Estate agents and their fairy tales...

[Notmyyearthisyear]

I've been outright lied to by an estate agent twice this week...most recently today.
Conversation circa midday about putting in an offer on the house I viewed in the morning. EA: yes, we have more viewings arranged next week but if we receive more than 2 offers today the vendor might go to best and finals as they'd rather not do the remaining viewings.
2 hours later. I call in with my initial offer. The same EA, same person: no, of course we are going ahead with the remaining viewings. We would always offer all people booked in to view a property an opportunity to view it.
Last week, same EA, different person: I'm calling you to let you know we are unable to go ahead with the viewing of X property, the owner has just accepted an offer.
Hmm....

Dont forget that the EA acts for the vendor so they may just be passing on instructions from the vendors who might keep changing their minds.

@bilbodog not with categorical statements like the ones they made, such as 'we would never do xyz' when they actually did precisely xyz just a few days before.
I'm under no illusions who they work for, I'm just saying that such blatant lies are really not necessary especially nowadays when buyers are tripping over themselves to put the offers in anyway....

Ours said there had been "a lot" of interest in a house we were viewing. As she was saying this she was shoving a good couple of weeks worth of junk mail away from the front door.

At the time I remember thinking it was such a pointless lie as it was so obviously untrue

Q: how can you tell an estate agent is lying? A: it’s when their lips are moving.

In my experience, they like to put forward offers from people who are also using them to sell their own home, and ignore the rest.

Oh don’t there is someone on here who gets furious if you suggest that estate agents lie. I have just found out that the one acting for me has been economical with the truth shall we say.

@whataboutbob

Q: how can you tell an estate agent is lying? A: it’s when their lips are moving.

I agree it’s a sad fact that it’s very difficult to trust what many EA’s say.

I’ve bought four properties over my time and frankly only one I felt was not pushy and honest. It certainly makes the whole process harder than it needs to be.

I don’t think it helps that when you walk along any High Street there are just too many all vying for the same business.

Estate agents are actually worse than second hand car salesmen. They lie incessantly and you cannot believe a word they utter. As long as you know that and factor it is, it is annoying but work around it