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Sale Terms & Conditions

Sifting Process @ the Sale We reserve the right to refuse bidding to anyone. Exemption Form out and turn it into our office before

• Sound of limb – visible unsoundness, structural problems • Online Bidding: is provided by our company MM paying for your purchase. Only resellers will provide a sales
or unsoundness, including but not limited to ringbone Auction Services, LLC. Go to Premieronlinesales.com tax license number on the form. All buyers agree to not place
(not to be construed for a pre-purchase exam). and you can find it under current auctions at that link. any kind of charge back on any payment made towards the
• Sound in wind (no cribber or wind sucker) Click on “How it Works” to get started or call with purchase of a mule.
• Arena work – Catch, bridle, saddle, pickup all 4-feet easily, questions. There will be a 1% online buyers fee applied to Private Sales:
ride off with tight cinch – lope away no problem. all online winning bids. Online bidders have 2 payment
• Minor abrasions, cuts, or sores may be sifted unless it is choices, credit card or ACH (e-check). We do charge a Absolutely no private sales with trainers either prior to the
likely to heal normally without veterinarian treatment and 3% convenience fee to pay with a credit card or debit card sale or after the auction. Trainers have given MM Auction
cause no long-term threat. (International 4%). Make sure you plan accordingly and Services, LLC Exclusive Rights for selling the consigned
• Trainer understands that if their mule doesn’t pass all notify your bank of the charges. Any returned e-check mules. All mules brought to the sale must go through the
stages of Premier Mule Sales’ sifting process, they will charges will be accessed a $500 fee and required to wire auction ring. Any mules “no sold” in the ring but sold outside
be pulled from the sale and consignment fee is forfeited. the balance same day plus the $500 fee. International are expected to report it to the office. We will leave it up to
Sifting includes the trail course and any other events MM bidders have 2 payment options of credit/debit card (4% the integrity of the seller to make sure this happens so the
Auction Services sees fit. If we decide they’re out, they are convenience fee) or wire transfer. Once we have confirmed seller will be welcome back to the sale.
OUT! Bring your BEST! you are a customer in good standing with your bank, we Trainer’s Guarantee:
will send you an “approval to bid” email. Watch for emails
Pre-purchase Exam in your spam folder. Based upon representations made solely by the mule trainer,
• Trainers are required to provide a pre-purchase/soundness • Phone Bidding & Absentee Bidding: Serious buyers all mules consigned have passed our sifting process prior
exam completed by a licensed veterinarian no less than 2 only! There will be a 2% buyer’s premium fee applied to to the sale. All mules are sold guaranteed sound by the
weeks prior to sale day to our office via email. all phone and absentee winning bids. To bid on more than trainer only that at the time of sale the mule was sound of
• X-rays – A vet will be on site for all Buyers imaging needs. 4 mules, you must first pay $100 per additional head to limb, wind, and eye unless other announcements are made
Buyers understand that if they want any images of mules, bid. This payment is non-refundable but will be applied from the auction block. This soundness guarantee shall
they will schedule with the vet and trainer to have those to your final statement if you purchase a mule. In order to be exclusively between buyer and seller only and does not
done ahead of sale day at buyer’s expense. bid, you will need to fill out our Phone/Absentee Bidding include any other persons. Buyer understands and agrees
• As provided in the Standard Conditions of Sale contained Form. All registered phone bidders are required to provide that MM Auction Services is not responsible to perform
in the Sales Catalogue and on our website, each Lot us with a payment form prior to bidding. New bidders any inspection or to independently confirm or verify the
purchased is purchased, at the fall of the hammer, with need to provide us with their bank contact information, soundness of Trainer’s mule. Buyer understands and agrees
all defects and deficiencies, latent and patent, subject to bank account number (last 4 digits), and copy of driver’s that MM Auction Services is unaware of the condition
the exceptions set out in the said Standard Terms and license. of Trainer’s mule, and therefore is relying solely upon
Conditions of Sale, or, announced prior to the auction • Agent Bidding: Buyer and agent are required to fill out representations made by Trainer regarding the condition
of a Lot. The Buyer acknowledges that it is his sole the Agent’s Authorization Form completed with a notary of the mule and that the mule is sound. All soundness
responsibility to determine the quality, accuracy and signature. Both the authorization form and registration guarantees do not include any time period following the sale
completeness of the Pre-purchase Exam and to obtain form need to be emailed to info@mmauctionservices.com including transportation. Buyers are encouraged to purchase
independent advice with respect thereto from a registered along with a copy of the agent and bidder’s driver’s license. equine insurance to protect their investments. Shall any
soundness disputes arise; the buyer must contact the seller
veterinarian.
Payment: and settle the dispute between the two of them and Buyer
Bidding: Payment in full is required to be made to MM Auction agrees to indemnify, release and hold harmless MM Auction
Bidders have 4 options to bid: onsite, online, phone, or agent Services immediately after the sale by credit card, cash, Services, Colby or Codi Gines, Chrome in the Canyon
bidding. See our “Register to Bid” page to get registered check, or e-check. International purchases are payable only Premier Mule Sale, or Bryce Canyon Mule Days to and
for our next sale. New Bidders are required to provide bank by credit/debit card or wire transfer. A 3% convenience from any claims, liability or damages which may be asserted
contact information, and bank account number (last 4 digits) fee will be charged if payments are made with a credit or by buyer of the mule on account of any breach of warranty,
so we can verify your account in order to obtain a bidder debit card (4% international). By making payment with breach of promise or alleged misrepresentation. In the event
number. Please know that all online & phone bidders must your card, you acknowledge that you waive the right for a it is determined that the defect was present at the time of
be registered by noon the day before the sale. Any online return of mule(s) along with any and all refunds of monies sale, the trainer is required to trade the buyer a mule of same
or phone bidders trying to register after this deadline, are paid, etc. in conjunction with any purchases at this sale/ value. If the mule is determined not to have the alleged
not guaranteed to bid. All bidders must be at least 21 years auction from MM Auction Services, LLC. MM Auction defect, the sale of said mule is valid and enforceable and
of age. The highest bidder is the buyer. If any dispute arises Services is a pass-through agency and does not hold funds purchaser assumes all costs of examination, treatment, and
between or among two or more bidders, sole authority to for guarantees, returns or refunds of monies paid on animals sale purchase price. Soundness does not guarantee pass of a
settle the dispute as he sees fit is reserved by the auctioneer purchased at auction. There is an 8.1% sales tax rate in Utah check by any vet or trainer following the sale. Buyers are to
and the decisions shall be final. Seller reserves the right to and will be applied to all winning bids. For Utah residents, ride and visit the mule before the sale giving them confidence
waive the sale (bids) of his/her mule before it leaves the ring. you will be required to fill a Resident Exemption Form out they need to bid come sale day. If they want additional
The auctioneer reserves the right to reject any or all bids. The and turn it into our office before paying for your purchase. x-rays, they need to have them completed before the sale at
auctioneer completes sale of a horse at the fall of the gavel. For a nonresident, you will be required to fill a Nonresident their own expense. The buyer understands and agrees that
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