macroban Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Well, maybe. How big is the pit? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSB79 Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 I noticed that just about all the desks were empty the other day. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 It's been empty ever since it opened as far as I can see. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I think the heads of the employees are also pretty empty Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macroban Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 You must have misunderstood, ????. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiepanda Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hmm, anywhere that won't recruit graduates until they are ready to start work isn't going to get the cream of the graduates unless something has signifcantly changed since I was a student. By the time I graduated, only those in my year who had specialized in drinking hadn't got jobs lined up to go to. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I expect that universities, including the Polys, are absolutely rammed with student saying they are intending to be Estate Agents.........maybe Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asset Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I'm not sure you need a degree to be an EA, my (half) brother certainly hasn't got one. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macroban Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Cynics, all of you. It's the Foxtons envy syndrome in you exposing itself.You could have got a job with Foxtons 18 months ago and now be Foxtons' East Dulwich Senior Lettings Valuer. But you didn't. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-128818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Senior Lettings Valuer!? Oh, that'll be ?2000pw then and a degree in surfing. Lol, I'll stick with my profession in the city, but thanks.Clearly you missed the 'Foxon's Documentary' that aired a couple of years ago to expose the sort of thing that goes on. What a joke!"A good degree in any subject." - lol Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
char1ie Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I'm just trying to buy a property through Foxtons and the Foxtons agent (typical Foxtons chick!) was telling me she has to make ?36k a week in commission. That must be a challenge at the moment.Charlie Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129103 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macroban Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 I'm not very good with numbers.Does this mean the young lady from Foxtons has to close ?1.8m of house sales per week to keep her job? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 bovvered?;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordship_bod Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 i think in any market the foxton's chick is in trouble.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 She'd be lucky to make that in a year. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizziedjango Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I am wondering if there is anyone, who lives locally, who has ever been pleased about Foxton's being here. I certainly don't know anyone who has expressed pleasure at there being a Foxtons Dulwich. Some of my journalist colleagues have even lambasted the ED agency in their respective newspapers, for being such an 'eyesore' on Lordship Lane e.g. Janice Turner in The Times. I agree it always looks woefully empty whenever I pass by - empty of punters, that is. There are certainly many ((((whispers))) posh boys out back, hammering away at their computers. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I've never seen many staff in there either. One or two on the front desk/reception and maybe another one or two on the funny looking desks.There looks to be enough space for maybe 40 of them but no way has there ever been the need for that many.C*nt-aquarium is perhaps a tad harsh but christ-on-a-bike did it have to be quite so monstrously large for such a low-demand business. And they wonder why they have financial troubles?!Easy, try renting smaller premises and buying fewer interior furnishings. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizziedjango Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 David, I am assuming that the Foxton's powers-that-be presumed, wrongly as it happens, that big equals better. They hoped that such a flash approach would have a dynamic impact upon the area - but it hasn't. Also the decor looks, in my opinion, ludicrous. The 'odd-trying to be modernist-but failing-dismally' chairs have always clashed horribly with the surrounding shops. The free-drinks-to-get-you-through-the-door stuff was never going to work either. It is all so superficial. Perhaps the Foxton's approach used to, and maybe still does, work in places like Clapham, Wandsworth, Notting Hill etc. but will the chain ever succeed around here? I somehow doubt it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee82 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I reckon it's got something to do with their ?350 'admin' fee. People are finally beginning to realise they're being ripped off...well it stuck in my throat anyway! However, I did still find it extremely difficult to turn down as the lettings agent was quite a looker and whipping out all her best lines (amongst other things). If Carlsberg made lettings agents, they'd probably look a little bit like Foxtons...I do like their recruitment policy, especially in the ED branch! Not much else going for it other than that... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Quote Perhaps the Foxton's approach used to, and maybe still does, work in places like Clapham, Wandsworth, Notting Hill etc. but will the chain ever succeed around here? I somehow doubt it.What, because E. Dulwich is somehow special compared to everywhere else? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizziedjango Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 No, I didn't mean for it to be construed in that way at all. Property prices are siginificantly higher in certain other parts of London, and also smaller shops seem to appeal to local punters. East Dulwich is not particularly 'special', but is is a nice place to live. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Fair play. Sorry. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcedOut Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 macroban - I think they typically make more than 2% commission. At least they used to. Even at a currently incomprehensible 4% commission, ?900k per week would still seem a 'little' aggressive in the current climate. I doubt they're making that as an entire branch.Good news is that Halifax will be closing branches all over the UK though, so let's hope that horrid little place on LL disappears soon. Good riddance (and yes, I have a personal issue with a certain agent in that place). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I don't especially mind them being there any more than the other agents.. or the dozen tedious curry houses..They could do something more interesting with the window space though. Mime artists, perhaps? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 An actual aquarium? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4042-goodbye-foxtons/#findComment-129287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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