WASTERS!
(Hall of Fame?)

We have all had them from time to time - TIME WASTERS.  They come in all sizes and guises.  A popular one is 'tyre kickers', you know the ones.  They come to look at a perfectly good car that you are selling, waste a good Sunday afternoon kicking the tyres, and letting their grubby little offspring climb all over the freshly cleaned upholstery in their muddy trainers, with chocolate encrusted fingers, then, offer you a sum which is both derisory and not even equivalent to the scrap value of the vehicle, and sod off, never to be seen or heard of again!

Then there are the professional house viewers.  Rather than take their unruly brats to the park to amuse them, or let them play in the fast lane of the M1, they choose to ruin a perfectly reasonable Saturday, by arranging with the agent to view your property for sale.  They have NO intention of buying it and most probably couldn't afford it.  They just see "traipsing around peoples houses", as a cheap day out.

Since we put our Spanish house up for sale or Swap on the Internet, we have had our fair share of wasters.  These are people who;

1. Find the web site or some advert for the house, then

2. Make an enquiry, (usually asking for lots of information already provided)

3. Ask for even more further or better information (with pictures), and,

4. When you send them a full response, with photos, links, room dimensions et al, they

5. Disappear from the face of the earth, without the courtesy of reply or acknowledgement, or

6. String you along for a few months, making all the right noises, then change their minds, or

7. Get you all excited about THEIR property, and then stop answering your emails, or

8. Say you are 'asking too much', which begs the question why they enquired in the first place?

9. Take you almost to the 'wire' then ask if you will meet all expenses

10. Advertise THEIR house, but don't respond to repeated emails for details.

11. Make you YOU pay to respond to an ad that they then don't reply to your PAID enquiry.

12. Want to swap with your house, but have 7 kids and a big mortgage with no hope of redemption, OR live in a council owned property!

The big difference here is, unlike the tyre kickers and house viewers, they leave a trail.  Usually their IP address and email which can be published here, so one and all . . . . .

Welcome to the time-wasters "Hall of Fame"
(in NO particular order)