Any chance that The Reserve he has on this auction turns into a learning experience?
Based on his behavior to date, sadly the answer is probably ‘no’. Flat learning curve.
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Here’s what I suspect, although keep in mind I could be totally wrong.
He expected both of his horses to sell immediately, due to fame or notoriety, and for a small fortune. Because: He’s an ignoramus and saw himself as a new American icon.
Now, his grace period of stashing the horses in Montana has expired. Winter is here. The horses need to find new homes. But it just eats at him that he can’t make money off the two saintly beasts who packed his utterly clueless butt over hill and dale.
I imagine someone in Montana made Cereal a reasonable offer for Falcon. But Cereal saw the amount as an insult. So he put Falcon in the online auction with a reserve that’s several grand above that standing offer. His ego just has to try and save face and prove that Falcon’s value has skyrocketed simply because the horse was a vehicle for his Magickal Vision Quest.
Ultimately, I think Falcon will go to a new home, regardless of whether he reaches the reserve Cereal set. At least that’s my sincere hope.
I’m more concerned about Pete. 
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As far as Pete is concerned. Someone needs to set him clear that rescues are more likely going to want money to take him, rather than the other direction. He wants a 501c for a tax deduction, though not sure how much income he has to deduct from. And who is going to sign off at an assigned value? Don’t appraisers charge money as well?
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Good summary.
So context is, as we know: Dude is not taking care of his own horses. He has thrown himself onto the kindness of others. Which seems to be his lifestyle.
Also. He HAS NOT transported the horses back to Texas. Because why would he, when it would be expensive (even DIY) and he doesn’t want to care for them anyway.
Guessing he has no place and no means to care for these horses himself in Montana, Texas, family-home Canada, or anywhere else. No one has rained money on him for his Great Vision Quest (that included a long luxury truck/trailer ride).
The. Last. Thing. This Ma’Effer. Will Ever Do In His Life. Is spend money on those horses. The horses who took care of him and made his dream come true (sorta).
Someone, along with all other options in Montana, has said that the free grass ride is OVER. Options are: 1) Start paying now. 2) Move them elsewhere (includes selling them). 3) Leave them here, don’t pay, and the property owner seizes them for non-payment.
If Falcon does not sell at this auction - for whatever reason - I have a feeling that TFG (this guy, not the other guy) has to DO SOMETHING with them. Something that will COST MONEY. He can’t leave them where they are without the risk of losing them to the property owner. (Maybe he’ll go for that and come up with a self-pitying narrative about it?)
My wild random guess is that once he hits a wall on what-to-do-next, he will do as he has always done … throw the problem to a new helper. Someone who is not up to speed on the situation or on TFG. What that looks like, I don’t know, but that’s what I anticipate.
Or, he could take the final auction bid price … but what are the chances of that.
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I have no doubt that this has been made very, very clear to him. By more than one rescue.
There is no need for an appraisal if a rescue takes them. Unless he wants to write off a tax-qualified donation, and he might want to to that if the rescue comes up.
But I’ll bet real money that he does not have enough donations in any federal tax year (this one or the next one) to actually take a charitable deduction. Most people never will. I don’t know what the minimum is, some percentage of income and/or a lot of qualified items that total a certain amount, but it’s a bite out of income, you practically have to be tithing to have enough to deduct.
Of course Falcon will appraise based on his utilitarian market value. Not some imaginary Netflix deal.
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I’d guess fairly high. It is, after all, the easiest. possible escape from the horse problem. And will net him a few bucks as well.
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Cyril must be steaming to see that many of the other horses on that site already have higher bids on them. I’m sure he thought that he his epic ride would have made poor, fuzzy Falcon into a horse that would command $$$.
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Because you are a sensible person.
But you 
are not like him. 
Some warm water, horse shampoo, a brush and a good blanket would have helped more than the epic ride, as we know.
Better care and moderate recent exercise would have helped the horse look more ready for its next life.
But he expects people to come fix his problems for him and leave him better off than he was.
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I think that you folks are giving him far more credit for common sense or an even-tenuous grip on reality than he’s actually got.
