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Sale Terms & Conditions

Soundness Exam & Images your max is truly your max. The highest bidder is the for payment following the sale. Make sure you plan
Trainers are required to provide a sale soundness buyer. If any dispute arises between or among two accordingly and notify your bank of the charges. Be
exam including images. X-rays required consist of or more bidders, sole authority to settle the dispute sure to listen carefully when the clerks read your
AP and Lateral radiographs of the navicular as well as he sees fit is reserved by the auctioneer and the account information back to you. Any returned
as Skyline Navicular views and oblique views of the decisions shall be final. Seller reserves the right to e-check charges will be accessed a $500 fee and
hocks. Stallions selling as a breeding stallion are waive the sale (bids) of his/her horse before it leaves required to wire the balance same day plus the $500
required to provide verification of fertility with a the ring. The auctioneer reserves the right to reject fee. Any credit card payments declined by the buyer’s
semen evaluation. any or all bids. The auctioneer completes sale of a bank for any reason will be assessed a $500 fee and
• Buyers understand that if they want additional horse at the fall of the gavel. We reserve the right to required to wire the balance same day plus the $500
images of horses or a sale exam of their own, they refuse bidding to anyone. Anyone can/will be asked to fee. International bidders have 2 payment options
will have those done ahead of sale time at buyers’ leave or banned from bidding if problems arise. of credit/debit card (4% convenience fee) or wire
expense. • International Bidders: Register onsite, online, transfer only. All buyers agree to pay $100/day late
• All horses selling at Premier Horse Sales are or by phone. A letter from your bank is required fee for any reason their invoice is not paid directly
required to have a sale soundness exam done by a to be an approved bidder. Email a letter on your following the sale same day. Any buyers that ask to
licensed veterinarian in order to sell. bank’s letterhead stating you bank with them and hold checks for any reason, will be charged $100/
• Sale exams can be done as early as 6 months all accounts are in good standing. Email to info@ day fee in order for us to do so. By making payment,
before sale day but no sooner and will be posted mmauctionservices.com. you acknowledge that you waive the right for a
on our website at least 1 month prior to sale day if • Onsite Bidders: Register at the sale office anytime return of horse(s) along with any and all refunds of
not sooner. by bringing your driver’s license and credit card as monies paid etc. in conjunction with any purchases
• Some trainers will include extra x-rays as well but a form of payment to have on file whether you plan at this sale/auction from MM Auction Services, LLC
it’s not required. If buyers want more than the to pay this way or not. DBA Premier Horse Sales. MM Auction Services is
required sale exam & images, they are required • Online Bidders: Online Bidding is provided by a pass-through agency and does not hold funds for
to get it done before the sale at their expense. An our company, MM Auction Services, LLC. Go to guarantees, returns or refunds of monies paid on
onsite vet is provided at almost all sales to assist Premieronlinesales.com and you can find it under animals purchased at auction. All current county and
with requests the day before the sale. current auctions at that link. Click on “Buyer state sales tax rates will be applied to all winning bids.
• X-rays are viewable on our website as early as 3 Resources” to get started or call with questions. In order to be tax exempt, appropriate forms will need
months before sale day up to sale day and then the There will be a 1% online buyers fee applied to to be filled out and to our office BEFORE sale day or
system automatically deletes them when the gavel all online winning bids. You’ll need to create an exemption will not be granted. All buyers agree to not
drops. We do not keep x-rays past sale day. account with our online platform first. Once we place any kind of charge back on any payment made
• The deposit and inspection of X-rays, and access to have verified your accounts with your bank, we towards the purchase of any horse.
the repository are subject to our Repository Terms will send you an “approval to bid” email. Watch for
& Conditions listed on our website. All buyers emails in your spam folder. Buyer’s Guarantee
accept the Repository terms and conditions when • Phone Bidders & Absentee Bidders: Serious buyers Buyer’s guarantee to not request x-rays, vet exams, or
accepting these terms and bidding at sale. only! There will be a 2% buyer’s premium fee any images or content from any vet after purchasing a
• Each buyer is encouraged to instruct their applied to all phone and absentee winning bids. To horse. Bidders guarantee to get all exams and images
registered veterinarian to inspect the X-rays for bid on more than 4 horses, you are required to first needed from a vet prior to bidding or registering for
each Lot and physically inspect each Lot prior pay $100 per additional head to bid. This payment this sale allowing them to have the confidence prior
to the purchase thereof. As provided in the is non-refundable but will be applied to your final to the horse selling in order to bid. Bidders guarantee
Standard Conditions of Sale contained in the Sales statement if you purchase a horse. In order to bid, that when they click to bid online or say “yes” by
Catalogue and on our website, each Lot purchased you will need to fill out our phone/absentee bidding phone bidding, they will pay the fees listed below
is purchased, at the fall of the hammer, with all form to submit with a copy of your driver’s license. even if they determine they “didn’t mean” to bid or
defects and deficiencies, latent and patent, subject Our clerks will contact you for a form of payment to call it an accident. If you click to bid online, you are
to the exceptions set out in the said Standard have on file. New bidders need to provide us with entering a legal binding contract. It doesn’t matter
Terms and Conditions of Sale, or, announced prior their bank contact information, last 4 digits of bank whether you bid accidentally or someone else bids
to the auction of a Lot. The Buyer acknowledges account number, and copy of driver’s license. for you under your account. Same goes for phone
that it is his sole responsibility to determine the • Agent Bidders: Buyer and agent are required to fill bidding. We call the number you provide and the
quality, accuracy and completeness of the sale out the Agent’s Authorization Form and include a person on the other end is the bidder and has final
exam and to obtain independent advice with copy of the agent and bidder’s driver’s license. Our say. Bidding and winning but not paying for the horse
respect thereto from a registered veterinarian. clerks will contact the buyer for a form of payment will result in fees due for loss of income to both the
Bidding: to have on file. seller ando ... 10% of the determined sale price to MM
Bidders have 4 options to bid: onsite, online, phone, Payment: Auction Services for loss of income & distress
• $750 nomination fee to the seller for loss of
or agent bidding. See our “Register to Bid” page
income & distress
on our website to get registered for our next sale. Payment in full is required to be made to MM Auction • $1,000 advertising fees to the seller for loss of
Services immediately following the sale. Onsite
All bidders are required to be at least 18 years of
income & distress
age. Online bidders nor any pre-bids will not have bidders can pay by credit card, cash or check. A • $10,000 training fees to the seller for loss of
3% convenience fee will be charged if payments are
precedence over floor bids. All bids are placed to
income & distress
the auctioneer and auctioneer accepts the ones he made with a credit or debit card. Online and phone • $3,500 travel fees to the seller for loss of income &
bidders have 2 payment choices only, credit card
sees/hears first. Setting max bids online does not
guarantee the bidder winning for that amount over a or ACH (e-check). All online and phone bidders will distress
need to patiently wait for our clerks to contact you
floor bidder. To help avoid this happening, make sure • Plus the final sale price of the horse and all fees
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