Friday, Jan 08, 2010
Oh deary me
ES: Banks take over Foxtons in emergency debt move
"Foxtons, the famously aggressive London estate agent known for its fleet of racing green Minis, has been taken over by its banks as part of an emergency refinancing."
Posted by phdinbubbles @ 12:49 PM (1480 views) Add Comment
16 Comments
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1. taffee said...
good.....dreadfull people....everything about human beings you don't want to be associated with....probably a good example of what's gonna happen in the stockmarket or world economy at some point
2. brownsters_billions said...
Do you think we can petition the BoA to wind them up?
3. cat and canary said...
you know, its not really good to laugh at the misfortune of others..
...but...
MuahahyahahahahahahahahaahahahaHAHAHAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHA
please, my sides are splitting!
4. jack c said...
Time to re-brand and re-launch - Fuxton's springs to mind at this juncture.
5. will said...
LOL. I have a bottle of bubbly at the ready for one estate agency in my town for when they go bust. They ramped more than the others.
6. braindeed said...
......I might have to review my athiesm.
7. techieman said...
like the FT headline - posted below : "Lenders win control of foxtons" - win? hmm interesting concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GkwIRbLw8
or perhaps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJl1T-trLw
8. jack c said...
HNY techie - try this one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TagURmwO0Xs
9. techieman said...
Jack - good old Nick - I saw him once at my local (then) tube station at the height of his "fame". He was wearing a scarf over his face to protect his identity - :-). Stupid really as he only called attention to himself.... hmmmmm??? What a ___.
10. jack c said...
techieman - come to think of it his career does seem to have stalled a bit - at this rate he'll be back on Deadenders and as Drewster would say "relevance to house prices"? - well he be renting of course priced out because of over inflated London prices !
11. techieman said...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Berry - Blimey lives in epping, down the road from where i saw him in Loughton tube station, both in essex. ok.... no jokes please!
HNY too Jack.
12. paul said...
Jon Hunt must be laughing behind his kitchen cocktail bar. Seriously, I would be.
Talk about being sold a pup. You gotta laugh.
RIP Poxtons Racing Green wide-boy w%*kers.
13. jack c said...
Paul those mini's could become collectors items - time to splash the cash as we are still getting 0% on our savings
14. Thatcherschild said...
Schadenfreude
15. doomwatch said...
I used to know someone who liked to p1ss on those minis on the way home from the boozer. I told him
to be careful he might catch something, as there had been an even bigger pr1ck sat in it that day.
16. paul said...
@jack c
Yes, they might become collectors' items, just like MG Rovers have.
Oh hang on ...