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Soon it will be bumper September according to EAs

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  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    lossofbargain wrote: »
    why do EAs fool themselves. Irrespective of snow, worldcup, summerholidays, people who need to find a home will find a home.the whole of the UK doesnt leave the UK in summer.

    It's weird how Estate Agents come for so much flak for talking up their industry. Is there any industry that doesn't lie knowingly about what they do?

    Having a nice car doesn't make you cool, but the car industry tells you it does. Creams don't make you younger, yet the entire beauty industry tells you it does. Special K doesn't make you slim, yet all the marketing campaigns say it does. Every single product / industry uses spin, embelishments and plain lies to sell stuff wherever they can so estate agents are just the same really.
  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    The last time I dropped a cat it didn't bounce back up to the level I dropped it from over a period of about 18 months.

    So I just put them in wheelie bins now.

    Topical. I like it. ;)
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Is there any industry that doesn't lie knowingly about what they do?

    Must admit I never said, "Mrs Jones, Kevin is an indolent little toe-rag, who uses his two brain cells almost entirely for evil purposes, leaving no spare capacity for any intellectual activity."

    Instead, I'd probably come out with some drivel, like, "Mrs Jones, I'm afraid that Kevin has found our work this year very challenging, so he has sometimes lost focus in the classroom, but on the whole, he is making the progress we would expect for a boy of his ability."

    It's all about persuading people to adjust their expectations, innit? ;)
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    The last time I dropped a cat it didn't bounce back up to the level I dropped it from over a period of about 18 months.

    So I just put them in wheelie bins now.
    off topic i know but didn't Top Cat live in a bin - he didn't have a problem with it.
  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    off topic i know but didn't Top Cat live in a bin - he didn't have a problem with it.
    Does rewired live in a bin?
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Exocet wrote: »
    Does rewired live in a bin?

    No, just licks them.
  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    No, just licks them.
    Do you think he uses one login to do the thanking thing, and some others to post stuff?
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    I love rewired
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    nearlynew wrote: »
    I love rewired
    He is omnipresent. But only at certain times of the day. Or night.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Exocet wrote: »
    Do you think he uses one login to do the thanking thing, and some others to post stuff?

    I really don't know, I think hamish might be right with his "The stig" quote for him.

    I found it even odder he even thanked you for saying he lived in a bin.:)
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