Don't worry and do it.  You are going to end up screwing them anyway like you screwed me out of $1,500.

So why not do it?