Sunday, May 11, 2008
It's not easy, but try to feel a teensy weensy bit sorry for estate agents
Guardian/Observer: It's not easy, but try to feel a teensy weensy bit sorry for estate agents
"Did anyone get angry when the prices of their houses were being ridiculously overinflated? Did I, who staunchly polices the airbrushing of celebrity thighs on the pages of glossy magazines, complain when my fusty two-bed dump was described as a 'delightfully bijou maisonette' and photographed from flattering angles? No I didn't. None of us did. We all jumped feet first into the nest of vipers and now, diddums, we've been bitten."
This made me smile. Hope it's not a re-post - I've been out in the sun all day so may have missed it.
Posted by becky @ 07:08 PM (561 views) Add Comment
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1. gone-to-colombia said...
Nah
2. Deadspider said...
Nah , me neither .
Just wanted to get rid of it quickly and that's what I did .
3. paul said...
Feel sorry for Alistair the Irritating Estate Agent? What, because now he's no longer employed when once he had easy money for being the village idiot?
Should've gotten himself a proper career instead then.
4. A Thorn By Another Name! said...
come on guys - do you really think they have actually gone anywhere????they are here and here and a 100 more places, just check out the back pages of your local paper - I know mine are covered with quick cash sale ads AKA estate agents!!!
5. shipbuilder said...
Of course, estate agents aren't actually in any trouble at all - they could get the commissions flowing in if they simply cut their valuations by 50%. They could call for reformation of property laws. They could do all sorts of things to make the situation better. If they won't, we can only conclude that they want to fail, and should wish them all the best.
6. Charlie Brooker said...
Presumably to ease her own conscience, Barbara Ellen, the article's author accuses every last one of us of greedily colluding in the property bubble.
Speak for yourself sister! Don't you know about HPC.co.uk?
Some of us actively withdrew from participating in the property game in protest knowing full well where it would end.
Don't saddle us with your guilt; we HPCers deserve praise for our intelligence and restraint.
Deal with it!