Complaint Review: Tiffany Farless - Internet

On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 I contacted Tiffany Farless regarding a horse she had advertised on HorseClicks.com.  The grey mare named WINTER was described as:  "Gorgeous-Dead-broke-trail-horse"   We had some connection problems on the phone so we continued our conversation via text,which is good because I have it all in my phone.  She continued to describe the horse as an animal that would work for our family. Calm trail horse anyone can ride, she said she had the horse for 2 years and is selling her because her daughter got another horse she wants to concentrate on riding and could not have 2 horses. I told her we would fly to TN to come see the horse, she said she would be sold by then....several people coming to get her....I fell for it.  I did get the horse to a local vet to be checked out.  The vet has since shared some convern that the horse may have been drugged prior to the visit.

 I felt ok with the health of the horse and proceeded with the purchase and transportation arrangements.  When the horse arrived here in Colorado she was terrified, skitish, we could not touch her.  We led her to a pen and let her calm down for a couple days.  When we tried to catch her, we couldn't she was pacing and running from us.  Once we did catch her we couldn't touch her face, she got so upset she reared up and nearly trampled me.  I looked at her paperwork and noticed a different owner listed on the COGGINS test dated March 7, 2015.  I was alarmed immediately I thought "she sold me someone else's horse!"  I found owner listed on the paperwork and sent her a message to try to get more information about this horse and what we are dealing with AND to confirm she was no longer the owner. She replied with this:

"She is not dead broke. That is why I sold her as I need a beginner horse. She is very well trained as a racking horse however she was abused before we got her and we didn't know that until after I got her. She hates to be caught and took us three months to get her to come to us with food. She is extrememly head shy and is a weaver if she is stalled and hates being stalled. She is for an intermediate to advanced rider. The girl you bought her from put her for sale the day after she came out and got her from me after riding her for 2 and half hours. She would be an awesome racking horse in shows for the experienced rider but is definitely not dead broke..Because of her being head shy and her nervousness with a stall she talked me down from 1000 to 450. Then sold her  for much more.  I am so sorry you were misled.

Winter is a great girl and when she gains your trust, she will let you near her and let you touch her head. Winter has to be approached on the left at the beginning if you touch her back and work your way up to her head she is good. I had to keep a halter on her though to make it easier.  My husband has ridden her and caught her but did have to use food and did get her on the trail as well. I did not learn until after she was sold that the family that sold her to you buys and sells horses for quick turn around. Had I known, I would have not sold Winter to them. I just want her to have a good home and I am not one to hide facts so situations like you are in do not occur. A lifftle further background is that we got Winter from Auction in December.  We had her until she bought her the day before she was advertised for sale. So you are definitely correct, she has not had her for two years. Thank you for reaching out. Again I am sorry they misled you."

I contacted Tiffany again and let her know I was aware of what she had done, she falsified information in order to de-fraud innocent "beginner" horse buyers.  I did further research online and ffound she has done this to several people.  There is a post on RipoffReport.com:

**BUYERS PLEASE BEWARE**.---Its not necessary for us to go into length of detail on this seller who is: A dishonest horse trader. Just take a look for yourself on the LONG list of alias names she has gone under through the past years as you can see. That should be enough to realize how Angela Lawson runs and hides and WOW so many different living locations too. Always on the move, always lies. This seller needs to be stopped selling what she ALWAYS CALLS BEGINNER SAFE< DEAD BROKE < KID SAFE < HUSBAND SAFE > GRANDMA SAFE> Only to get someone seriously hurt OR killed. By such misrepresentation and drugging to "get the sale done". THIS IS SUCH A CRYING SHAME THAT ANY SELLER WOULD BE SO HIGHLY DISHONEST ABOUT HORSES THEY SELL. Ms Lawson we found you again. [continued below]....

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..... Run and change your name again. We will not stop finding you. Here are pict   ures of her horse she is selling NOW---once again have a look > wow its another BEGINNER SAFE HORSE with stolen pictures ! WOW. GET A JOB safe a life !!

She is a pro and has contacts at the slaughter auctions and other horse auctions that are helping her identify horses that look good and she can resale.  She knows the loop holes in the Paypal payment system so buyers cannot dispute the transactions.  She has several alias' as indicated in the RipoffReport.

She needs to be stopped this is a terrible and unsafe scam.