Posted by Andy in 2008, Dear Diary | 0 Comments
Let me sell your house!
Evening all *tips hat, adjusts monocle*. Today’s post title comes from an email exchange I had recently… an email exchange that relates to those annoying flyers you get in your mailbox where it says “Hi, my name is Annoyious Maximus, and I’m looking for properties in YOUR AREA!”. You know the ones… and even though we have a “No junk mail” sticker on the letterbox, somehow we still manage to get them. Are real estate agents desperate or something? We get like 2 a week from all kinds of real estate agents – it’s nuts!
Anyway, when I received this most recent one, I decided that I’m sick of them. So I opened it (I’ve become quite good at telling what they are without opening the envelope), found the guy’s email address, and decided to send him an email…
To: Bruce McIntyre
Subject: Properties
Importance: High
Dear Bruce,
What do I need to do to stop getting your junk mail in my letterbox?
Thank you.
- Andy.
From: Bruce McIntyre
To: [me]
Subject: RE: Properties
Let me sell your home.
From: [me]
To: Bruce McIntyre
Subject: RE: Properties
It’s a rental property; I don’t think the owner would like that.
From: Bruce McIntyre
To: [me]
Subject: RE: Properties
Where is your property situated? Do you have a no junk mail sign on your letter box?
From: [me]
To: Bruce McIntyre
Subject: RE: Properties
It’s at [address supplied]. And yes, there is a no junk mail sticker.
From: Bruce McIntyre
To: [me]
Subject: RE: Properties
Dear Andy,
Thank you for your response, we will do our best to ensure that our letter box dropping company is made aware and inturn avoid putting any further junk mail items in your letter box.
Kind regards
Mia Morris
Professional Assistant to
BRUCE MCINTYRE
Harcourts
…and there you have it. From Bruce’s first response, one can ascertain that he didn’t read my email properly and didn’t answer any of my questions. Nor does he seem to know how to sign off an email – no name, no email signature, nothing. The second email is much better, as you can see. And the third email – well, it seems that someone else entirely is now dealing with the issue (at least it’s getting dealt with). So thank you to “Mia” for sorting it out – I think.
So there you have it… if you too are sick of receiving those stupid “Let me sell your home” flyers in your letterbox, open one up, find their email address, and tell them to stop sending you their junk. I don’t even know how we got on their database in the first place, considering we’re renting & the tenants are most certainly not the people to ask when it comes to selling the property we live in.
Until next time… 
