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Housewsap Website Is a JOKE!
breadlinebetty
Posts: 896 Forumite
I keep getting SPAM from a Houseswapping website trying to get me to pay to join. I've emailed them and told them to take me off their list but they still keep spamming me.
I did have a look at the website and talk about have a larf!!! The sellers (or swappers) on there stick their own value on their places, then even if they say they want for example £300,000 for it they say they're looking to swap with somewhere between £300,000 and £500,000!!!!
It's a total c*ck up of a site. It's all over the place. People sometimes have a grotty flat in a grotty area and want a nice flat/hose in a better area. What mug is going to swap with that?!
On top of that, people have definite ideas where they want to live, so even if there was a match (which there never is) the people don't want your area - or you don't want theirs. And no one is going to swap their £400,000 semi with a dingy flat worth £250,000!
Has anyone else been pestered by this website?
I did have a look at the website and talk about have a larf!!! The sellers (or swappers) on there stick their own value on their places, then even if they say they want for example £300,000 for it they say they're looking to swap with somewhere between £300,000 and £500,000!!!!
It's a total c*ck up of a site. It's all over the place. People sometimes have a grotty flat in a grotty area and want a nice flat/hose in a better area. What mug is going to swap with that?!
On top of that, people have definite ideas where they want to live, so even if there was a match (which there never is) the people don't want your area - or you don't want theirs. And no one is going to swap their £400,000 semi with a dingy flat worth £250,000!
Has anyone else been pestered by this website?
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The real question is what email software you use that can't filter this stuff out?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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I think your suppose to pay the difference0
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I think ukcarper is correct, in that you pay the difference. I suppose it's meant to be a way to avoid house buying/selling chains, and EAs."You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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barter and swaps without cash balancing the difference are rare and would take us back 5000 years."enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb0
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