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Dear @househelputah:
I am not going to sign up for your website simply in order to view your listings. Had I been going to buy a home soon, this would have turned me off so completely that I would have gone to a different realtor.
The "help us fight spam" verification is a special sort of icing on that particular cake.
Do not lock me out of looking at your listings by forcing me to sign up for spam from you. Were I listing a home with you, I would be doubly upset.
So, yeah, we wandered down to Mount Pleasant to look at semi-retirement properties today, and I went to the website of one of the houses we saw for sale. It let me look at a couple, but then when I tried to look at another, it redirected me to their "sign up for us!" page and would not let me proceed without doing so. Needless to say, I am miffed. And who knows whether THE HOUSE that we might have bought was there, because I've now been driven away by a frankly ridiculous requirement.
The "help us fight spam" verification is a special sort of icing on that particular cake.
Do not lock me out of looking at your listings by forcing me to sign up for spam from you. Were I listing a home with you, I would be doubly upset.
So, yeah, we wandered down to Mount Pleasant to look at semi-retirement properties today, and I went to the website of one of the houses we saw for sale. It let me look at a couple, but then when I tried to look at another, it redirected me to their "sign up for us!" page and would not let me proceed without doing so. Needless to say, I am miffed. And who knows whether THE HOUSE that we might have bought was there, because I've now been driven away by a frankly ridiculous requirement.