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Mary Portas takes on the Estate agents

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  • AnnaV
    AnnaV Posts: 531 Forumite
    Ooh, I shall definitely be watching!
    Anna :beer:
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    I don't think we're supposed to provide full quote rips on here, so heres a taster from the Channel 4 blurb.....

    "Buying a house is the most important purchase of our lives, but Mary thinks estate agents have been letting us down in a big way. Last year complaints rocketed by 40% and Mary's secret cameras show why.
    Estate agents are caught with their trousers down as they pull out........."

    Sounds good to me. :)
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    Why am I so genuinely excited to see the same old rubbish that I have to deal with from real estate agents all the time?!
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 50,195 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Why am I so genuinely excited to see

    ......

    Davesnave wrote: »
    Estate agents are caught with their trousers down as they pull out........."


    :rotfl::rotfl:
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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    Aaaah, that's what it is!
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    Estate Agency business seems to be the next market sector ripe for plucking by the big supermarkets.
  • JanCee
    JanCee Posts: 1,241 Forumite
    I am a big Mary Portas fan so I am looking to see how she deals with Estate Agents. Last weeks episode with mobile phone salesmen was a cracker.
  • WHITEVANMAN
    WHITEVANMAN Posts: 124 Forumite
    kabayiri wrote: »
    Estate Agency business seems to be the next market sector ripe for plucking by the big supermarkets.

    What, Like Tesco's? ;)
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    WHITEVANMAN wrote: »
    What, Like Tesco's? ;)
    Yeah, I'm sure they will spot a profit. I know they are running trials in selected parts of the country at the moment :)
  • MiserlyMartin
    MiserlyMartin Posts: 2,284 Forumite
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    edited 9 February 2011 at 8:56PM
    I watched her prog on the furniture stores. Am I the only person that thinks she is combining BBC watchdog or rogue trader investigation techniques along with her selling her own services? And that the programme is not what its cracked up to be? I feel there is something not right about this programme, it has the same sort of feeling one gets from watching property ladder with that god awful Kirsty Allsop.
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