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piggysteve:

--- Quote from: carbore on November 18, 2008, 14:43:16 ---From my experience the same thing applies to builders and other trades. Various people let me down re quotes and not returning calls 6 months ago, some of them are now phoning back but the works done and any new stuff will go the way of the people who bothered to turn up for the earlier jobs or had the decency to say they were too busy.

Same applies to the car salesmen who diddnt let me test drive various cars over the years, including a plonker at toyota who said "Your cars (a Scooby) worth 5k Still want a test drive in the MR2", I bought and  Elise the next weekend happen to have owned an MR2 before the Scooby as well.

Treat you customers well when its fair weather and when the storms come they will remember you.


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I had the same at our local VW dealers turned up in the old 110 to look at a Golf. Went from work which if you know me means scruffy, everyone studiously ignored us. On the way out I mentioned loudly to the wife that my £11 000 cash is obviously not legal tender round here by god they jumped then but too late. As I said to the head salesman who was then trying to get me to stay 'you can't judge people by how they are dressed or by what they drive'. I dont know many smart pig farmers  :lol:

Steve

Mareng:
If you want to wind a car dealer up,  do as one guy did at work today...

Pull up and park your Corsa (other Euro boxes work just as well) on the forecourt, right across the front of the cars for sale, get out, lock up, walk past all the brand new cars on offer on the forecourt you've just parked on, and cross the road to the generic used car dealer directly opposite.

Works a treat, and had our salesman calling the driver all the names under the sun  :evil:


Or, if you want to get the petrol station staff all worried, pull up in your 54 plate Merc (again, other vehicles are available) and after filling the tank, start filling 25 ltr cooking oil drums up in the boot (you should get about 2 done before they notice and switch the pumps off before coming out and telling you you have had your fill   :lol:

MudRat:
why do you think house prices are as high as they are? if estate agents were not on a commision basis, then all our mortgages would be lower!

Boggert:
Just remember Estate agents just do what they are told, to be fair when I was an estate agent the things the vendors asked us to do were appaling.

Things like...

"Tell the buyer I want another £10 K or I'm not exchanging contracts"
"If you think they have money put the price up"
"Don't tell them about the damp"
We valued the property at £250,000 so the vendor wanted to put it on at £350,000 when we refused he complained to the bosses.
 
The thing is with Estate agents the work for the seller not the buyer. The problem is some buyer think they work for them :roll:

I have more stories of when I worked in Estate agency in Grayshott and Alton than I have in the police!

 But I would not do it again for all the tea in China.

crazymac:

--- Quote from: MudRat on November 18, 2008, 18:14:17 ---why do you think house prices are as high as they are? if estate agents were not on a commision basis, then all our mortgages would be lower!

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I have to agree with that comment. You want to sell your house so you go to an estate agent and THEY value it! and advise you what to put in on for.

We considered putting our house up two years ago, one estate agent said £430,000!!!  The realistic ones said £275,000

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