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Estate Agents and poor spelling

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  • 27-09-2022 11:12pm
    #1
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭


    Every now and again I take a look on daft and "see what's out there". I have noticed quite that they mis-spell the name of even the actual place incorrectly ALOT.

    Call me a stickler, but with Google Maps, Eircode finder and a plethora of 2-second checks being available to consult, it strikes me that they cut corners alot.

    Examples: Danesfort in Kilkenny as "Danesford" and "Danesforts" in 2 separate ads. I died a little inside to be honest.

    Maybe i'm unlucky and have just seen rare examples but i doubt it.

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    #2
    IamMe33
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭IamMe33


    'ALOT' of irony here.



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    #3
    dennyk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭dennyk


    What would an Alot of irony look like, I wonder? 🤔

    The people posting these ads are no doubt busy and can't be arsed to proofread. Hard to blame them when you could post an ad for a house in Qwertyuiop with a description of "Lorem ipsum..." and people would still be bidding fifty over asking within a day.



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    #4
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭tscul32


    We saw a house online that had the floor plans of a completely different house - 3 bed single front instead of the 4 bed double front that it is. Went to an open viewing for it and they had lovely glossy brochures for the house, with the same incorrect plans. I pointed it out to the EA and he had never noticed. Ad is still up with wrong plans.

    I'm not sure they're too bothered.



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    endofrainbow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    I saw an ad for house share along my road - the interior photos were actually of the house next door (which had recently been sold).

    Laziness pure and simple.



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    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,751 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    It is lazy and they don't care. They could post an ad on Daft telling every pleb looking for a rental to anally impale themselves on a sweeping brush before viewing and you would see a line of three legged people with exasperated expressions on their faces, trundling up the road, with references from their job and last 10 landlords in their sweaty paws.



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    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,167 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    I’m fairly certain we got a relative bargain on the house we bought because the estate agent listed it incorrectly

    So thank god for them and their mistakes



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    CreadanLady
    Registered Users Posts: 791 ✭✭✭CreadanLady


    They don't care. They know people will still bit through their eyeballs to get it.

    The MFV Creadan Lady is a mussel dredger from Dunmore East.



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    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,048 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058265165/estate-agents-and-poor-spelling

    They mis-spell incorrectly?



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