I want to tell y'all about a very frustrating experience we had. As our friends know, we recently brought four cows to Hawaii, a mama and three young heifers.
In order to do so, Hawaii required some blood work, a tb test, ear tags, flea and tick dip, and a health certificate to accompany the cows to Hawaii.
After repeatedly asking personnel at Sanpete Veterinary Clinic at 1180 Blackhawk Blvd, Mount Pleasant, UT what were going to be our costs for two blood tests, a tb test, ear tags, a flea/tick dip, and a health certificate (all required by Hawaii), they neglected to tell me about one specific charge.... Not until after they filled out the health certificate did they tell me they were charging me $104 per cow for the health certificate!! That's a total of $416 for one health certificate... For ONE PIECE OF PAPER!!!
Later, I called two other vets in Utah that handle cattle and found out they only charge $35 for this health certificate filling out service. But, Sanpete Veterinary Clinic of Mount Pleasant, Utah charged me $381 more than the other vets would have charged!!
The Sanpete Veterinary Clinic personnel did not inform me of what they decided to charge me for the health certificate until AFTER services were performed, though I had asked them via email and by phone.
No!! Instead the charge was presented to me after they filled out the health certificate, and the cows were on their way that very afternoon leaving for a plane in Los Angeles, Calif. The Sanpete Veterinary Clinic in Mount Pleasant even tried to hold my cows hostage on that very day they were to leave Utah until and unless I paid the bill!! It was highway robbery, literally!!
I could not pay the bill at that time because, for one thing, I didn't have the money on the spot for this final expense they chose to charge me. (The cow's airfare and transportation from Utah to Los Angeles, alone, was about $8,000.)
But, I also felt I needed to have the Sanpete Veterinary Clinic investigated by the state regulatory commission for their extortion practices.
This company needs to be investigated for gouging a customer in another state.
When I wrote the vet to ask him to modify the price to what his competitors charge, he was extremely rude to me, and refused to be reasonable. I paid this vet well over $1000 for their services!!!
And finally, we were forced to pay this remaining $385 to this greedy veterinarian office.
Do the math.. How many papers did you ever pay a fee for that was over $400 just to fill out? That's some mighty expensive transfer of medical records!!
I found this office to be very disingenuous, not forthcoming with the requests I made to tell me the full expenses I could expect, and very greedy for filthy lucre. Not the love they neighbor types. They are "entitled to make a buck!," they said to me.
People should not be taken advantage of like this. All I can advise is to get all expenses in writing and get the service provider to agree in writing that these are all the expenses, IF YOU CAN.... Shameful!! read more