To be surprised this estate agent wasn’t sacked?

I agree.

I wonder if going to the police as it was a pornographic photo would be worth doing. You'll get a crime reference, which helps you terminate the contract with the estate agent. You can then leave a factual review, or seek grounds for the estate agent to be removed from platforms such as Rightmove.

'They do it on purpose!'

I think that's very insulting to rabid dogs.

This is bad and of course lots of
other sectors would dismiss for this. But EAs are generally a very unethical bunch who’d think nothing of selling their own grannies. I can name numerous instances over the course of many sales and purchases, where service has been questionable and edged on contempt for customers. Go elsewhere and be sure to tell as many people as you can about it.

There was a thread the other day about someone's estate agent sister taking inappropriate photos of people's homes and posting them to WA. Is this the reverse?

Agree.

DH was waiting in the front office of our former letting agent. They obviously hadn't heard him arrive and were slagging of other clients. All quite clearly audible in the front office.

Same agent denied receiving an email from us which resulted in a delay which cost us money. DH said he'd resend it, tapped his keyboard for a bit, told them he'd re-sent it (but hadn't) and miraculously, it appeared on their email system within seconds.

I could go on.

Have you even MET an estate agent? 😂

they have the morals and decorum of a rabid dog.

It’s easy @GoneWithTHeWindJammersyou can use any amount of apps to do it. Photoshop etc.

How did they actually do that, from a technical point of view?

where do we get all these free hours? none round here

I’d report it to the police. Whether they do anything about it I’m not sure, but surely making and distributing a pornographic photo is a crime isn’t it?

I’d also be telling the estate agent that using my property to commit a criminal offence is unacceptable. To do so in the course of employment is even worse (although their internal procedures are down to them in terms of warnings/dismissal). I’d probably go a bit further and tell them I’d be listing with another agent immediately, need written confirmation that this would not be in breach of contract with them (because usually you’d have a period of time in between ending your contract with them and being able to instruct another agent) and if the sale price is lower than it should otherwise be because you’ve had to use a second agent, you’ll be pursuing them for the losses.

This is so grossly unprofessional, estate agents really should not be unregulated in the way that they are.

Absolutely no way would they continue marketing my house unless they offered to do it for free (which they won't). I'd be leaving one-star reviews about the lack of professionalism shown by some of their staff (ie not implying all the staff are at fault) all over the place.

If there’s genuine misconduct and not just poor service you are dealing with then you post a note to the vendor explaining that you are interested in the property but are uncomfortable going through said Estate Agents due to having ongoing issues with them. Then it’s up to the vendor if they want to contact you or not. We did this and the vendor was very grateful as she was getting no viewings. It’s about time Estate Agents had more stringent regulations and were held to account.

Sigh.

You are entitled to take your business elsewhere.

Youre not entitled to know about a company’s internal HR policies. No matter what the person did.

I mean, it would reflect well on them if they sacked the person, but they still may or may never divulge that information.

They don’t have to. They have to rectify/remove the image. Which they did.

The high horse ‘of COURSE it’s my business’ is just…all high horse tbh.

She’s right though .

This.

its not really up to you to have an opinion on whether or not they should be sacked.

but what you can control is what you now do. I.e. put your house on with an estate agent you trust with reimbursement of fees. And whether you think any damage has been done by the Facebook post - but I can’t really get my head round it and what that would mean! I don’t think I could carry on working with these wallies though.

Its every bit of her business when it's her house thats up for sale with them,and doing stupid stuff like that,so unprofessional. I'd take my business elsewhere and give them a bad review

I would take it very seriously and withdraw my business from them immediately.

Reply back that you intend to report it to trading standards and that you will be reviewing them, specifically mentioning this most distasteful experience.

@Wetcoatsandmudagain absolutely. I'd dump them and find another estate agent.

I would ditch the agent, they don’t deserve your custom. At the very least the culprit should have been made to apologise to you in person. And I agree they should have been sacked.

I'd take my business elsewhere

This. 100%. People you know may have thought this was genuine and that you’d left porn on the tv. 🙈. I’d be very unhappy.

There are quite a few situations where this could have an impact on people's jobs or careers. I know porn is common but this would put me off a doctor, counsellor or a tradie if it involved them being in my house with me alone.

I'd ditch the agent as I just couldn't trust them.

I’m interested to know where
people work that they wouldn’t be sacked for this? Accessing and distributing porn in the course of one’s employment, with very obvious potential for damage to the reputations of the client and the business?