Esate Agent rip offI was an Estate Agent back in the 80s, lying was of course part of the job...
Went to value a nice little flat in a village just outside London, worth about 50k at the time. Bloke selling it was doing so on behalf of his late father. He was from some northern hell hole where houses were 12 for a shilling and had no idea of southern prices.
He said 'would it be easy to sell?',
I said 'ummm welll probably ok' (lie 1),
'as a matter of fact im looking for somewhere to live myself' (lie 2)
'tell you what, its worth about 30k (lie 3) I will give you 32k for it cos its just what I need (lie 4)..'
'Cor! as much as that!' says northern man,
we shook on it, the deal was done and I bought it.
Sold it straight away to another estate agent for 50k which was probably about 2k under price.
Now, call me a lying, scheming git but if you were selling a house and an estate agent said 'I would like to buy your house, its just what I need' would'nt you smell the teeniest little rat?
I packed it in a year or two later having only ripped off one more vendor and that was the Prudential Insurance co for 16k.
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Went to value a nice little flat in a village just outside London, worth about 50k at the time. Bloke selling it was doing so on behalf of his late father. He was from some northern hell hole where houses were 12 for a shilling and had no idea of southern prices.
He said 'would it be easy to sell?',
I said 'ummm welll probably ok' (lie 1),
'as a matter of fact im looking for somewhere to live myself' (lie 2)
'tell you what, its worth about 30k (lie 3) I will give you 32k for it cos its just what I need (lie 4)..'
'Cor! as much as that!' says northern man,
we shook on it, the deal was done and I bought it.
Sold it straight away to another estate agent for 50k which was probably about 2k under price.
Now, call me a lying, scheming git but if you were selling a house and an estate agent said 'I would like to buy your house, its just what I need' would'nt you smell the teeniest little rat?
I packed it in a year or two later having only ripped off one more vendor and that was the Prudential Insurance co for 16k.