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Expensive To Call Estate Agents
rumbaba
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Why is it that nearly all the estate agents on Rightmove have an expensive 0845 telephone number to contact them? Why don't they put their ordinary business number on there?
This really annoys me. I pay my telephone company extra for free national landline phone calls, so I don't see why I should not only pay to contact these estate agents (and give them potential business) - but pay over the odds by calling an 0845 number!
Why do they do this?
This really annoys me. I pay my telephone company extra for free national landline phone calls, so I don't see why I should not only pay to contact these estate agents (and give them potential business) - but pay over the odds by calling an 0845 number!
Why do they do this?
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Why is it that nearly all the estate agents on Rightmove have an expensive 0845 telephone number to contact them? Why don't they put their ordinary business number on there?
This really annoys me. I pay my telephone company extra for free national landline phone calls, so I don't see why I should not only pay to contact these estate agents (and give them potential business) - but pay over the odds by calling an 0845 number!
Why do they do this?
I can't answer your question but I just thought the bit I highlighted was ironic! :rotfl:
They don't sound like 'free' calls if you are paying for them!0 -
I always check the internet for the Estate Agents site (or Yell.com) for their local number. Of course if they are local you could call in or use a directory!"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him no good."(Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
Lots of years in financial services, still learning!0 -
Is it the agent - or is it Rightmove?
Note, however, that it's an 0845 number and I thought that was charged at the local rate
I just Google the Agent's name.Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac
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It will be a Rightmove allocated number, so that they can go back to the EA and say that 'we know you received x number of calls from us in 2007/8'.
It's a marketing thing. You'd be surprised how many companies don't know where their business is coming from and this enables Rightmove to take the credit and get their business the following year.I am a Mortgage Consultant and don't like to be told what I can and can't put in a signature so long as it's legal and truthful.0 -
Well you could Google search the agent names, usually this turns up the agent's website which will have a (conventional geographical) office number you can call directly.
I suspect Rightmove pockets the revenue from the 0845 calls to sustain their business. I personally never ring the numbers, I usually use the (free) e-mail or look up the agents as stated above.0 -
When you click for full details of the property, you often can find an ordinary EA's numbers somewhere on the page, be it right at the top or near the bottom of the details. Not always, but it does happen.Spring into Spring 2015 - 0.7/12lb0
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You could use "say no to 0870" to find their office number.This is an open forum, anyone can post and I just did !0
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0845 is a local number(used to be called lo-call)
0870 is national
0845 is slightly cheaper than if say you were calling a direct number at the other end of the country. These are called non-geographical numbers.
Anyway, its only a few pence for each call. I am with TalkTalk and the charges include free calls weekends and evenings to geographical numbers. But with what I am saving over being with BT I am still "quids in"0 -
Just Google the estate agents, that's what I always do.0
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As mentioned above:
https://www.saynoto0870.com0
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