EAs Squeal like that guy on deliverance

mbga9pgf

Well why did they all squeal like biaches then when Tescos wanted to do a fixed fee service? Why did they all yell that they wouldnt tolerate Tescos advertising on rightmove?

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/money/features-new/mortgages-blog/henry-pryor-4-10-2007.html

Why is there a monopoly whereby I cant advertise my property for a fixed fee on rightmove, as opposed to using less well known websites? I tell you why. Because the system is corrupt, its a monopoly and this correction is a great time for the whole industry to be revolutionized towards fixed fees and self-advertise.

matbe

Fixed price selling has already been tried by Asda in the eighties.

They had estate agents in the stores, they were awful. We had a house with them for 12 months lots of viewers but no sale.

Changed to a normal estate agent house sold in six weeks.

Once they have your money there is no incentive to work at marketing the property if it sells ok if not never mind no loss.

The only incentive is to keep getting more houses to sell and more fixed fees.

mbga9pgf

Well perhaps there should be a fixed time period in which to sell, after which you get the fee back.

And we didnt have righmove in the 80's. Doesnt excuse the disgraceful way in which NAEA acted when tescos tried to set up a much cheaper service does it?

dervish

Generali wrote: »

The OP refers to a film called Deliverance about a group of City dwellers spending a weekend rowing down a river which features a rather nasty anal rape scene towards the end with the rapist shouting "Squeal piggy, squeal" to his unfortunate victim.

I think the reference in the title of the thread is that Estate Agents will end up in a situation analogous to being anally raped by another man.

I've yet to be convinced that homosexual rape is a reasonable response to Estate Agentism.

That is disgusting. What is the OP thinking of when there could be children readint this.

MODS - can you please delete the referecens from teh OP.

Darth_Marty

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Well perhaps there should be a fixed time period in which to sell, after which you get the fee back.

And we didnt have righmove in the 80's. Doesnt excuse the disgraceful way in which NAEA acted when tescos tried to set up a much cheaper service does it?

Yeah fair play, a huge corporation like Tescos would have done wonders for the Estate Agency business, they would prove you right wouldnt they..........

oh.........didnt last long did they.......................

mewbie_2

dervish wrote: »

That is disgusting. What is the OP thinking of when there could be children readint this.

MODS - can you please delete the referecens from teh OP.

to be fair - you did keep asking what it was about. And you were answered. I don't know what age children you are thinking about, but words like anal and homosexual are probably going to enter their language at some stage, may as well be in the fairly non threatening arena that is MSE than in some Chelsea pub.

Really2

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Well why did they all squeal like biaches then when Tescos wanted to do a fixed fee service? Why did they all yell that they wouldnt tolerate Tescos advertising on rightmove?

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/money/features-new/mortgages-blog/henry-pryor-4-10-2007.html

Why is there a monopoly whereby I cant advertise my property for a fixed fee on rightmove, as opposed to using less well known websites? I tell you why. Because the system is corrupt, its a monopoly and this correction is a great time for the whole industry to be revolutionized towards fixed fees and self-advertise.

Quality you want to buy a house from Tesco. So what do they do to suppliers when they have a large enough monopoly, Oh I remember it involves an apple in the mouth.

I think some people are nuts I paid 1.25% to sell my house and they did so august last year in 6 weeks. Advertised and featured in the paper would tesco?

dervish

mewbie wrote: »

but words like anal and homosexual are probably going to enter their language at some stage,.

and thats why they world is the sick horrible place it is today...

mewbie_2

dervish wrote: »

and thats why they world is the sick horrible place it is today...

I disagree. Words like torture-lite, racism, fascism and X Factor are arguably more disagreeable.

mbga9pgf

dervish wrote: »

That is disgusting. What is the OP thinking of when there could be children readint this.

.

Well, unless you have seen the film, you wouldnt understand the reference would you?

Tescos didnt last long because of the disgraceful monopolist behavior from the EA fraternity.

Quality you want to buy a house from Tesco. So what do they do to suppliers when they have a large enough monopoly, Oh I remember it involves an apple in the mouth.

I actually would like a choice. If it was going to be come a death-knell for EAs, tehy would have to modify their business model to survive. Every other sector of the economy goes by this model, why should EAs have special treatment, especially as rightmove, the most well-known online property website does not allow personal adverts...