Schleese Saddlery Service

BEWARE!!! My daughter let Schleese take her saddle on consignment. She was told in October that a buyer was trying it for 30 days. She has not received any payment as of yet and it has now been 3 months. When she tries to contact this company they just give her the run around. They say they do not know when the person started thier trial, they cannot tell her when she will receive her money. What kind of crap is that???
So beware about all of thier talk about how you can resell your saddle so easily with them.

I bought a saddle from Jochen Schleese for over $ 4,000 in 2002. In 2005under moderate use on one horse the gullet plate (the part of the tree that keeps the saddle off of the horse’s back) broke while I was riding.
Jochen came out and took the saddle away (I had to write him a check for $ 420 to come) and shipped it to be fixed. I was out of a saddle for about 2 months. The saddle returned, and my horse went lame and was off work for about 2 years. I put the saddle in the tack room with a cover on it for this period and didn’t use it. As I began to rehab my horse in 2008 we did lots of walking. Once we started trotting it was clear that my horse was much sounder, except. .. the gullet plate of the tree on the saddle broke again WHILE I WAS RIDING! I put several calls and emails into the company in regard to this saddle to no avail. Jochen was too busy to come look at the saddle, and I would need to ship it to Canada to be fixed again. By this time, the dye on the saddle had faded and it looked green rather than the black color it was. When I asked about their warranty, and they basically told me that their warranty would not hold up in a court since they are a canadian company. I was out of luck with the saddle. In the end I gave up and handed the saddle over to one of the California Reps, Christiana Nolting, telling her I never wanted to see the saddle again.
Stay away from the Schleese saddle company, the gullet plates notoriously break, and as they are in another country, they will not stand by their product. Only for the good «salesmanship» (read slimey sheister) of Jochen are they in business at all.