Am I right to be annoyed by these viewers?!

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So fucked off! EA called 6pm last night to say someone wanted to view my house but could only come 9.30 this morning. I do my own viewings and the kids are on half term so the short notice is a bit of a pita but I set my alarm for 6.30am to clean and dragged the kids out of bed at 8.30am to take them to their grandparents. 9.40am I see the buyers drive by slowly, turn the car around and pull up a little further down the road. Next thing I know the EA is on the phone telling me that they want to cancel the appointment!

Surely the first thing you do is check out a house from the outside before booking in a viewing!!

Yeah but sometimes you think you might be prepared to compromise on something if everything else is perfect. Guess in this case wanting detached was more important than whatever they thought they would like about your place.

I can see that, sometimes looking at a house made us realize what we wanted. There is no way they were going to be getting a detached house in this bracket though, so they'd have to change their mind and find a whole lot of extra money! It was a seriously small one bedroom maisonette.

Blame you EA. Not the viewer. They do this a lot.

"Since you have a viewing on Russell road you might as well see our other property there"
"Does it meet our criteria"
"Since youre there anyway"
"Its not what were looking for"
"You might as well see it for comparison"
"Im definitely not going to buy it"
"Ill bring both keys anyway just incase"

All so they can keep the listing by telling the vendor that theyre getting them viewings

We pulled out of a viewing at short notice once - not after the appointment time though, it was several hours before. We drove past on the way to view another house and decided it was on too busy a stretch of road.

I’ve always done a ‘drive by’ before booking to view a property, it’s a pita when you’ve gone to the trouble making it look immaculate for nothing

I'm guilty of having done this twice... Although in my defense it was in the days before google street view, I lived a 3 hrs drive away from where I wanted to live and things were seeking like hotcakes so by the time I'd decided I would like to view a place, driven by and then made an appointment they'd usually been sold.
The first time I showed up and the flat was actually in a supermarket car park... the front door opened right onto a small walkway and the car park was less than 4ft from the door and windows. I was never going to live there and cancelled. I thought this was better than the vendor showing me round when I'd no intention of buying.
The second time thr flat was in a block that wouldn't have looked out of place in a ghetto. I actually made it to the close door and the stench of urine made me run back to the car. Again... no way I would buy. Both times I cancelled about 3 hrs before I was due to actually view.

I actually blame the estate agents as neither schedule had shown the outside clearly/ at all

On the plus side, at least they didn’t waste your time further by coming inside and wandering around with no intention to buy. It isn’t always possible to get a proper view/sense of a place based on the listing alone. I’ve viewed a few places now that have looked really different to what I’d expected. On one viewing, I told the agent that I didn’t want to go inside and a few others recently where I declined to view upstairs. All genuine appointments, but not wanting to waste anyone’s time.