Due to exchange, buyers want £15 grand off the price!!!!

[Diege]

Due to exchange and buyers rang up estate agents at the beginning of the week and said they wanted 15 grand off the price - no discernable reason (ie, not survey related)
We have found our dream home, our things are in the process if being packed up, dds picked their news bedrooms etc etc and I'm emotionally very attached to our new house. Any suggestions as to how we deal with the situation? I initially in my panic thought offer them a percentage (5 grand) but realising that the buyers are being totally unethcial (they've got a very good price and we also knocked money off for them when they made a mistake with stamp duty) have provided them with an ultimatum (on advice of estate agents): exchange tomorrow or return the papers...
Feeling very very stressed about all of this..any advice on what to do if they refuse appreciated!

congratulations..common sensed prevailed!!!

Enjoy your new home

Thanks PLUS3 . We are off to look at new carpets today; I never thought we'd get to this stage!

ajumpedupantryboy - how satisfying

Just checked back for this thread -- so glad it all worked out!

Well, do you know what? My parents are buying a house where the buyer tried to knock £20k off just before completion for no particular reason (house in perfectly good repair, as survey showed). The vendor said no, and the buyer said he was going to pull out. My parents then came along and offered the price he had originally offered, and the vendors accepted. So my parents then offered to buy this man's survey off him... to which he replied that they had gazumped him after he'd spent all this money on solicitors and a survey, and there was no way that he was going to sell them his survey. Well, he should have thought of that before he tried to knock £20k off an agreed price.