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Originally Posted by Kathryn_V In most cases I thing the whole Puppy broker thing is a scary idea.... but since I am about to become on.... I have to say that I voted option #3.
I will be selling a Pup for my grand mother in the next week, and then once her next litter is ready, I will advertise and sell them for her too.... That kinda makes me a Puppy Broker. Buyers wont get to meet her (the litter owner), they won't get to meet the Stud, unless they want to drive to another location to meet him... They will be comming to my home and meeting me. I will show them the puppies, and I will be interviewing them.
Am I bad? I don't think so? will I profit from doing this for her? You bet I will! I am doing Three months of Puppies! Thats cleaning feeding and all of the up keep... I don't even need to tell some of you what a litter of 5 puppies pooping at 8 to 10 weeks is like! Heck yes I will profit! I'm not doing it out of the kindness of my heart! (boy that sounded really bad!) But I am not making a killing... I am just paying myself for my time.... The price of the puppies will not go up... but the amount she will get for them will go down.... And she thinks that is only fair!
So I'm kinda a Broker cause they aren't mine, but not really cause I am raising them??? But for the one I am selling next week... I am so a Broker!
So I think that sometimes a "Puppy Broker" If thats what you would call me.... Can be a good person... But its the exception and not the rule! |
I have no idea how you plan on interviewing and approving homes, what kind of guarantees you can give via your grandmother the actual breeder, whether or not registrations will be provided etc.
But if someone told me they heard of you and asked if they should buy from you my answer would be only if they could still meet your grandmother, see her other yorkies including the mother to the puppies, get the health guarantee in writing from her that both she and the buyer can review, sign and agree. If purebred will I get registration papers and who do I go after if anything goes wrong, you or your grandmother and will I have the legal foot to stand on to pursue either of you if something goes wrong?
All puppies are usually cute it is the adults from this breeder I am most interested in seeing as that is what this puppy will likely grow up to look like. Otherwise I would not buy from you if I were a potential puppy buyer nor would I recommend anyone else to buy under these circumstances.
Very seldom when I am selling a puppy do I own the Stud. Often I can show a picture that has been featured in the YOrkshire Terrier Magazine or refer to the breeder who owns the stud and who has been around and well known showing her dogs 20+ years.
I am sure you are wanting to help your grandmother and make a few bucks yourself but these are live animals you are dealing with not stereo equipment which actually does have at least a one year guarantee sometimes two sometimes three years if you purchase extended warrantees.