Paying for the high dollar horse?

[HuntrJumpr]

I liked the mental image of someone sitting their double checking that the correct amount of cash was there. '$101,001... 101,002...' :P

[Big_Grey_hunter]

I liked the mental image of someone sitting their double checking that the correct amount of cash was there. '$101,001... 101,002...' :P

[fordtraktor]

...."poor Scott Fitzgerald .... had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.' And how someone had said to Scott, yes, they have more money."

Same story as with the rest of us, bigger figures. Wire transfers clear fastest.

[Janet]

...."poor Scott Fitzgerald .... had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.' And how someone had said to Scott, yes, they have more money."

Same story as with the rest of us, bigger figures. Wire transfers clear fastest.

Hemmingway, I think.

[keepthelegend]

Wire transfer of full funds. Or, occasionally, that, plus a horse or two on trade-in.
Although I was once on the periphery of a sale where the client paid for a six-figure animal in cash, and it made everyone involved quite nervous. Someone offered me cash once, and was really surprised when I said I'd rather have the funds wired. But I couldn't figure out how on earth cash works in that quantity, and was terrified at the prospect (Where do I put it? How do I transport it? Do we all sit there while I count it, or what? Frightening.).

Totally off topic, but reminded me of a time when I sold a car to someone who paid in cash, in a garbage bag, and that's how I brought it to the bank. I am sure there was quite a bit of speculation about what I did to earn that $!

[Rel6]

Totally off topic, but reminded me of a time when I sold a car to someone who paid in cash, in a garbage bag, and that's how I brought it to the bank. I am sure there was quite a bit of speculation about what I did to earn that $!

I get that when I go to deposit my tips from waitressing...I'm make quite a bit per night and only go to the bank once a week. A very judgmental older gentleman glared at me the entire time I counted out my stash. Probably did not help that I had a surprising amount of singles!

[InWhyCee Redux]

Hemmingway, I think.

Actually the critic Mary Colum, in response to Hemingway saying that he was getting to know the very rich -- though Hemingway often takes the credit.

[CaliZ]

Haha, yep my buddy and I are both serving through university and get funny stares! Usually go less than once a week though, once I brought in I think 1700 cash (which really isn't anything outrageous and my teller asked me where I got all the cash. I told her I was a stripper.

[MyssMyst]

Haha, yep my buddy and I are both serving through university and get funny stares! Usually go less than once a week though, once I brought in I think 1700 cash (which really isn't anything outrageous and my teller asked me where I got all the cash. I told her I was a stripper.

WIN! I am officially in love with you.

[buschkn]

Wire transfer of full funds. Or, occasionally, that, plus a horse or two on trade-in.
Although I was once on the periphery of a sale where the client paid for a six-figure animal in cash, and it made everyone involved quite nervous. Someone offered me cash once, and was really surprised when I said I'd rather have the funds wired. But I couldn't figure out how on earth cash works in that quantity, and was terrified at the prospect (Where do I put it? How do I transport it? Do we all sit there while I count it, or what? Frightening.).

Cash makes me nervous too. I spent $21K once where the seller insisted on cash. Another time I bought a horse who was across the country and my SO went to pick him up with $14K in cash. That made me awfully nervous to just send him off into the wild blue with that much cash in the truck. Luckily nothing bad happened, but I much prefer wire transfers unless someone is coming to pick the horse up right away on a weekend or something, but it rarely happens that fast.

I can't fathom having the disposable income to spend $100K+ on a horse, but it's all the same, really, just add a zero. $1K to someone may be a similar relative amount as $10K is to you or $100K is to someone else.

[LimoWrek]

Wire transfer of full funds. Or, occasionally, that, plus a horse or two on trade-in.
Although I was once on the periphery of a sale where the client paid for a six-figure animal in cash, and it made everyone involved quite nervous. Someone offered me cash once, and was really surprised when I said I'd rather have the funds wired. But I couldn't figure out how on earth cash works in that quantity, and was terrified at the prospect (Where do I put it? How do I transport it? Do we all sit there while I count it, or what? Frightening.).

I wonder what they did for a living.. lol..

I never have even 20$ on me, and am terrified when I have a couple hundred in cash. Of course, this is the reason I am positive I will owe California for two tolls I violated en route to a show. If the MTA subway cards in NYC take card, why can't the stupid toll booths in California? I ran out of change and bills in my car. At 1AM, I finally just decided to go through the tollbooth after looking in my car for 20 minutes. I did flash the camera a picture of my frowning face and empty wallet, and had paid all of the second toll but 85 cents.

If they can figure out where to send the ticket (with my Louisiana plates, NY driver's license, and Las Vegas billing address) I'll be surprised though.

[Punkie]

We've always done 80% wire transfer, 20% cash. This way commissions go out in cash and everyone is happy. We've gotten some "deals" because of this practice and people seem to be happy to have us for repeat business.

[findlymine]

they pay for them in pennies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Troispony]

A friend of mine's dad sold his car, hence the horse's name... Lambourghini!

[fordtraktor]

Hemmingway, I think.

Yep, Snows of Kilimanjaro. Supposedly a true story, though, F.Scott was a friend of his. Got kind of peeved about the quote IIRC.

[REH]

Wire transfer of full funds. Or, occasionally, that, plus a horse or two on trade-in.
Although I was once on the periphery of a sale where the client paid for a six-figure animal in cash, and it made everyone involved quite nervous. Someone offered me cash once, and was really surprised when I said I'd rather have the funds wired. But I couldn't figure out how on earth cash works in that quantity, and was terrified at the prospect (Where do I put it? How do I transport it? Do we all sit there while I count it, or what? Frightening.).

I used to work in a tack store where one of the customers was a known stripper and would often pay for her items in stacks of bills. We all handled the money very gingerly. Totally off topic, but somehow not.

[RNB]

I used to work in a tack store where one of the customers was a known stripper and would often pay for her items in stacks of bills. We all handled the money very gingerly.....

And, hopefully, while wearing latex gloves.

[REH]

Actually the critic Mary Colum, in response to Hemingway saying that he was getting to know the very rich -- though Hemingway often takes the credit.

If we want to be technical here, it comes from F. Scott Fitgerald's short story The Rich Boy to which Hemmingway responded in The Snows of Kilimanjaro

[InWhyCee Redux]

If we want to be technical here, it comes from F. Scott Fitgerald's short story The Rich Boy to which Hemmingway responded in The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Quoted from the Yale Alumni Magazine, from Fred Shapiro's 2001 article "Anonymous Was a Woman"

"Ernest Hemingway famously wrote in his short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), "He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of [the rich] and how he had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.' And how someone had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money."

Hemingway's celebrated putdown of Fitzgerald, however, was derived from a witticism another writer had directed at Hemingway himself. According to Matthew J. Bruccoli's Scott and Ernest, Hemingway commented at a lunch in 1936, "I am getting to know the rich." Mary Colum (1884–1957), an Irish literary critic, replied, "The only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money."

[fordtraktor]

That is all the story, NYCRedux, but the quote in my post was from the Snows of Kilimanjaro, so technically the others are correct.