This thread came to my attention from the post today.
If you want to buy a show dog from a reputable show breeder, it will be in cash or cheque, not paypal or credit cards. Why? A reputable show breeder for one thing is not going to sell off the internet so paypal is useless. Credit cards also are useless to the showbreeder as they would not be selling a lot of dogs anyway and would not carry credit card stuff for people to pay them that way. For the reputable show breeder it is not a business.
You will be seeing the breeder in person visiting her or him, providing you can convince him or her to sell to you in the first place. If you haven't convinced them, you won't be walking through the door into their home.
Whether it is a dog or a bitch, it will be co owned with the breeder and there will be private contracts that are getting more complicated all the time as everytime a hole in a contract is patched, some enterprising buyer comes up with a way around it and the show breeder ends up getting screwed. A contract is only as good as the person you are dealing with which many have found out the hard way and got into situations they regretted as they had been had.
Therefore, it is also getting a heck of a lot harder for anyone to buy a reasonably good show dog from a reputable show breeder unless they know you and/or you have a bit of a track record of being honourable. |