Fake queue outside estate agent :)

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The ramping with zero substance has gone into overdrive, desperation is too milder word to use.:rotfl:

A Belfast house builder has been criticised for staging a queue of first-time buyers outside an estate agents, in a bid to stimulate interest in a new development.
The PR agency for Bradkeel Developments, which is building Belfast's Sugar Walk scheme, sent out a press release entitled 'Worth the Wait', with photos of people queueing, one sat in a deckchair and wrapped in a sleeping bag.

http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/06/08/68448/belfast-developer-fakes-queue-outside-estate-agents-photos.html

lostinrates

Thats quite funny really. You can't blame people for trying

nearlynew

Keeps the unemployment figures down I suppose.

Every little helps

lostinrates

nearlynew wrote: »

Keeps the unemployment figures down I suppose.

More good news!

mewbie_2

One of the actors, unemployed builder Mick O'Malley said it was not a bad job in the current climate. "The only problem is that Pasturesnew coming past and shouting !!!!!! at me every ten minutes"

Cat695

ad this is a joke right......you have just found a photo and added your own words....because surely after all the so called "good news" this isn't needed


I mean you just have to look at all the comments on here about the reccesion is over and house prices are rising (which I have yet to see on rightmove)

EA's you gotta love them.

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Cat695 wrote: »

ad this is a joke right......you have just found a photo and added your own words....because surely after all the so called "good news" this isn't needed


I mean you just have to look at all the comments on here about the reccesion is over and house prices are rising (which I have yet to see on rightmove)

EA's you gotta love them.

The spring bounce has given some folk a reason to be cheerful Cat, it won't be long before normal service is resumed , as the last time I checked, house prices never trend upwards in a recession, then when we try to emerge from recession, we will have to pay the government's credit card bill, which will be rather large and quite nasty, all this on our reduced income from pay cuts and pay freezes.

StevieJ

ad9898 wrote: »

The spring bounce has given some folk a reason to be cheerful Cat, it won't be long before normal service is resumed , as the last time I checked, house prices never trend upwards in a recession, then when we try to emerge from recession, we will have to pay the government's credit card bill, which will be rather large and quite nasty, all this on our reduced income from pay cuts and pay freezes.

Spoilsport, miseryguts I keep forgetting that you want all this misery to happen :eek:

mewbie_2

StevieJ wrote: »

Spoilsport, miseryguts I keep forgetting that you want all this misery to happen :eek:

B4stard. You edited it before I could take the mickey.

ad9898_3

StevieJ wrote: »

Spoilsport, miseryguts I keep forgetting that you want all this misery to happen :eek:

It's not about wanting Steve, I'm just dealing with the facts, that bill is going to be very large and painful to deal with, of course I could just stick my fingers in my ears, shut my eyes and pretend everything will be fine........ however back in the real world, away from media rampers, EA's, VI's, things will be very different.;)

brit1234

Belfast developer 'fakes queue' outside estate agents - PHOTOS

A Belfast house builder has been criticised for staging a queue of first-time buyers outside an estate agents, in a bid to stimulate interest in a new development.

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The PR agency for Bradkeel Developments, which is building Belfast's Sugar Walk scheme, sent out a press release entitled 'Worth the Wait', with photos of people queueing, one sat in a deckchair and wrapped in a sleeping bag.:mad:


Below: 'Buyers' queue outside the Templeton Robinson estate agent.





The press release claimed: "A group of potential purchasers queued outside the Templeton Robinson estate agent's Lisburn Road office yesterday, preparing to register for an iconic apartment in the Sugar Walk complex, based in the heart of Cathedral Quarter in Belfast."

However, the photos have been exposed as at least partially fake, according to the Irish Times. The woman in the deck chair at the head of the queue is actually a model paid by PR agency Michelle McTernan Management.


"I did put a good-looking girl at the front of the queue and paid for her to be there as a model," admitted the agency's Michelle McTernan. "I know if there's someone good-looking in the photograph it has more chance of being in the papers."

Bradkeel Developments' Paul Fitzsimons defended the stunt, saying the other people standing in the photos were genuine potential buyers who had been told to gather there last Thursday to receive brochures and see a special sculpture of the complex made from sugar cubes.


He said deposits had been paid on 35 of the apartments retailing from £135,000.
John Davis of property consultants Davis and Armstrong, told the newspaper: "Everyone and his dog is trying to talk up the market so that people again feel panicked that they should get back on to the ladder.


"The reality is that there is very little demand for property in the north of Ireland."


http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/06/08/68448/belfast-developer-fakes-queue-outside-estate-agents-photos.html


:exclamati Girls and Guys don't fall for the baseless ramping again like the last few years. Ignore the ramping of these groups with a vested interest in property. Instead follow the advice of independant economic experts.:exclamati