Selling on survey

Guest101

Slinky wrote: »

I appreciate your thoughts on whether you would trust a survey done for somebody else, but that wasn't what I was asking. If the new purchasers want to buy our survey report, do I send it to them or the EA?

Well why don't you ask them? How are strangers on the internet supposed to know??

Slinky

Tewdric wrote: »

There was a clause on the back of a survey we had done on a house that stated we weren't allowed to sell our report onto anyone.

Ooh that's a good point, I haven't checked our report, I'll have a look.

Guest101

Tewdric wrote: »

There was a clause on the back of a survey we had done on a house that stated we weren't allowed to sell our report onto anyone.

It's not really relevant, it's like 'trespassers will be prosecuted' signs

Slinky

Guest101 wrote: »

Well why don't you ask them? How are strangers on the internet supposed to know??

How can I? I don't know who they are at this point and all communication is with the EA. If the EA says to send it to the EA, I don't know if that is what the purchaser would want. I just wanted to find out if anybody else had been in this position what they had done!

I guess if it gets that far, and we ARE able to sell the report on, I'll have to ask the EA to give my details to the purchaser to find out what they want me to do.

greenbee

Guest101 wrote: »

It's not really relevant, it's like 'trespassers will be prosecuted' signs

The surveyor may well have copyright over the content of the survey report, in which case it is relevant. Copyright theft is an offence under criminal law, not just under civil law as breach of contract.

Admittedly it is unlikely to be discovered or if it is, to be pursued (depending on the size of the firm who issued the report, the cost of it, and how rigorous they are in enforcing their copyright), but it's neither advisable nor ethical to sell the survey on if the surveyor has retained the copyright.

You could of course introduce them to your surveyor and say they'd be happy to purchase a reprint of your survey report for a reduced fee as they don't feel enough time has elapsed for it to be necessary to commission another full survey.

System

I would be double checking with the surveyor that you have permission to sell their work - I would imagine that they would need some sort of sign off, as it's their pi cover that would need to be used if any claims are raised on the back of their survey

Slinky

greenbee wrote: »

You could of course introduce them to your surveyor and say they'd be happy to purchase a reprint of your survey report for a reduced fee as they don't feel enough time has elapsed for it to be necessary to commission another full survey.

I can see why the new purchaser would be wanting a reduced fee for a survey we paid for, but what's in it for me if I introduce them to my surveyor? :rotfl: And of course, I've no idea who they are!

The EA does of course know who our surveyor was, and he was the one who approached me to sell the report, rather than our surveyor, which suggests they have had this situation occur before.

Surrey_EA

Slinky wrote: »

which suggests they have had this situation occur before.

Or they don't know what they're doing!

Slinky

Surrey_EA wrote: »

Or they don't know what they're doing!

Long established independent agents apparently.

I'll wait to hear from the EA whether the new purchasers want to buy the report and will then check with the surveyor as the report does say that it's for our use only. I don't want to pi$$ him off as we will use him again when we try to buy again.

It would be nice to be able to recover some of our wasted money if we can do so in a way where everybody is happy.

Thanks for the replies everybody.

Guest101

greenbee wrote: »

The surveyor may well have copyright over the content of the survey report, in which case it is relevant. Copyright theft is an offence under criminal law, not just under civil law as breach of contract.

Admittedly it is unlikely to be discovered or if it is, to be pursued (depending on the size of the firm who issued the report, the cost of it, and how rigorous they are in enforcing their copyright), but it's neither advisable nor ethical to sell the survey on if the surveyor has retained the copyright.

You could of course introduce them to your surveyor and say they'd be happy to purchase a reprint of your survey report for a reduced fee as they don't feel enough time has elapsed for it to be necessary to commission another full survey.

Im not an expert on copyright law, but im certainly unaware of any criminal offences - can you link to the legislation.


that aside, I'd say it's very unlikely to be covered by copyright. Typically these clauses simply prevent a 3rd using the report to go after the surveyor.