Madi Penfound

[trubandloki]

@Rel6

I also always find it weird when this forum starts offering unsolicited critiques of sales ads based on some anonymous third party poster unconnected to the seller.

Not anymore weird than anything else this forum talks about.

[Amberley]

@vxf111

I commented on some of the photos being strange and explained why that matters to me–

If they are using a newer phone a lot of them auto-edit pictures. The “portrait” mode on an iphone is a good example, it is a software filter that it just applies to all photos taken in that mode. A lot of other phones add HDR. Most people have no idea it does that or how it works.

[dags]

To be fair, OP didn’t post a horse or ad, they were just looking for experiences with the seller. The snippet of an ad was posted by another poster.

[Rel6]

Absolutely, I thought OP’s post was totally reasonable.

[vxf111]

It was an example of a photo that I thought looked odd. The OP specifically mentioned the seller’s photos as being a reason she was interested in the seller’s horse’s and I was responding specifically to that comment by the OP with one (publicly available and made publicly available by the seller) photo and ad.

Maybe it’s often the case that someone tries a horse, does a full PPE with films, those films are clear the the PPE is good, and then suddenly the buyer can’t come up with the money for the horse. That isn’t a fact pattern I’ve observed all that often and I’ve bought/sold enough and been around buying/selling enough to have seen some stuff. It’s certainly not something I would put in an ad, but other people’s mileage may vary.

OP asked about this seller, specifying that it was the ads that attracted her. I simply responded with my reaction to those ads. I don’t see how that’s unusual or out of line. I didn’t go digging through the seller’s personal account or comb through other strange sources to find some hidden gotcha-- this is one of the many ads the seller has put on social media and I assume it’s the type of ad the OP is talking about.

I find this seller’s ads a little weird. Maybe that’s just me (a person who drove to Canada only to find a horse with a different seller was GROSSLY misrepresented and that the video had been strategically edited to hide a huge problem with the horse).

[vxf111]

To me it always seems to be the legs that look funny and I don’t know that an app would just impact the legs? But maybe you’re right. Still, if I was a seller and I took a photo for an ad and the photo didn’t really look like the horse did, I probably wouldn’t use that photo.

[Against_All_Odds2]

I tried a horse advertised similarly to the one above. It in fact did not have perfect x-rays and would not pass any sort of vetting I’d consider for a sport horse. She was also pain to get a hold of and communication was infrequent so I spent my money elsewhere.

[UpandOver77]

I have worked with Madi a couple of times to both buy and sell horses and only have great things to say about her and her horsemanship. She is honest, kind and truly cares about matching the horse and rider. She also put some miles on a mare my BO had and we were very impressed with both the mares ground and ridden manners.

[lockedoutalter]

Same- but I find it very annoying that she never posts videos with her ads.

[ParadoxFarm]

I can see why someone may not want to post videos with ads. Sort of like we’re seeing here, they will be picked apart publicly. Sending privately is a little easier to monitor.

[Moderator_1]

We removed the photo posted earlier of a sales horse, despite it being an older image, to comply with our posting policies.