to throw bricks through the windows of our estate agent?

[Jellyontheham]

Or firebomb them?

Poodledoodle01 your posts read as rather hostile - "judging by your own standards" and "pearl clutching" and "suck it up."

As I say, invested.

I think it could be time to ask the agents to reduce their commission by the missing £1k or reduce their %age for everyone.

Hate them, hate them, hate them

Not hostile, just strong opinions. Also massively distrust estate agents too.
Having truly been shafted once before and having been accused of shafting someone else - you honestly don't realise how straightforward yours really is.

Not sure how that makes me invested

handsoff they should be regulated! They really should. There are so many online agents now, but they don't seem to have taken off.
I'm not moving any time soon, but would consider using one again if i had to.

Sounds awful op, but at least you're in touch with the seller directly.

I also hate estate agents! The ones who sold us the house we're in now, lost a set of keys . The seller gave them 3 sets and they gave me only 2.

Despite not keeping s record of what keys are handed in/ given out, nor photocopy in them ( other agents told me they did this) and having no evidence what sievert, they decided that the seller and/ or me was mistaken

I should have added, look who regulates them. I called the ombudsman and 2 hours later the EA had agreed to pay for a locksmith to sort keys for the door for which I didn't have a key.

Oh no.... looking to move and i think your brain blocks out the nightmare. Good luck

I read the first page only and you have my sympathies. You told them you wanted to move to a particular house only. You weren't selling your house for fun so they'd get a chunky commission.

"but I absolutely DON'T want to reduce our offer on the one we want, as its a wreck and we haven't even gone to survey yet, so we might need some wiggle room there for essential repairs etc"

"So, discussion with DH, and we decided that all we could do is try and Do The Right Thing. So, I went to see MrsA to tell her that even if we ended up changing agent, our offer still stands, we aren't about to attempt to reduce it"

But you are about to reduce it, as you know it's a wreck and needs work done, and hope the survey can be leverage for that. If you haven't prepared the seller for that, she might be annoyed herself now you've said that.

(As your sale progresses, you may want to start a new one about solicitors )

No, Cretaceous, we're not about to reduce our offer, NOR do we hope things will come out at survey that we didn't know about. All offers are subject to survey and of course if it shows that there's say, something catastrophic then the whole sale collapses and we won't buy it. And if there's something that we couldn't have known about, that needs immediate attention then we have three options :
Do the work ourselves when we move
Ask the vendor to do the work
Ask the vendor to reduce the price accordingly.

That's not the same as asking our vendor to drop the price because someone further down the chain has done their sums wrong.

Our offer is firm and is based on what we know so far. Equally if our buyer's survey throws something up that needs fixing then we look at it in the same light.

But it's not the same as everyone taking less because an agent overpriced a house and the seller got less than she was hoping for it. That's just hard luck.

Hope you can get it sorted Jelly. What a load of stress that you really don't need.

My cousin's whole chain collapsed on the actual morning of exchange. Someone in the chain pulled out, because they'd "just noticed" that the house they were planning to buy was next door to a pub.