Important
Terms of Business & Conditions of Sale for Sporthorse Auctions
Member Agreement of Horsesales.ie (Crescent Horse Sales Ltd)
CONDITIONS OF SALE
Definitions: “The Agents” shall mean The Crescent Horse Sales Ltd Sale or any parties acting on their
behalf. “The Vendor” shall mean the person, partnership or corporation named in the entry form as Owner of the Lot provided that where an owner is not named in the Entry Form or in the case of a partnership the person who enters the Lot for sales shall be deemed to be the Vendor.
“The Purchaser” shall mean the highest bidder to whom the Lot is knocked down subject to the provisions set out herein and shall include a person who is the vendor or member of a per vendor partnership.
“Lot” shall mean and include horses of all descriptions offer for sale by The Crescent Horse Sales Ltd Sale.
1. The Crescent Horse Sales Ltd Sale, their servants or agents shall not accept any responsibility for injury, loss or damage suffered to persons, animals, goods or property or howsoever arising as a result of any act, omission, default or neglect on their part or on the part of any owners of horses and/or their agents or visitors to the Sales.
2. RESERVES, BIDDING AND PRIVATE SALES
(i) A Lot entered in the Catalogue and advertised for sale shall not be sold by the owner before the auction of that Lot. Should they fail to reach their reserve, vendors may negotiate privately, and in the event of a sale it must be transacted through the agents of Horsesales.ie. Anyone found not adhering to this condition of sale will be barred from any future sales.
(ii) There may be a reserved price for any Lot and subject to such reserved price, the highest bidder shall be the Purchaser. Should any dispute arise between two or more bidders the Agents shall adjudicate on the dispute and their decision shall be binding on all parties. At their discretion, the Agents may put up the Lot in dispute for Auction and re-sale.
In order for a prospective Buyer to bid on a Lot, they must first register to bid via the REGISTER to Bid link on the auction page. A deposit of €200 must be paid before being given a Bidder number which is returnable within a maximum of 7 days to the Bidder after the Sale.
The Vendor is required to pay an Entry Fee of €50 plus VAT prior to the auction. Where a Lot does not have the required Entry Fee paid shall be withdrawn.
(iii) The Agents reserve the following rights:
(a) To refuse without reason the bidding of any person;
(b) To bid on their own behalf up to the reserve price; and
(c) To withdraw the Lot from sale at any time before it has been knocked down without disclosing the reserved price.
COMMISION AND AUCTION FEE;
On the sale of a Lot commission shall be paid to the Agent at the full rate of 3% of the sale price to be paid by the vendor and the rate of 3% of the sale price to be paid by the purchaser to the Agent. A similar charge will be made for any Lot disposed of between the date of publication of the Catalogue and one week after the date of sale. Full commission is to be paid by the Vendor to the Agents in respect of any Lot returnable and/or returned. Vat is to be charged on all purchasers except:
(1) The Purchaser is from an E.U. country and is registered for V.A.T. (V.A.T. number must be given to The Crescent Horse Sales Ltd Sale);
(2) The Purchaser is from a non-EU country. (Proof of shipment must be given to The Crescent Horse Sales Ltd Sale.)
A vendor shall not bid or allow anyone else to bid on his behalf for any Lot owned by him except in cases where such Lot is being sold on the dissolution of a partnership or the sale is operating in an online only capacity.
A vendor may bid on his/her own horse in an online only auction up to their predetermined reserve price which has been discussed with and cleared by the Agent prior to the sale beginning.
Should any vendor bid on their horse once it passes €10,000 and their bid is successful they will be subject to a vendors buy back commission of 3% regardless of their reserve.
Should any vendor bid on their horse and their bid is successful over their predetermined reserve they will be liable for the full Buyers commission 3% & Vendors commission 3%.
