donedealers beware

dicky82

as some of you may or may not know i have an ad on here for springer spanial pups, anyway put the ad up on donedeal on saturday. i have had THREE calls for a certain sector of the community looking for me to meet them with 'any' pup usual tell tale signs of something fishy going on. i've had these types of calls with other dogs down through the years. so anyway just a warning to people who may actually be sucked in by these lowlifes don't meet anyone in carparks with your pups. if people call out to you get at the very least their reg number.
just a heads up lads.

garv123

Never meet them at your home either unless you know the person.

They will also try and follow you home and see where you live, to come back and take the pups..
Spunk was followed around after meeting someone about a dog too he said on here.

Spunk84

Bloody was too :O the person I was called by had not got that certain communitys vocabulary either, wasn't till they pulled up to me that I knew what I was dealing with . Pure scum

Erk

Would they try rob the pups then?

Spunk84

Erk wrote: »

Would they try rob the pups then?

They'd rob you if you weren't tied down !

Vegeta

Two posts have been deleted already from this thread. Lets not have any more please.

lb1981

Seen the same thing happen a cousin of mine, getting phoned up left right and center to view the dogs then no one would show up ,then when he wasnt home the neighbour rang him to say that someone was after jumping his back wall.Can not post what happend next but that whole family that were parked outside the housein the transit came off second best that day.
But this is actually rampent now ,not only with dogs but all items up for sale on web sites.One of the lads in work not only was the petrol lawnmore he was selling get stroked all his patio funiture, bbq and his kids bikes aswel.

You might be best off holding out for one of the gamefairs Dave and selling them in the car park, they are good strong pups and you will have no problem selling them to shooting homes, one of the game fairs i was at last year there was more activity in the car park then in the fair

garv123

You never meet someone at your house you dont now to sell for that very reason. meet them at a petrol station or somewhere and if you trust them bring them down to your house.

I've heard of someone selling an I-phone and he met the fella somewhere and he went up to the lads car who had the engine running and when he handed him the phone he drove off:rolleyes:

jaygile

never even thought of that - people robbin' the gaf because of what you advertise online.. i will definitely think twice now before I give out any information over the phone and when deciding where to meet someone, thanks for the heads up.

EPointer=Birdss

Kinda ruins the whole experience of buying pups if you can't meet the owner at his house.
I enjoy the cup of tea, seeing the set up, getting new ideas etc You could have well bred dogs in a crap set up that could turn you right off. I know of a guy who sold pups under the sire of one dog but was bred out of a mutt in reality. You'd know he was a dodge the minute you saw his place!

But can see the old traditions being a thing of the past as the risks outway the pluses & it will become a pure transaction now. Personally I wouldn't buy a pup in a fair unless I'd pre arranged it or knew the breeder.

jap gt

recently bought a springer pup, i met the man at the local church quick chat then followed him home, he was telling me he had two lads in a transit try and follow him home when he refused to let them call to see the pups, he had to drive a load of back roads to get away from them.

Agree with epointer, its always nice to see the setup, you can usually tell in the first few minutes if he is a serious dog man or a chancer

dodderangler

Have to say the local garage would be the best least there is plenty of people around then as witnesses just in case.

Local-womanizer

I have heard this happen to a mate of mine. Met with the "buyer" and called it quits. They then followed him when he went to drive home. They soon got the message when he casually pulled into the local Gardai station.

Stonehall9

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Kinda ruins the whole experience of buying pups if you can't meet the owner at his house.
I enjoy the cup of tea, seeing the set up, getting new ideas etc You could have well bred dogs in a crap set up that could turn you right off. I know of a guy who sold pups under the sire of one dog but was bred out of a mutt in reality. You'd know he was a dodge the minute you saw his place!

But can see the old traditions being a thing of the past as the risks outway the pluses & it will become a pure transaction now. Personally I wouldn't buy a pup in a fair unless I'd pre arranged it or knew the breeder.

I'm on the lookout for a good springer at the moment, but was hopin to buy a dog with the basics kinda done, was lookin on done deal and saw good bred dogs, made a few phonecalls but got the impression from some of the men that I rang that they weren't able to reel off much info about the dogs in conversation if you get me, had the backgrounds of the dogs in the add but couldn't tell me when I rang !!!

dicky82

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Kinda ruins the whole experience of buying pups if you can't meet the owner at his house.
I enjoy the cup of tea, seeing the set up, getting new ideas etc You could have well bred dogs in a crap set up that could turn you right off. I know of a guy who sold pups under the sire of one dog but was bred out of a mutt in reality. You'd know he was a dodge the minute you saw his place!

But can see the old traditions being a thing of the past as the risks outway the pluses & it will become a pure transaction now. Personally I wouldn't buy a pup in a fair unless I'd pre arranged it or knew the breeder.

if you want to call up ep you can have all the tea and biscuits and chats you want. might even let you but one of the pups. . .

you have touched on something though in regards to the this is the sire when actually another dog is. but i'll start a new thread on it.

dicky82

Stonehall9 wrote: »

I'm on the lookout for a good springer at the moment, but was hopin to buy a dog with the basics kinda done, was lookin on done deal and saw good bred dogs, made a few phonecalls but got the impression from some of the men that I rang that they weren't able to reel off much info about the dogs in conversation if you get me, had the backgrounds of the dogs in the add but couldn't tell me when I rang !!!

why not take a look at one of the nice pups i have and do the basics yourself. :D:D

Boiled-egg

Its a pitty that things have gone this way. I bought my first pup about 7 months ago through a friend at work, at work and the whole experience go going out to see them was excellent, I even got the tea and biscuits. Its nice to see the way the owners actually had a soft spot for all the pups and the fella's wife was upset when I collected my lad!!!
People who follow others home and then rob the gaff need their balls cut off in my opinion.