Estate Agent Flyers

Bakers2 replied on 14/11/2016 12:53

Posted on 14/11/2016 12:53

We are lucky enough to live in a highly desirable area, we've been here 32 years and haven't brought the area down yet!

We have great schools from nursery to senior including 6th form and a college all withinvery easy walking distance.  We have selective grammar schools for boys and girls within walking further distance as well as a further selection of schools.  We can also walk into town.  Buses have been cut over the years (we no longer have first owners of our houses built in 1930's in our road, but there is one of 103 in a nearby road - many well over 90 and several past 100) as those who used them have moved on, but still a few a day.

Properties sell very quickly and we are getting fed up with constant bombardment from estate agents in the form of flyers through our door sometimes more than one agent a day Yell.  Are we alone in this or does it happen to others?

Once again today we've been informed we will soon have new neighbours and would we like to sell our property through us?  They don't even offer to give a discount should you consider doing so.  IF we were selling our property I would certainly be asking for discounts and playing one against the other to get the best deal.  In fact I'd probably go it alone if they go as fast as they seem to - hot cakes are slow comparedWink

Tinwheeler replied on 14/11/2016 16:02

Posted on 14/11/2016 16:02

My sister to lives in a much sought after area as estate agents say, but it's an over 55 no children resident other than grandchildren visit and the odd stay over, she to receives such a large amount of junk mail , but there problem mainly is the Royal Mail postman she gets at least 2 pieces  of junk for every letter he post being in a vunrable age area most are well in there late 60s surely this is very poor judgement by someone in the post office .....no wonder they need those big trolleys we see them pushing around 

We live in a similarly restricted environment, Ruby, but get very little junk mail. 

Royal Mail are paid to deliver the junk so that's what they will do as it's not for them to censor or descriminate who they deliver to. 

Isn't there an organisation we can register with along the lines of the TPS but for mail rather than telephone calls?

paul56 replied on 14/11/2016 16:27

Posted on 14/11/2016 16:27

Our main problem is plastic charity bags asking for virtually anything and everything. It is at least a one a day occurence. 

Bakers2 replied on 14/11/2016 17:47

Posted on 14/11/2016 17:47

So we are not alone. Don't get many charity sacks but I reuse the bag myself. Tried leaving them out, as they suggest, for collection. They never went so now I use them.

Tammygirl replied on 14/11/2016 17:57

Posted on 14/11/2016 17:57

We don't get a lot of flyers other than the ones the Royal mail push through, great living in a village out the way. We do get the charity bags now and again, they seem to come in batches nothing for weeks/months then all of them within days. Nobody seems to come and collect the goods though, So like others I use them.

robsail replied on 14/11/2016 18:14

Posted on 14/11/2016 18:14

Those bags can be invaluable for packing if you're moving house.

Write your comments here...just make sure you don't leave the bags out on the day of the collection,!!!!!

Rubytuesday replied on 14/11/2016 18:20

Posted on 14/11/2016 18:20

Tinwheeler, she has tried MPS with no luck yet , she is hoping to get more in the area as well to join her stop the junk mail campaign,

as for charity bags I love them , we have been paying for bags in Wales a long while now, so when they drop through the door great  for us we always manage to fill them with rubbish for the tip or just bin liners Laughing

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