^ this ^
i used to let flats there. you could have a 3 bed flat for £35 a week and we still couldn't shift them.

we had a freephone stoke number, as the locals were too pikey to dial 0161, and we all used to dive onto something else every time it rang. shudder.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:02, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You worked in a travel agents?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:08, Reply)

estate agent!
who the hell would go on holiday to STOKE?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:11, Reply)

People from Stoke.

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Estate agents are the lowest of the low.
I remember having an argument with Knight Frank after they refused to give me the time of day in one of their branches.

I did phone them a few days later and spoke to some pompus twat of a manager who was wearing mustard coloured cords when I was first in there to say that the house I wanted to sell had been placed with another agent who had agreed to pay 75% of the Country Life advertising and they'd produce a glossy leaflet to send to people they knew were looking for a place similar to the one I was selling.

The fact he just worked in a shop was lost on him.

They'd have copped for a massive commission as well, but seemingly scruffy blokes with a couple of days stubble and a pair of jeans aren't in a position to sell houses through their agency. Even houses that had stables, land and outbuildings.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:20, Reply)

That was his first mistake

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:25, Reply)

And you left that glamorous world for the legal profession?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:24, Reply)

i noe, right?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:31, Reply)