Monday, June 8, 2009
Interesting tactics
Belfast developer 'fakes queue' outside estate agents
People would go any lengths to make you believe...
Posted by bulboy @ 03:09 PM (1798 views)
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will says:
Hardly surprising since they have used almost every other tactic in the World to secure a deal. What happened to the Property Misdescriptions Act which was supposed to prevent agents talking up properties. Words like; beautiful, lovely, scenic, quality, exceptional, sought after, were no longer allowed to be used when selling as house.
dead spider says:
“Bradkeel Developments’ Paul Fitzsimons defended the stunt, saying the other people standing in the photos were genuine potential buyers who had been told to gather there last Thursday to receive brochures and see a special sculpture of the complex made from sugar cubes.”
:-)) , that had me nearly wet meself :-))))
Sugar cubes :-))))))
dead spider says:
Also interesting that no.8 in the queue (first photo) is now no.2 in the second .
Friggin’ queue jumpers . How’s she beat no.3 who was there all the time ? :-)))
mander says:
John Davis of property consultants Davis and Armstrong, told the newspaper: “Everyone and his dog is trying to talk up the market so that people again feel panicked that they should get back on to the ladder.
Paying for somebody making a fake queue in order to fool people into buying property is not legal. Is there an analogy with the banking activity of the boom years?
Fallingbuzzard says:
This used to be called “Open House”. Another scam used to con people. It’s certainly not illegal but it is immoral and unethical.
jackas says:
Poncy scheme,
little professor says:
Forget the fake queue, this was the funniest bit:
Bradkeel Developments’ Paul Fitzsimons defended the stunt, saying the other people standing in the photos were genuine potential buyers who had been told to gather there last Thursday to receive brochures and see a special sculpture of the complex made from sugar cubes.
inbreda says:
3. dead spider said…
interesting that they try and claim that only the first person in the queue is a plant when as you say ds, the order changes. The woman in the chequered coat goes from #2 to #7
and the man in the yellow mac goes from #4 to #9
#8 goes to #2
#6 goes to #8
In fact… hold on a minute… this isn’t a queue for an estate agents… this is a game of musical bldy chairs!!
wiltshire says:
Apparently in an attempt to keep prices as low as possible Bradkeel Developments are actually planning to build the whole development out of sugar cubes.
Tennouji says:
And they are ALL drinking the same brand of coffee. How would you get the coffee if you were in the queue, unless they all happened to drop
by the same coffee shop to pick one up on the way. Must have been stone-cold by the time the picture was snapped then!
icarus says:
er…why would there be a queue anyway?