We've been Gazundered!

sinbad182

You're right, this place would be far better if everyone was as objective and agenda-less as you!

des_cartes

sinbad182 wrote: »

You're right, this place would be far better if everyone was as objective and agenda-less as you!

Thank you. I assume you are referring to my 'agenda' being saving money by buying houses at a lower price. I thought that was what a forum dedicated to saving money was for.

ILW

des_cartes wrote: »

Thank you. I assume you are referring to my 'agenda' being saving money by buying houses at a lower price. I thought that was what a forum dedicated to saving money was for.

Think he may have a point there.

Seems a bit odd that this site is full of good advice about saving a few quid on the phone bill, getting a discount on a car or getting bank charges reduced but when someone talkes about saving 10s of thousands on a house some seem to get onto some sort of moral high horse and consider it wrong.

When_is_the_reset?

des_cartes wrote: »

I don't know about that but i am shocked at the number of people who post on this site who think that rising house prices are a good thing but rising prices for everything else is not. A house is the largest purchase anyone will ever make so surely saving money by buying at a lower price is the biggest saving you will ever make. Maybe this site has been hijacked by property speculators trying to make money out of people by trying to get them to pay over the odds for houses.

I am with you.

A promise to make a contract is not a contract - until contracts are exchanged either party can attempt to amend any aspect. This applies to any transaction - not only houses.

This is a fundamental aspect of English contract law and is amoral.

the_baldman

des_cartes wrote: »

I don't know about that but i am shocked at the number of people who post on this site who think that rising house prices are a good thing but rising prices for everything else is not. A house is the largest purchase anyone will ever make so surely saving money by buying at a lower price is the biggest saving you will ever make. Maybe this site has been hijacked by property speculators trying to make money out of people by trying to get them to pay over the odds for houses.

Rising house prices have wrecked the UK economy. It has made us uncompetitive..it has encouraged excessive debt. It also means that young peopel can not find homes as a reasonable price without enslaving themselves to the banks.

Soubrette

ess0two wrote: »

its everything to do with the sort of person you are. ......Championing gazundering substantially weakens the argument.

Yep - it's not about the gazumpers finally getting their come uppance.

Today's gazunderers would, if given the opportunity, be tomorrow's gazumpers - it is indeed all about what you are.

As an aside, if this site is all about saving money, why does Martin have a regular moral dilemma thread?

des_cartes

the_baldman wrote: »

Rising house prices have wrecked the UK economy. It has made us uncompetitive..it has encouraged excessive debt. It also means that young peopel can not find homes as a reasonable price without enslaving themselves to the banks.

I would totally agree. As well as saving housebuyers tens of thousands of pounds, lower house prices are of great benefit to the economy and to society in general. It puts more money into the pockets of consumers enabling them to spend more in the shps and also reduces the social tension between the haves and the have nots. Hopefully the curse of high house prices in the UK is a thing of the past and the country can return to being a normal place to live again.

sonastin

I thought this site was about maximising your income as much as minimising your outgoings...

But that is beside the point. It is the timing of gazundering that most people find abhorrent not the virtues/vices of negotiating the best deal.

sinbad182

des_cartes wrote: »

Thank you. I assume you are referring to my 'agenda' being saving money by buying houses at a lower price. I thought that was what a forum dedicated to saving money was for.

No, like everything you should buy at the best price possible. On that you are correct. My issue was with you passing off your desire and hope for a major crash as fact in every thread you appear in. You're no better than the likes of hamish and madnesshpc, who peddle their wishes from the other side of the fence.

undetterred

des_cartes wrote: »

I would totally agree. As well as saving housebuyers tens of thousands of pounds, lower house prices are of great benefit to the economy and to society in general. It puts more money into the pockets of consumers enabling them to spend more in the shps and also reduces the social tension between the haves and the have nots. Hopefully the curse of high house prices in the UK is a thing of the past and the country can return to being a normal place to live again.

This site is great,it has enabled me to run up shitloads of credit cards and a loan.
Then get off paying using the un-enforceability templates,truely moneysaving at its best.