Ever been offered a bag of cash....?

moneyistooshorttomention

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

In his home country, in the Mid East, one could simply buy a house like you might buy a second hand piece of furniture. Walk up, present the cash, get the keys. Done.

I wonder if there is a possibility that something similar is what has gone on here?

Xxx

That was what I was assuming was the case with the buyer - ie he was following some other country's norm for housebuying and doesnt realise what our system is here.

The repeated non-acceptance of OP's refusal is probably down to a national norm of someone having to repeatedly state "No" before it's accepted and believed. Again - I assumed he probably doesnt realise that we expect "No" to be heard the first time its said (or, possibly, the second or third time at most).

We do have the thing here that some people won't say "No" directly and will use some other form of words for something they dont wish to do (saying "I'll think about it" for instance - when they've already done the thinking and made the decision) and we are left ourselves thinking "Was that a 'no' or wasnt it?" sometimes and having to ask again in order to get a direct answer.

gregsayer

when buying my new build, the sales lady told me what happened to her a couple of days prior.


a chinese couple, came in and demanded to purchase a house right their and then, even though all of them had been sold, they had brought a large suited gentleman, who wouldnt look out of place outside a east end night club.
depsite being told there was no more houses for sale, they kept going on and on saying they wanted to buy that day, and that they could offer the full price.
the lady told them that this wasnt the process the company followed, and that they would have to go on the waiting list, now by this time the lady was getting a bit worried about the reaction, and was considering hitting the speed dial on her desk phone to call the site office, knowing she could have a dozen brickies in the show house in minutes, when the couple then calmed down, and signaled to the "bouncer" who then proceeded to place a suitcase on the table, opened it, to show it filled with Red bank notes........


at this point she stood up and asked them to leave.......


she never saw them again.............

wwl

Person_one wrote: »

So we've got an Indian couple gazumping, Polish guys taking free stuff, for completeness what nationality/ethnicity are you and the buyer?

The only reason I mentioned the Indian dress was the tacky.out-of-place appearance of the badge on a very beautiful garment , nothing to do with the ethnicity of the couple.
My only implication was that it might have been a cynical tactic to make me more amenable to them.

As regards the Eastern European guys, it was just an aside that they couldn't believe someone was happy to give stuff away

The ethnicity of myself & the buyer are irrelevent - I don't care who I sell to, unfortunately some people seem to like to infer racism from any mention of anything to do with ethicity or cultural differences.

I would say you gave out the wrong message to him - twice over. First you showed him around, then you showed his wife around.

I had no idea how much over the current offer he might have been prepared to pay( especially of there was some additional influence from the mrs) . If it had been significantly more, I may have held off on exchanging for a couple of days & told him to go talk to my estate agent with proof of funds, after making it clear I was only interested in doing it legitimately. I had nothing to lose by letting them see it.

wwl

keith969 wrote: »

Sounds like a scam to me, might be worth reporting it to your local plod.

That is a possiblility, but I have no reason to doubt he genuinely wanted to buy the place, certainly not enough to report to anyone.
From his general attitude I got the distinct feeling that it's entirely possible he'd have messed me about later if I'd proceeded further, which is why I was so adamant that I wasn't interested.

duchy

I don't think it has anything to do with nationality - some people think that because they themselves can be influenced by pure greed everyone else is the same. I've seen the same kind of behaviour from wealthy British people.

wwl

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That was what I was assuming was the case with the buyer - ie he was following some other country's norm for housebuying and doesnt realise what our system is here.

The repeated non-acceptance of OP's refusal is probably down to a national norm of someone having to repeatedly state "No" before it's accepted and believed. Again - I assumed he probably doesnt realise that we expect "No" to be heard the first time its said (or, possibly, the second or third time at most).

We do have the thing here that some people won't say "No" directly and will use some other form of words for something they dont wish to do (saying "I'll think about it" for instance - when they've already done the thinking and made the decision) and we are left ourselves thinking "Was that a 'no' or wasnt it?" sometimes and having to ask again in order to get a direct answer.

This guy had a very local British accent, and was fully aware of how things are done.
The thing was that he just didn't get that for me it wasn't just about the money - his angle was all about trying to convince me that he was able to pay and move quickly.

Alienna

The same thing happened to relatives of my Dad's back in the 60s, (I remember the story, but not who in particular - I wasn't even a twinkle then! ) Apparently a couple of Indian men knocked on this person's door, opened a suitcase filled with money and asked to buy the house! The house wasn't even for sale!

(I mention the fact that he was Indian because this was when a large amount were settling in the UK - West London, where this house was, in particular.)

Wyndham

I think you gave conflicting messages. By doing a (double) viewing you said you may be interested, then refused his offer. If there was a price you would have gone for, then you should have stated it as part of the negotiation. It's all a bit passive-aggressive....

gregsayer

wwl wrote: »

The only reason I mentioned the Indian dress was the tacky.out-of-place appearance of the badge on a very beautiful garment , nothing to do with the ethnicity of the couple.
My only implication was that it might have been a cynical tactic to make me more amenable to them.

As regards the Eastern European guys, it was just an aside that they couldn't believe someone was happy to give stuff away

The ethnicity of myself & the buyer are irrelevent - I don't care who I sell to, unfortunately some people seem to like to infer racism from any mention of anything to do with ethicity or cultural differences.
I had no idea how much over the current offer he might have been prepared to pay( especially of there was some additional influence from the mrs) . If it had been significantly more, I may have held off on exchanging for a couple of days & told him to go talk to my estate agent with proof of funds, after making it clear I was only interested in doing it legitimately. I had nothing to lose by letting them see it.

dont worry WWL, i think 99% of the readers of this thread are intelligent enough to understand there is no negative emotion in your post.

DavidF

Laughing at the suggestion that OP was acting out of morals when later in the thread seller stated that they would/may have moved on the offer if it had been significantly higher.
As a little aside a friend of mines done this about 15 years ago. The asking price was £150k and he went round to the house on the sunday before the vendors were going to choose which of the buyers they would go with. My mate took £5 cash sweetener and a couple of nice bottles of plonk. His gambit was "I will give you £2k cash right now and this is an extra gift IF you agree to sell to me"....They did and he did lol...so it does happen and does work.
I see the government are looking at ending gazumping so hopefully things like this will end.