Angry Estate Agent

charltonkeston

He's a salesman and has his patter worked out long before you even view the house.
If the house is worth 83k then someone will pay that, its all a bit of a game you have to play.
I always take comments from salesmen with a pinch of salt.

paulsad

former_student wrote: »

Hi All,

I got a dressing down today for time wasting and being rude in relation to a property. Basically I have viewed this little house several times with an interest in purchasing it and I advised the estate agent previously that I would not afford to meet the asking, however he said that all offers would be considered.

later on...

former_student wrote: »

Twice, on the second occassion I placed the bid.

Twice or several ?

nearlyrich

Nowt wrong with looking twice or more at a property it's probably the biggest purchase most people ever make and to only view once is crazy. Also if the OP thought it was worth less than it was on for there is no harm is making a cheeky offer, DD offered £55k on a property on at £79k she got it for £60k, it's a buyers market anyone who is in a position to put an offer in should be taken seriously and any EA who has a pop at a potential buyer is probably feeling the stress of no commission this year.

kk20

bang out of order. Name and shame.

I know an estate agent, they have a habitual "customer" who comes in, does a viewing and offers 20k for all HIGH value property. For each 20k offer they STILL mail the offer to the client and keep it on records. They have never dressed the "customer" down.

I would ask for written confirmation that the offer was given to the vendor.

googler

G_M wrote: »

Go back. Wait till the office is full of punters, then go in and start telling the agent how unprofessional he is.

An EA office 'full' of the public? Today?

Good luck finding one of those. Maybe with a time machine, and go back to 2003.....

hcb42

on the other side of the coin, the OP has not necessarily offered what the house is worth, he has offered what he can afford to pay.

I would also be rather cheesed off if someone viewed my house several times then effectively said they are only offering x as that is what they can afford.

Everyone assumes all houses are overpriced, this is not necessrily the case, even with houses that need work

The_Palmist

Regardless of what you offered, such rude behaviour is not commendable at all. Don't take it to heart, learn from it and do not let another EA treat you the same way. No point mulling over this, you have a house to find.

WhiteHorse

Find out the vendors address and then approach them directly. Mention in passing that the EA has been getting rid of potential purchasors.

Road_Hog

G_M wrote: »

Go back. Wait till the office is full of puntrs, then go in and start telling the agent how unprofessional he is. Do it loudly. Have a little speech prepared so you can keep talking. Don't let him interrupt you, just keep going. Tell him he was rude, unprofessional, not representing his client properly blah blah and do NOT let him get a word in edgeways. Then say you'd never use his agency again and you are going eleswhere and walk out.

If it were me, I'd have you by the collar and be frog marching you out the office.

And, I'd be saying I'm glad you wouldn't consider using the business again.

To the OP

As someone has already said, the offer was a bit cheeky. You knew the asking price and you spent a lot of the EA's time on it. My advice would be, if your budget is so far off the asking price, then you enquire early on as to how realistic its chances of being accepted, at which point both you and the EA would then save a lot of time.

inflationiscoming

Road_Hog wrote: »

If it were me, I'd have you by the collar and be frog marching you out the office.

And, I'd be saying I'm glad you wouldn't consider using the business again.

To the OP

As someone has already said, the offer was a bit cheeky. You knew the asking price and you spent a lot of the EA's time on it. My advice would be, if your budget is so far off the asking price, then you enquire early on as to how realistic its chances of being accepted, at which point both you and the EA would then save a lot of time.

Perhaps you should read the original post again. First paragraph.

OP: this sounds like a typical estate agent pressure selling technique. You did nothing wrong. With the number of sales stagnating you can imagine the pressure is on for agents to keep their jobs / keep their levels of commission up to subsidise their low base wage. When the pressure mounts people can crack. Personally I would write to the manager and ask for a telephone apology from the agent.