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Unethical Tack Store Owners
To clear up any confusion, I’m not suggesting that some tack store owners are unethical. They all are.
I mean, surely it’s unethical to place rows and rows of saddle pads where horse-less lesson riders will see them and think, “Well, I can’t have a horse right now, but that blue/pink/green/funky patterned one will look great on the schoolie I’m riding now.” It’s worse than dealers standing on street corners offering junkies a quick fix.
Or what about their habit of carrying only a limited stock of blankets? Don’t talk to me about space restrictions; this is clearly a carefully-considered plot. Owner buys Black Beauty a $300 winter blanket in their barn colors. Three days later, Black Beauty tears the blanket up in the pasture, by means that no detective agency will ever be able to discover, and owner returns to the tack store… to find out that, so sorry, there aren’t any more blankets in Black Beauty’s size in the owner’s colors. However, there’s this lovely blanket in a clashing color…. A busted blanket is a genuine emergency, so the owner has no choice. Clashing blanket it is, along with a new halter/lead rope to match clashing blanket. And possibly some polo wraps and a saddle pad or two. Before you know it, the owner’s barn colors have changed. All because the tack store owner didn’t stock their blanket size in the right color. Unethical, I’m telling you.
Or the used-car-salesmanship abilities of the tack store owners–those can’t be legal. I own a pair of sherberty polo wraps now that no thinking person would voluntarily buy. But the tack store owner saw me looking at saddle covers. The next thing I knew, I was walking out of the store with a very nice patterend saddle cover and the sherberty polo wraps to match one of the cover’s accent colors. The details of that transaction are still fuzzy, despite years of attempted hypnotherapy, and I’ve been advised to accept that the sherbert wraps are part of my life (the saddle carrier may be as well, but there are some boxes in the attic I am afraid to open) and that I should be grateful they are good quality and didn’t break down the moment I drove out of the tack store parking lot.
You can’t convince me the tactics tack store owners are ethical. I know better, and I have the wraps to prove it.
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