amysue
Well-Known Member
So...my day sucked. Excuse my rant, but I seriously need to vent. Last night the cattle dealer that my husband has been dealing with for a while calls desperately looking to make a load ( I never liked the guy as I feel we never make out well and hubby and I always get into a fight over it). I have a yard full of holstein steers coming 2 years old that I have been waiting to sell when they finish out and the price is right. Now..my feelings have always told me that on a scale of trustworthyness from most to least it goes: used car salesman, horse dealer, drug dealer then cattle dealer. Obviously my instincts are not far off.
He tells me he wants 4 around 600# and 2 around 900# to go directly to slaughter, so now would be a time to cull any riglings. He guaranteed me 1.00/#. He said it would really help him out as he was in a bind, he wouldn't charge a commission or trucking and he'd pay in cash (obviously too good to be true). So this morning he sends his driver to pick them up, he did not bother to come pick them up him self. I do not have a scale at the farm but we are pretty good at eyeballing and he said "around", not exactly on weight. So we load the ones I want to part with (hard for me because they're my bottle baby boys) and he heads over the scale. The driver calls me and says the 6 total animals weighed 4580# . Once that rat buzzard dealer crosses state lines with my boys he calls my hubby and tells him the weight and says well, two were riggers and they are on the lean side so I got you $3800. My husband told me that and I blew a serious gasket...like told the dealer what I was going to do to him...long story short...basically I told him the steers hanging upside down right now are having a better day than he is going to when I get done with his lying butt. He goes well...I can give you 4,000. My husband told him he better make it right or he would have to deal with me. So they show up at the farm and I am in the shower, I answer the door in a towel and the poor driver told me the dealer was here (he wasn't even man enough to knock on my door himself) and I told him he could wait til I was done (so I took my time, washer my hair, shaved my legs, painted my toe nails etc. Figured I'd make him wait) then I storm out there and that s.o.b. wouldn't even look me in the eye! He hands me the slip from the scale and 4,000 cash and says he is sorry and wishes to make it right. I told him in order to make it right he needs to give me my 580 dollars or give me a cow back. He just looks at the ground and walks away! The poor driver (obviously very uncomfortable ) apologizes and says, "I took a hard hit too". I turned around and said, "I bet you did with this lying a** dirty mother trucker (except I used the work that rhymes with trucker)" the dealer looks at me, doesnt say a word and walks away. What a tool bag!
So now I basically gave a steer away for free. I struggle enough to pay my bills and take good care of everybody, often putting my own personal needs aside and now this. I put 2 years and hundreds of dollars worth of feed, bedding and vet care into these animals and I was conned into giving one away. I wish there was something I could do or some agency to report him to but without a written agreement, I fear that I am s.o.l.
He tells me he wants 4 around 600# and 2 around 900# to go directly to slaughter, so now would be a time to cull any riglings. He guaranteed me 1.00/#. He said it would really help him out as he was in a bind, he wouldn't charge a commission or trucking and he'd pay in cash (obviously too good to be true). So this morning he sends his driver to pick them up, he did not bother to come pick them up him self. I do not have a scale at the farm but we are pretty good at eyeballing and he said "around", not exactly on weight. So we load the ones I want to part with (hard for me because they're my bottle baby boys) and he heads over the scale. The driver calls me and says the 6 total animals weighed 4580# . Once that rat buzzard dealer crosses state lines with my boys he calls my hubby and tells him the weight and says well, two were riggers and they are on the lean side so I got you $3800. My husband told me that and I blew a serious gasket...like told the dealer what I was going to do to him...long story short...basically I told him the steers hanging upside down right now are having a better day than he is going to when I get done with his lying butt. He goes well...I can give you 4,000. My husband told him he better make it right or he would have to deal with me. So they show up at the farm and I am in the shower, I answer the door in a towel and the poor driver told me the dealer was here (he wasn't even man enough to knock on my door himself) and I told him he could wait til I was done (so I took my time, washer my hair, shaved my legs, painted my toe nails etc. Figured I'd make him wait) then I storm out there and that s.o.b. wouldn't even look me in the eye! He hands me the slip from the scale and 4,000 cash and says he is sorry and wishes to make it right. I told him in order to make it right he needs to give me my 580 dollars or give me a cow back. He just looks at the ground and walks away! The poor driver (obviously very uncomfortable ) apologizes and says, "I took a hard hit too". I turned around and said, "I bet you did with this lying a** dirty mother trucker (except I used the work that rhymes with trucker)" the dealer looks at me, doesnt say a word and walks away. What a tool bag!
So now I basically gave a steer away for free. I struggle enough to pay my bills and take good care of everybody, often putting my own personal needs aside and now this. I put 2 years and hundreds of dollars worth of feed, bedding and vet care into these animals and I was conned into giving one away. I wish there was something I could do or some agency to report him to but without a written agreement, I fear that I am s.o.l.
