I can't remember when the last time I was stood up...maybe I haven't ever been stood up before..I don't know because I can't remember it. But today I was and I didn't like it one bit.
I had booked 4 condos to show a customer. We were to meet the listing agent at the first showing and then go on our own to see the rest.
This was to be our third time out and we had talked buyer agency representation but had not yet entered into that relationship. We had good rapport and I thought she felt comfortable with me.
Was I wrong? How could I have missed the boat on this?
I called her yesterday (Monday) as I had told her I would, during a layover from my flight home from St. Louis and left a detailed message about where to meet. I gave her all my contact information just in case...she was running late or needed to change the time.
I showed up 10 minutes early and the listing agent was already there. We made small talk as we waited and waited. Finally I called my customer on her cell phone, got voice mail and told her we were waiting and repeated the unit #...just in case I forgot to tell her which unit. Of course I had told her which unit but I was trying to save face...hers.
10 minutes later the co-broker has to leave. I'm mortified! He is looking at me with pity! No customer in sight. He must have thought what a fool! I was dumbstruck and didn't know what to do!
I drove to appointment # 2 and called her again, telling her that I would be waiting at that unit and while we no longer could get into the other one, we could still see the rest. I asked her to please call me on my cell and repeated the number to her. I was polite and concerned that maybe something happened to her.
I also called her house and was told by a teenager that she just left. Was she going to go see houses I ask? He told me he had no idea where she was going. So I decide to wait a little longer. After all I have nothing better to do than sit in my car waiting!
Feeling totally stupid I finally left. I've wasted a couple of hours of my time, gas, a co-brokers time, his gas and 4 sellers who prepared for showings that never happened.
Embarrassed, I called Jay and told him I had been stood up, he couldn't believe it! I was prepared for his lecture...he never gave it.
I have to ask...Where are manners today? Don't they matter anymore? How can someone book an appointment and simply not care enough to cancel it...to just let other people sit and wait. I don't get it.
My mother taught me to respect other people and it amazes me that something so simple...so easy can be so over looked...respect for other people! Didn't I deserve that much? Didn't those sellers?
RESPECT...is it really that hard? It's 10:30 pm and I still have not had the courtesy of a call back.
I'll call her again tomorrow morning but I really don't know what to say I'm simply so disappointed.
Update...I called and left a message this morning stating that I sure hoped everything was okay and asked that she call me to let me know...even if she found a house already with someone else. Just to please let me know. No call back as of yet. 6-13-07 7:39 pm
Update...June 16th, I don't bite...really I don't. All I ask is that my time is respected. I don't want to waste anyones time and would never push myself on anyone.
Serving Southern New Hampshire and Rockingham County
Jay and Monika McGillicuddy
Prudential Verani Realty
Hampstead NH
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