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Are you KIDDING ME?! (Sale based rant)

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GinIsIn · 07/11/2016 15:03

Due to exchange tomorrow. Buyer has dragged, dragged and dragged some more, then turned around today and said they want £15k off the price. We already took £20k off the price for them at the start of the process. I am NOT shifting, and they are utter CUNTWEASELS!!!!

Can anyone suggest some creative revenge ideas for once they've moved in, if by some miracle this sodding sale does go through?

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TheCrowFromBelow · 08/11/2016 16:09

can you rent it and remarket next year?

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GinIsIn · 08/11/2016 16:17

I think we will be going back on the market. Utter, utter cockwombles!!!!!

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Ginslinger · 08/11/2016 16:42

what utter shits - if they're in a chain they've fucked that up too. I can't believe this behaviour -

bloodyteenagers · 08/11/2016 16:49

They now see you as walkovers veciase you extended the deadline. Phone up the ea and put it back on the market.

PurpleDaisies · 08/11/2016 16:51

I agree with others-you absolutely have to put it back on the market if they fail to meet the deadline. It's a horrible position to be in. Sending Wine

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GinIsIn · 08/11/2016 17:10

I have given them the next 24 hours to exchange if they do choose to proceed at my agreed price, just to be clear, as they've dicked around all day today trying to negotiate. I have not extended that to any form of negotiations. They have another 51 minutes to confirm the purchase or it goes back on the market.

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MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 08/11/2016 17:13

You go Fenella. Little shits like this need putting in their place. Can't believe they're still grasping after you've already dropped £20k.

BigGreenOlives · 08/11/2016 17:14

My dad's buyer did this, we put it back on the market & they had to pay the full agreed price. They were lawyers.

AntiHop · 08/11/2016 17:18

That is awful behaviour from them.

AhNowTed · 08/11/2016 17:29

Good for you, you're 100% right.

Don't be tempted to get into an argument about 'the market' and 'well if they hadn't delayed for so long' blah blah.. it will only encourage them.

I was in a similarly precarious position of having already moved, and therefore paying 2 mortgages. I reckon your buyers have factored this in and assume you're desperate. They are a shower of fuckers.

GoofyIsACow · 08/11/2016 17:31

Good for you OP, if they do end up buying it take a shit in the bath and put a little flag in it!

YouOweMeATenner · 08/11/2016 17:32

Chancers! Good for you, sticking to your guns

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GinIsIn · 08/11/2016 17:34

THEY HAVE CAPITULATED!!!! YES!!!!!!!! I am still sending them live crickets in the post though. FUCKERS!!

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CanandWill · 08/11/2016 17:38

Excellent news. Well done for holding firm.

CheddarGorgeous · 08/11/2016 17:38

Yay!!!

EsmeCordelia · 08/11/2016 17:39

I was about to say it's a game of chicken. Well done for standing firm. Buyers did this to us, sale went through at original price but left us wishing them not well. Congratulations on your sale

LindyHemming · 08/11/2016 17:41

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Viviene · 08/11/2016 18:04

Woo-hoo! I would have put the house back on the market and told them to fuck off.
However, I am a vindictive cow, so if I was to sell to them I would do all of the things suggested above :-)

FrancisCrawford · 08/11/2016 18:12

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Melfish · 08/11/2016 22:30

Well done Fenella. You know you can tarantulas by post online for £3?!

TurquoiseDress · 08/11/2016 22:44

I think the only answer in situation is to tell them NO FUCKING WAY!

How utterly rude and wanky.

You have already agreed a purchase price.

Any particular reason? (am guessing there was absolutely no reason put forward for this manoeuvre!)

Blossomdeary · 08/11/2016 22:51

This happened to the person who sold us the bungalow we have recently moved into. Her buyer dragged his feet big time and then at the eleventh hour wanted to reduce his offer by £20K - I guess he thought a woman on her own would cave in. She told him to get on his bike - good for her! His loss was our gain.

You could try calling their bluff and just saying no to the reduction.

CotswoldStrife · 08/11/2016 23:00

Excellent news OP! I dreaded this kind of thing happening and would have told anyone trying it to go forth and find another property without hesitation but probably cried and drank a lot of wine afterwards but it's more difficult when you can see the process collapsing in front of you. Well done for holding firm!

I like the junk mail option and would investigate something similar for the landline phone number. DH put our landline number in to one of those online comparison websites for car insurance once and they kept ringing up just saying

OhHaaaaay · 09/11/2016 05:34

What utter cunts! So glad you 'won', op.

I've been in this situation; buyers wanted £20k off just before exchange. We told them to fuck off, put the house back on the market and got an asking price offer again the next day. They ended up paying over the odds for a house in the (far inferior) village down the road Grin

loveyogalovelife · 09/11/2016 05:39

Well done!! Serves them right x