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We are moving to another house. The vendors estate agents are not the best neither are the vendors however the estate agents have insurance brokers and solicitors as part of their service but not part of the actual estate agents (separate financial company).
We received a mobile phone message offering us their insurance services.
I replied with a snotty email suggesting they are breaking confidentially and breaking data protection regulations.
We have not signed anything to allow them to sell us insurance - they are not even our estate agents.
you could talk to the Information Commissioner and see what they say?
I shall see if that shuts them up but yes I will if they push it further!
They will try to sell you anything.
Just ignore them?
We have not signed anything to allow them to sell us insurance
Don't you normally have to opt out of this to stop it rather than give permission to allow it. I hope I'm wrong, but chances are you will have signed something somewhere allowing this to happen. Have you checked the paperwork.
More importantly, are you really that bothered to pursue it?
How very dare they?
If you are moving house and those are the worst of your worries, then I salute you! 😉
LOL - no they are not the worst things and prob worst is still to come but I have not signed a thing with them (I can categorically say this) - if just bugs me they can flout the law and get away with it - takes the p!$$
BTW they are the vendors EAs not ours and as we have been waiting for 5 weeks for our memorandum of sale this took the biscuit.
I'll only pursue it if they dont head my snotty email!
I think you need to go for a walk or a wa*k or something...
Well that's helpful mastiles 🙄
Don't you normally have to opt out of this to stop it rather than give permission to allow it
Strictly speaking you are supposed to give 'informed consent', that means really you should actively opt [b]in[/b] rather than fail to opt out
But an opt out placed where you'll easily miss it is how a lot of people operate.
Your title..
I'm in SHOCK!!!!
Really??
Nah, can't be true..
if they are the vendors' estate agents and you want the house, then DON'T PISS THEM OFF!
they have the ear of the vendors, and if they don't like you, they will bad mouth you at every opportunity. If you get into delays (chain or whatever) you need them to like you, otherwise they'll start trying to convince the vendors to gazump you.
by all means rant and rave about them, and complain after the deal is done, but while they hold the deal in their hands, keep schtum!
Dave
I've only experience of one estate agency and they were shits. They did exactly what alfabus said they would and began bad mouthing us to the vendor when we chose to instruct our own solicitor rather than use theirs. Fortunately their efforts came to nothing as the vendor thought they were shits too.
they have the ear of the vendors, and if they don't like you, they will bad mouth you at every opportunity.
Quid pro Quo - then they loose their sale as it has been on the market for 9 months and they haven't had a bean yet!! If they loose the sale then the EA don't get their money - we just find another house to buy (as we have a contingency plan of a few other houses we like)! If they were to force the chain to break then they will loose out on cash from 2 other properties in the chain!
At the end of the day we are choosing to move not needing to move!
estate agents are all w*nkers of the highest order. I love them.
There is nothing better in life than winding an estate agent up. Tere are two apporaches to this:
1)Keep sending more snotty emails and see how much crap they will take off you, because they will take loads as all they really want is the sale.
or 2) Treat them like spam and bait the **** out of them ask for quotes for every type of insurance you can think of, and make them do loads of running a round.
CAVEAT. Do not let the estate agent know how much money you have.. Connels here in the south west had this scheme where thy wouldn't let you look at any of their properties until they had done a "financial assessment" of you. What a crock, it was just a ruse to find out what you could afford so they could push you.
Well my wife wanted to know more about the process of buying so she was convinced by a local chain to go and see their mortgage advisors - I said don't but she insisted. I get a phone call from my wife saying they had a great deal and we should sign up. I said NO - bring it home if you like but dont sign a damn thing. Funnily enough she didn't bring anything home.
The trick is to sign you up for an exclusive deal - a credit check is performed and then you are limited to what they can offer as no one else will touch you after having a mortgage credit check and thus you end up having to go with one of their no so exclude deals. We found this out from out IFA and current mortgage provider later in the week!
My wife was rather shocked! Lesson learned 🙂