(iv) Any Lot for sale or otherwise shall be at the Vendor’s risk provided, however, that where such Lot has been sold it shall be at the Purchaser’s risk from the fall the hammer or time of sale if sold privately. In the event that the purchasers exercises the right or re-examination in accordance with Condition Number 4 sub-section (iii) hereunder, the Lot shall remain at the Vendor’s risk until such re-examination has been completed. The Agent shall not be liable for loss, damage or injury caused by a Lot or to a Lot whether by disease, accident or otherwise howsoever arising and whether to a person in charge of such a Lot or to any third party. Any Lot purchased shall be collected not later than 72 hours after the date of the purchase (Once the full purchasing price plus associated fees has been paid to the Agents) and at the Purchaser’s expense. The Agents shall bear no responsibility for the maintenance, upkeep or wellbeing of any Lot.
(v) If a Lot is purchased and not paid for, the Vendor shall be entitled to retain the Lot until payment is received and in respect of the period of such retention, the Agents shall have a lien upon the Lot for all expenses including freight incurred by them or any Agent acting on their behalf in keeping, maintaining, training, treating or otherwise dealing with the Lot during such period of retention. A Lot shall not be delivered to a Purchaser until the expenses mentioned have been discharged in addition to the purchase price. Should the Purchase fail to pay for a Lot, the Agents in their absolute discretion may at any time re-sell the Lot by Public Auction or Private Sale and the deficiency (if any) resulting from such re-sale shall immediately made good by the defaulting purchaser and in default of a payment it shall be recoverable from the Purchaser as liquidated damaged. The Agent or the vendor of a lot shall be at liberty to pursue all legal remedies available to them against a defaulting Purchaser to recover the purchase price or any deficiency therein arising from the default.
(vi) No undertaking by the Agents, their servants or agents to take charge of a Lot previous to or after a sale or to forward such Lot to a destination shall be held to impose upon the Agents any legal obligation or vitiate any of the fore-going Conditions. Any person engaged to bring and take away a Lot shall do so at the cost and risks in all respects of the owners of such Lot.
3. DESCRIPTIONS OF A LOT AND STABLE VICES:
(i) The Agents shall not be liable or responsible for the accuracy of any information set out in the Catalogue or announced from the Rostrum concerning a Lot listed for sale or for any description, pedigree or warranty expressed or implied on its behalf such information being supplied by the Vendor who alone is responsible for its accuracy. The vendor shall at all times indemnify the Agents in respect of such of such information supplied. A Lot listed in the Catalogue is sold with its Engagements, Pregnancy Status and/or Produce Record as listed therein or announced from the Rostrum at the time of sale such information being as presented by the Vendor. The Agents will endeavour to have all Catalogue information correctly stated, but the Vendor is responsible for the correction of any error or omission. It shall be the duty of the Vendor to ensure that the Lot is properly described as set out in the Catalogue. In the event of any dispute as to the description or
information of a Lot, the Purchaser’s remedy shall be against the Vendor and the Vendor’s remedy shall be against the Purchaser and the Agents who act as Agents between Vendor and Purchaser shall not be liable as a party in any action or dispute that may arise between the parties.
(ii) Subject to the right of re-examination in accordance with Condition 4 (iii) hereunder a lot is sold either at the fall of the hammer or where a lot is not sold in the ring at the time of subsequent private agreement. These Conditions of Sale provide the basis for the contract between the Vendor and Purchaser. Where veterinary examination is requested and the lot successfully passes such re- examination procedure the sale is concluded at that time subject to the following important conditions,
(a) Any Lot which is a habitual wind-sucker, weaver or box walker or has been Nerved or has been tubed or otherwise operated on for unsoundness in wind or has shown any evidence of sweet itch and is not so described is returnable in accordance with Conditions 3(iii) hereof.
(b) Any lot described at the time of sale as a Colt and does not at such time have two testes descended to the scrotum or is described at the time of sale as a gelding and is at such time a colt or rig is returnable in accordance with Condition 3(iii) hereof.
