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EA did exactly the right thing, obviously overpriced or you would have had an offer by now, what the viewers said were just excuses to be polite. You are over reacting OP. She said what she said to hook the buyer in0
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I'm going through this as a seller and I think the EA was lying. If they were telling the truth, instead of this
"it is 260 k but we ( EA) valued it 255k just the vendors wanted to go with 260k so you have some room for negotiation."
they would have said this,
it is worth no more than 255 k but we ( EA) valued it 260k because they wouldn't have sold through us unless we did. So you have some room for negotiation."0 -
kdotdotdotdot wrote: »As a recent buyer, I've had this same conversation with every EA on a house tour. It's on my list of questions to ask: 'is there any flexibility in the asking price' and every EA except one has said there was.
Similar experience here. The "no" was a case where the asking price had just been reduced. Quite reasonably, the vendor wanted to see if it would sell at the new price - and it did(My username is not related to my real name)0 -
MacMickster wrote: »Imagine a company sales rep talking to a prospective buyer and saying that they believe their employers goods to be overpriced. They would be out on their ear pronto.
To be fair, most corporate sales reps let it be known when there is room for negotiation. A sales rep in a competitive market who simply said "I have no idea whether there could be negotiation on price" or "the price is fixed" would not make very many sales.0 -
The EA saying " it is 260 k but we ( EA) valued it 255k just the vendors wanted to go with 260k so you have some room for negotiation." is not appropriate and I would complain to them.
If they had just left it at " the price is £260k but there might be room for negotiation" that's pretty standard stuff and I wouldn't complain unless you had instructed them that you would not be accepting a penny less than £260k0
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