Game: find some old "there won't be a crash" posts.

tomstickland

I found three before losing interest.
All good fun for the history.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=515113&highlight=house+price
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=520634&highlight=house+price
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=560992&highlight=house+price

neverdespairgirl

A good couple of posts on your first thread, from hearts:

"Quite simply I keep bashing them because they are and always have been wrong.
People have written here that they talk a lot of sense and a lot of what they say on their site has come true, but the very reason for their site was/is to predict a HPC, it hasn't happened and I don't think it will."

"I agree with this but rather than a crash I think they will flatten out and stay flat for a while."

Snooze

There's a far easier way of finding such posts. Just search for anything by Mr. Broderick or Pickles .....

:rotfl:

Rob

tomstickland

skap7309 wrote: »

Dont mean to be rude - and i am all FOR a good ol' fashioned crash - but do these threads not highlight forecasts of a slow down/crash?

Failing to see the point...........

Yes, I've been quite suprised by the volume of sensible posts from back then.

The point is to find the most aggressively confident "they won't be any fall in prices" style poster so we can remember how it was.

tomstickland

First search brings this:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5982207&highlight=house+price#post5982207

and this:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5001083&highlight=house+price#post5001083

m00m00

pickled pink was the most aggresive of the hpi cheerleaders from what I remember

MrDT

tomstickland wrote: »

The point is to find the most aggressively confident "they won't be any fall in prices" style poster so we can remember how it was.

There was a dangermouse or dangerman or something like that a little while back - a twenty year old btl gazillionairre with a porche and a firm belief that it was 'different this time'. I wonder how he's doing these days.

MrDT

tomstickland wrote: »

First search brings this:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5982207&highlight=house+price#post5982207

and this:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5001083&highlight=house+price#post5001083

I been gone an got mah snoop on and dug up a doozie
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2889878&postcount=1

No wonder spursnut trolls here, 100%+ on shared ownership!? :rotfl:

borntobefree

Hi,

I never seen the crash coming but I wasn't really looking for it to be honest;). I watched the credit crunch and the fall in US house prices and thought - might not happen here as "demand is strong". Think I started getting interested when the Rock went and then slowly seeing the impact on banking in the UK. When Libor moved away from BOE I think I knew we were screwed.

Interestingly, I do think the internet has made this a different crash from the early 1990's - sites like HOC.co.uk & maybe even MSE.

When I did "wake-up"/ "have a light bulb moment" I learned alot from you guys. - and much quicker than I would have done 15 years ago. You got me quickly up to speed.:D:cool:

PasturesNew

I remember there was some issue with the servers about 6 months ago and it might be that not all old posts were able to be resurrected and brought forward to today's platform.

Which is why the history doesn't seem to go back far.

mr.broderick

Snooze wrote: »

There's a far easier way of finding such posts. Just search for anything by Mr. Broderick or Pickles .....

:rotfl:

Rob

Rob you know i really like you.
Imagine someone from mars logging on to the interweb via satellite and reading all these desperate posts from desperate members who are praying for a crash for self gain, b.ugger everyone else, let's look after number 1. Just before starting the engines to come and visit us..you'd just turn them back off wouldn't you ?