Ruffian wrote:
How much time elapsed? I just don't know why a team would release 20000 on monday and then on Thursday go "oops" and change it to 19998. If they did then I would just question why I'd ever want to give them a pass or another minute of my time. I would much they have this as a solution than what we had previously which was no cap and then you had problems if someone threw a tantrum and sold everything.
Weeks, even months in some cases based on what some people have said. But, that's besides the point, if the horse was sold before the cap was set, teams should not have the power to make that horse more or less useless to the buyer if it happens to be over that amount. Yeah, it stops leaks and allows teams to control where their stock goes, but that shouldn't come at someone else's expense, especially when they have forked over a lot to own the horse in the first place.
Teams have an obligation to ensure that the horses they sell are under or equal to their max, it isn't on the buyer to know what the team's max GP is and avoid horses, nor is is on them to take the loss when the team does sell an over GP horse before they set the cap
It's kinda like buying a phone, but then the company realizing they released it several months early, so, instead of correcting it by offering a refund, they prevent those phones from being used until they're released and refuse to give the money back to the buyers. Both cases take the customers money and both stop the customers from using the product they have bought due to a fault the company made.
I like the change, I like that it protects the work of the team, but what I don't like is how it gives teams the power to sell top stock for a high price and then make it useless. What would be fair is for the cap to apply to any horse owned by the team at the time it is set, whereas horses sold prior to the cap will not have it applied to them, as they would have been bought with the knowledge that they can be bred.