This is a partying child who ain’t very bright, doesn’t observe, and doesn’t seem to learn from life. He didn’t think, he doesn’t plan, he doesn’t realize things. I have a brother like this; he’s just oblivious.
Cereal is basically helpless, so some people feel paternal or maternal and take care of the things that he doesn’t. And Cereal doesn’t know beans about horses: their care, the boarding/sales process.
He still apparently has the belief that his horses are worth a pretty good-sized fortune, and apparently hasn’t had enough contrary information/experience to change his mind.
I don’t think that he expects people to solve his problems because he doesn’t realize that has any. Sure, he’s looking to sell the horses. As the main character in “Legally Blonde” said, dismissively, when asked about her getting into Harvard, “What, like it’s hard?”
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I agree. It fits with his over-sized ego and lack of knowledge regarding horses. I doubt he can comprehend why Falcon might not be getting the same interest as some of the others.
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And just to add to that, his dad has a very successful dried snack fruit operation and I am sure Cereal wanted for nothing growing up. His over all persona reeks of someone that has never had to work hard and recieved what ever he wanted because his parents did not want him to experience the hardships they had growing up. I want to take that silver spoon he has in his mouth and jam it someplace else.
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I honestly think the issues he displays are way more than simply being raised in privilege. I’ve met many children of privilege who are driven to accomplish something on their own. I’ve also met children from no privilege who are unfocused, whiny and entitled. Anyhow, Cereal is a piece of work, and I sense deeper mental health issues than we have really seen yet. But haven’t seen enough to be able to say.
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I really appreciate it when people don’t tell me what I think.
They can’t see inside my head, have no idea, and are wrong.
Criticizing people for thinking things they don’t think is not a good look. People don’t respond with self-reflection. They just think that the person criticizing is – well, to say it nicely: wrong.
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I apologize for using what I thought was common wording to express a difference of opinion that, obviously, gave the wrong impression. Of course I don’t know your thoughts, I don’t know Cereal’s thoughts, often I don’t know my own thoughts.
Is this less offensive wording: “my impression of Cereal, given the very little I know about him, is that he’s not very aware of things, and, therefore, doesn’t think about or plan for them”?
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Sure.
No judgments expressed about what others think about Falcon’s current owner. 
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Right. What others think is their own business, and I don’t know what they are seeing in/with Cereal. What I see is identical life actions to my oblivious brother, who gets himself in scrapes without even realizing he is in a scrape. Others rescue him; he doesn’t always realize he’s been rescued, just like he didn’t realize he was in trouble in the first place.
That’s what I see. Although Cereal is much more capable of living in this world, making decisions, and accomplishing things than my poor brother ever was.
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I wonder why the bid by Sweetyness was raised when there was no other bid against them
| Bidder Name | Bidding Time | Bid | Auto |
|---|---|---|---|
| jumpqh | December 24, 2023 1:40 pm | $4,001.00 | |
| Sweetyness | December 24, 2023 1:40 pm | $4,000.00 | Auto |
| Sweetyness | December 22, 2023 4:55 pm | $3,750.00 |
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People with these characteristics can be a puzzle. They don’t seem to learn.
And the biggest puzzle to me is how often it works for them. People do step in to fix their problems. Sometimes random strangers. People seem to recognize that this person is really over their head, “I can help,” and their natural empathy encourages them to step forward.
But, this pattern wears on people when it continues to happen. One after another eventually steps back out.
But, someone else always seems to come along with the helping hand.
How this guy came up with this idea, of all the ideas he could have had … but again and again, people helped him … and his horse(s). Having such a large animal may have attracted more help than he would have had otherwise, maybe.
The Netflix/documentary part of it … he didn’t bring enough game to make that work. Unless someday something does come about for rather curious reasons. Maybe.
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Below reserve.
Curious that it was up’ed only by $1. I would have thought a bigger step than that, to encourage bidders to put a little more energy into next bids.
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Because of the bid by jumpqh, which is somewhere at or above $4001. Basically it’s showing that Sweetyness’s max amount is exhausted and that’s why jumpqh is now winning. Notice these entries both happened at the same time.
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