FOXTONS - WTF
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- stevegee
Anyone have a good experience with using Foxtons to sell a home since they became "full service"?
I'm looking to DESTROY them, they are the worst and are wrecking my life, my wife's life, our son's life, and the life of our soon-to-be born daughter!
Have you ever dealt with a company that makes you sign a contract, then when you are unhappy because of all of their mistakes and more mistakes, they won't let you void the contract? I want to take my business elsewhere and they won't let me.
I'm so mad, I want to take a flame thrower to that place!!!
Any suggestions on public forums to let the truth out, I'm open to it.
(end rant)
- Bluejam0
foxtons (uk based) just got busted on a tv show (undercover doc 'bout bad estate agents) for price fixing and selling dodgy uk passports
- rasko40
I'm sorry but I consider you an idiot for even considering to use them in the first place.
Why you would want to pay over the odds to sit in their poncey offices with their silly perrier stocked fridges, being sold extortionately over priced housing by a 17 year old spotty idiot in a Moss Bros suit that smugly drives round in a camoflage mini is beyond me.
- stevegee0
Rasko - what are you talking about? THey don't overcharge, they undercharge, and there isn't anything 'poncey' about them... everything about them sucks.
Sure, I'll take it, I'm a stunod to the first magnitude for signing a contract with them without doing any research. But to my defense, two years ago we sold and bought through them and it was fine, easy even.
Now they've got all this new crap that they say they do to justify charging 3% as opposed to 1 or 2% years ago, and it sucks.
- taragee0
man im sorry stevegee
but lol @ stunand hahaha
- ********0
Rules/contracts were meant to be broken? ...
I'll see myself out knowing nothing of the subject.
Sorry you're having troubles.
- UndoUndo0
are they likely to chase for if you break the contract? will they find out? is the contract actually legal?? take yr house off the market for a short period? if they are idiots, take them as such
- rasko40
lol @ 'they undercharge'
lol @ 'there isn't anything poncey'
lol @ you
- rasko40
oops I was assuming this was about the London operations.
unlol
- contra0
Let me guess... they told you they could get £20-30k more for your house than everyone else did and you fell for it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magaz…
And how you can say they're not poncey, not even slightly, with a straight face, truly amazes me. Are you from LA?
- contra0
They have the Minis and I guess all the other shit in the US too Rasko. Put that lol back.
- stevegee0
I outta kick your lol butt Rasko! :)
They don't promise anything, they actually try to make you lowr your price incrementally each week to try and sell it quicker.
I can sign with any other agent I want, or I can sell it myself, whatever, but the contract is basically a lean on the house for a 6 month period that if it sells, no matter how it sells, they get 3% of the sale price. I'm fine with that if they did what they're supposed to do.
- jamble0
Now they've got all this new crap that they say they do to justify charging 3% as opposed to 1 or 2% years ago, and it sucks.
stevegee
(Apr 4 06, 12:34)3% I can assure you is massely overcharging.
I am just awaiting completion on my house sale this month and it's going to cost my 1.25% with castlehill. I checked manning stainton and they charge 1.5% so I think no matter what the service you've overpaid.
I feel my estate agent have barely earned their 1.25% to be honest. I've done all the chasing and got to the point where I told my buyer to fuck off and stop wasting my time. Only then did they actually call him when they figured they'd lose their commission.
Use www.houseladder.co.uk in the future :)
- stevegee0
USA MAN, wrong side of the damn pond!!!
- soda0
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Foxtons.
Cunts and Twats.
Twunts even.
NEver use them.
NEVER.
- ********0
I feel your pain....
Why not make the website yourself.... 'realfoxotns.co.uk' and get people to post their complaints about the company.
- jamble0
USA MAN, wrong side of the damn pond!!!
stevegee
(Apr 5 06, 06:37)Sorry, I assume everyone is Britsh .. ;)
Still, 3% is 3% no matter where you and that seems very steep for doing fuck all.
- kezza_20
why not just sign up with another agency, ask for your keys back from foxtons.
contract smontract. Let them take you to court they'll never win
- soda0
why not just sign up with another agency, ask for your keys back from foxtons.
contract smontract. Let them take you to court they'll never win
kezza_2
(Apr 5 06, 06:51)or just threaten the estate agent.
Worked for me.