Viewer stole from my house?

[Calcaata]

I have a Diptique candle, 3 wick and cost £180. I’ve had two house viewings today, not done by myself but by the estate agent. I’ve come home and it’s missing.

Aibu to expect the estate agent to reimburse me?? I won’t be able to contact them now until Monday.

I am not sure how you can prove the viewer stole the candle.
This is exactly why I have never allowed a viewer to view my property without me being present.
I know Estate Agents don't like it but tough, my house my rules!

Why would it be time deaf? Everything you say is just making you look worse not the OP

And you aren't teasing you're being a total bitch which plenty of people have called you out on and yet you carry on.

Awful

£180 candles….you must be either loaded or very gullible, or both!🤣

How about she just likes expensive candles and spends HER OWN MONEY on them because she can! 😡

Is all this waxing lyrical about candles is getting on anyone else's wick?

So now it's the "grin" emoji. The point is - you are judging people on what they spend their own money on. I have bought your "small sellers" candles and tbh, they are shite.

I think OP had to say it was an expensive candel and can't win. Because if it was £4 from Tesco people would be exactly the same. "It's just £4, get a grip, buy another" etc.

What it was a Primark bra? Can't people see it's a big deal whatever it was? Someone op has trusted into her house has stolen and violated that safe space.

@Calcaata - have you contacted the estate agents? They should have supervised the viewing properly, then no theft would have happened. It doesn’t matter whether MNers think you deserve a Dyptique candle, or should have given all the money to the Sanctuary for Alchoholic Snails - something has been stolen from your house - and that is wrong, pure and simple.

I'm very sorry you've had a bad experienced, but not all small, independent, businesses are crap.

And I am very sorry my use of emojis bothers you so much you've felt compelled to comment on it multiple times. 😉😃😂😳

If I don't see the cry laughing emoji on this thread again it won't be too soon.

Do people really think sticking one on the end of their post hides all the passive aggressive jibes they've thrown about. They must take us for stupid.

Exactly - candle schmandle - it was a theft. I don’t see how OP can prove it happened, though.

dsis was selling her house and the ea turned up with an extended family - mother, father, kids and two sets of grandparents. They fanned out over the house and were touching everything like it was a boot sale and getting things out of cupboards and drawers. Dsis was very upset and ea was very apologetic.

Think my 3 wick was 4.99 from Aldi / got it last week

and it looks it.

If op had said it was a piece of jewellery for £180 there wouldn’t be half the criticism on here . Op has had someone steal from her. That’s a criminal offence and she came here for support.

OP how can you be 100pc certain that it was stolen by them?

Now this post DOES need a 😂 emoji!

Oh ffs, I was waiting for this, there’s always one!! 🤦‍♀️

Oh yes, cheap DOES mean smoke damage in some cases. And lots of nasty greasy residue on EVERYTHING as I said earlier. I have known people this has happened to. (I said this earlier too.)

For someone who claims to work in candle making, you don't know very much about candles. At all!

😂

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Some do but I think I block them out after years in here. This thread has made me consider my ex cleaner may have stolen my tennis bracelet. I can’t find it and looked everywhere but I did used to leave my jewellery out in the bedroom, so she would have had access. I was assuming I’d lost it - but that doesn’t really make sense as I’ve run out of places to look. I’ll never know.

I’m interested in how your estate agent reacted to you being present for viewings. Having read this thread, it’s confirmed my worries about leaving my house in the hands of an agent and going out if we put it on the market. Did you accompany viewers round the house?

Always one? Loads of posters have said this on this thread! That £180 is a lot to spend on a candle. OP can buy what she wants though. Nothing to do with anyone else.

Get indoor security cameras - the ring one for £20 I had in my bedroom when I was selling my house and it was funny watching back some of the viewings once people realised there was a camera in there - they became a lot less interested in my drawers and contents of bedroom funnily enough! Since being burgled from cleaners etc and also previous house sales I wasn’t having a repeat performance

@Calcaata OP, what have you decided to do?

Just do your own viewings and then you don’t have to worry about thefts. Ideally have someone else there too to keep an eye as if there’s a couple of them they may bring children and let the children go look upstairs on their own etc - make it very clear this isn’t happening and someone needs will go with them! The damage and theft caused by sticky fingers from children and old people was more than the main viewers I found

So sorry. I sold my house at auction and the very young viewing agent couldn't supervise the number of people they invited to viewings, I saw all the cars.

Somebody took my son's camera, I searched high and low, it had definitely been on the shelf when I went onto the market. They also broke the handle off the tiny door of the Aga where you light it, must have used some force.