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Estate Agents - Bah!!!
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The_Plush_Doormat wrote: »There were 3 people
I bet you are not so gob-smacked now 
*walks off trying to extract tongue wedged firmly in cheek*
Ahh I had not picked up on that. Totally understand now.0 -
Where estate agents specify a fee payable when a property sells, they may be luck and have it sell for minimal work, it may not sell at all or take lots of work and negotiation. If it sells, they get paid whether or not they've done a good job. Even if you agreed a fee reduction with the place selling for £100k, it's quite possible that wouldn't apply with a higher price; you can't reduce the fee because you think the agent did not negotiate as you would have liked.
That must have been *some* meeting, by the way.0 -
The point is I didnt agree a specific fee reduction for a sale of £100k, I asked the woman if she would rhelp us and reduce their fee if we accepted a vastly reduced price to secure a sale and the answer was that they would. Then she went back on her word and started threatening me with legals. Along with the fact that she did nothing to assist the sale, thats what I am peeved about.0
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moatmeister wrote: »....Along with the fact that she did nothing to assist the sale, thats what I am peeved about.
It sounds to me you didn't give her much choice.
You 'demanded' a meeting with the others, and then you staked your claim to their office space for FOUR HOURS, denying them the option to use that office for their regular business over that period.0 -
What I mean is they did nothing to assist the sale at all apart freom a very limited amount of marketing from placing the house with them a year previously allthe way through to the final negotiations.0
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What I mean is you seem to have effectively barred them from the final negotiations.....0
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No they had already barred themselves by this point, advising me to accept offer, saying that there was no more money and refusing to go back to the buyer for further discussion0
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