(iii) If the Purchaser of any Lot sold with a Pedigree or description contends that it does not correspond with such Pedigree or description, or if he contends that such lot is afflicted with vice as set in Condition 3 (ii)
(a) above then he must notify the Agents within seven days from the last day of the sale at which the Lot was purchased specifying exactly the nature of complaint that the Purchaser makes in respect of the Lot Purchased. Failure to so notify the Agents shall defeat any right or remedy the purchaser may otherwise have pursuant to these conditions or otherwise. The Agents shall them nominate a Veterinary Surgeon or other expert at the Purchasers expense to investigate the purchasers contention and the decision of such Veterinary Surgeon or expert shall be binding on vendor and purchaser. In the event that a Lot is returnable by reason of the matters arising herein, the Vendor shall pay to the Agents the cost to the Agents and to the Purchaser of returning the Lot and the amount of any payment under this Condition payable to the Purchaser shall be fixed by the Agents whose decision shall be final and binding on all parties.
(iv) Should any dispute arise between a Vendor and a Purchaser as to any of the matters referred to in the Condition 3 (iii) hereof, it shall be adjudicated upon by the Agent at such time and in such manner as the Agents in their absolute discretion shall think fit and their decision shall be final and binding on all parties. All expenses and charges incurred by such adjudication shall be borne by the party found to be in error. The Agents shall not be liable as a party in any dispute between the Vendor and Purchaser or in any legal action arising thereof.
4. VETERINARY PROCEDURES
All veterinary examinations will have taken place prior to sale. All lots will be sold with a ‘Certificate of Veterinary Examination of a Horse Prior to Sale at Auction’ from the Vendor.
5. PAYMENT
Payment to Vendors or their authorised Agents, will be made within 30 days after the sale in respect of those animals where payment has been received from the Purchaser. In the event of a defaulting purchaser, the Agents shall not be held liable or responsible for any deficiency which may arise on the resale of an uncleared Lot. The Agents shall use their best endeavours at all times to ensure the completion of a purchaser to the mutual benefit of the Vendor and Purchaser. The Agents shall in their absolute discretion decide the terms and conditions under which a Purchaser shall discharge his payment for any Lot purchased. In the event that the Agents are for any reason unable to secure payment from the Purchaser then the Agents shall not be held liable by the Vendor for the purchase money or any part thereof.
6. DISPUTES
Subject to the foregoing Conditions, the Agents act as the agent of both the Vendor and the Purchaser and to this end, the Agents shall use their best endeavours to act to the mutual benefit of both Vendor and Purchaser. In the event that any dispute arises for whatever reason as between the Vendor and the Purchaser, then the Agents, the Vendor and the Purchaser shall be bound by these Conditions of Sale. The Agents shall not be liable to the Purchaser or to the Vendor in any manner howsoever arising from the sale of any Lot and in the event of any dispute arising in relation to any Lot, the Vendor’s remedy shall be against the Purchaser and the Purchaser’s remedy shall be against the Vendor. In the event that a dispute arises as between Vendor and Purchaser in respect of any Lot before the Agents have paid over any purchase money, the Agents on being notified of the said complaint and dispute between the parties, shall lodge any purchase money in their possession in an interest bearing Deposit Account until such time as the dispute is resolved between the Vendor and Purchaser they both acknowledging to the Agents that the matter has been so resolved. It shall be the obligation of the Purchaser to pursue the resolution of the dispute and in default of prosecution of same, the Agent shall, on notice to the Purchaser, be at liberty to pay out to the Vendor any
money that was withheld on foot of the Purchaser’s complaint, and shall do so unless the Vendor produces evidence to the Agent that legal proceedings have been commenced. In the event that a Vendor or Purchaser initiates legal proceedings, the Agents shall be bound by these Conditions of Sale and by an Order of Court in relation to the matter.
Please find copy of LSL Terms & Conditions here
