30 Sep 2007 4:36 PM:

Friend of mine took his Ford Explorer pickup (with film tints on all windows) to ITV last week, and had to literally slit them and rip them off whilst they were looking at other things or they would not pass it! - Beware.

Thread: Window Tints

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30 Sep 2007 4:28 PM:

I agree with the comments here.

I have been berated on this forum before because I don't contribute enough, but every time I log on and see a thread title that I think I could add value to, I have to trawl through the masses of chit-chat of the very same group of 'hardcore' members that are having a go at me for my lack of posts!
I still wish to contribute, but by then I dare not, because I simply don't know if my comments will have already been covered in amongst the dross,  and I would then undoubtedly cop more flack for not reading threads properly, or for duplicating the content of somebody else's answer....
......All very frustrating. .

Thread: Forums

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16 Sep 2007 4:17 PM:

Ryan air have NO winter flights into Almeria from Stanstead or vice-versa this year.

Apparently they have been contemplating pulling out of Stanstead altogether lately because of rising landing fees and other charges levied against them by the airport.

Now Easyjet have a dilemma...

Stick another route on to mop up all those extra passengers OR go 'Kerrching!' and double the price of their flights on that route!

We will wait and see....

Thread: 6,000,000...............seat's........? ?

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15 Sep 2007 2:11 PM:

Rixxy:- you say "I guess the real root of my strong feeling of anger towards you is that your posts assume there is a stupidity inherent of buyers and that they should not have a freedom of choice"

Oh dear, oh dear...

That is the complete opposite of everything that I am saying Rixxy..., and it is also the opposite of what our website is all about...having the freedom of choice is EXACTLY what we are encouraging.
What we are saying is that quite often people just do not necessarily know what choices they have, that does not make them stupid in our book.....Vunerable to agents yes, but stupid NO.

I implore you to read the content of my posts more carefully...

I say:-

"(in the main), people are disillusioned by the service given in relation to the fees charged by some Estate agents?"

" There is surely room for all of us in this marketplace...?"

"Good Agents, who work hard, and charge reasonable fees in the opinion of the client (like Rixxy, Georgia, and many others) are just as welcome to sellers as they have always been. We would not dispute that, it's a fact."

.....Does that really sound like somebody saying that "all agents are bad, and even bad agents are terrible" - those are your words, my friend... not mine.

Thread: have the agents been wiped out in the property war

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14 Sep 2007 8:26 PM:

And back comes the new kid on the block....

.....the small fish in the big sea of Spanish real estate, getting his fins nipped by the 'big boys & girls' of this forum who clearly do not want me here.....I wonder why???

Come on guys, why do you appear to be so threatened?....could it be that I have touched a nerve? Could it be that the groundswell of public opinion around the bars, golf courses and Pool terrace barbeques, is actually that (in the main), people are disillusioned by the service given in relation to the fees charged by some Estate agents?

There is surely room for all of us in this marketplace...?

The meager fees that Internet private sales websites, such as ours are charging cannot possibly put people off of adding more 'angles of attack' when trying to sell their home?
The amount of outlay for a seller to take a private sales route in addition to letting agents try to sell their home,  is so laughably small that there is zero risk......in the words of one of our latest clients "it's got to be worth a punt!"

Good Agents, who work hard, and charge reasonable fees in the opinion of the client (like Rixxy, Georgia, and many others) are just as welcome to sellers as they have always been. We would not dispute that, it's a fact.

But if agents are trying to dissuade people from using websites such as ours, or from selling privately full stop, or if they are restricting sellers in any way, …..then those sellers (and for that matter potential buyers monitering this situation) must ask themselves, ‘Why?”

As an example, I spoke to a client yesterday who has recently put 'for sale' signs outside his home, on the roadside, and on his garden wall....and even on his car window because of this new found awareness of his ability to sell privately. Like so many people, he did not even realise that you do not NEED an agent to sell your home.
He had a visit from an agent (the 14th different one... I kid you not!) whom he is allowing to list his property. After he was made profuse promises of a swift sale, and had listened to a long list of lengths to which they would go,  the agent told him that in order to be 'put on the books', he must take down all of his private sale signs!

The agents motives for this are obvious, but it does illustrate that in the current climate of  buyer cautiousness, and seller desperation, the private sale route is one that is making some Estate agents very skittish.

I might add that i have also been approached already by more than one agent, wanting me to 'exchange' the private details of the sellers on our website, in exchange for a 50% cut of their commission, that they were telling me would come from the buyer!!!!!

Suffice to say I did not entertain the notion long enough to find out how on earth they thought they could make this work.

 





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