Comment and Run – Handling the Angry Anonymous

I received a comment on this blog responding to a post comparing real estate brokerages to retail stores.  The post, titled “What Type of Real Estate Experience Do You Want?  Part 1 – Nordstrom,“ argued that there are two major types of retail shopping experiences – Walmart & Nordstrom – as there are real estate buying experiences.  The high end service costs more but you get more service, expertise and a better experience.  The low end is less expensive but you receive little in the way of service or quality.

Here’s the unedited comment:

 ”more attempts by realtors to make people think the service they provide
is worth the 6% commission they make when one of the homes in their
inventory actually sells with some sort of ludicris analogy of discount
vs upscale retail stores.  All real estate commissions should be
eliminated and the agents forced to take real jobs … sorry to spoil your
Xmas cheer, but the days of the real estate agents are slowly coming to an
end.  The middle class needs to wake up to the gouging they’ve
received from the realtor crowd.  Perhaps anyone that goes into foreclosure -
the realtor should be forced to return the sales commission they
“earned” to help defray the court costs for the consumer that gets their
house taken from them in a bankruptcy proceeding.”

I deleted it- it’s obnoxious and it doesn’t address anything other than this individual’s personal problem with realtors.  To suggest that realtors should be personally responsible for a homeowner’s foreclosure is just ridiculous.  Do I blame and sue Sears for selling me a dishwasher that I can’t afford when my credit card company calls a collection company on me? 

After some thought, I changed my mind and couldn’t retrieve the message.  I would have commented on it on the blog but I decided to personally e-mail the person who commented.

Guess what?  The e-mail address is invalid.  Afraid that I might add him/her to a mailing list?  Or that someone may recognize his/her name and know what dumb things he/she says in private?  Or that someone may see what a bad speller he/she is?

 

Here I am, putting myself out to the world, with my address, picture, etc.  And then, this person posts an obnoxious comment and doesn’t have the nerve to use a valid e-mail address.  You know who I am – but who are you?