Unscrupulous, Real Estate agent too Lazy to Drive to Big Bear

I don't usually use AR to complain about other Realtors or agents, but after what took place last week, it is time to vent!

I called a potential buyer about ten days ago as follow up from when she was visiting our web site.  This particular lady told me what she was looking for and I sent her a list of current listings in Big Bear that fit her needs.  The next Monday I received an email from the buyer asking for information on three of the listings that I sent over.  After providing her with more information on the properties, I learned that she was in Big Bear over the weekend and was able to access one of the properties when someone else was looking at it.  To make a long story short, the emails and phone calls when back and forth with the person asking me to write up an offer for her the following day and email it to her.  The next morning, I sent the offer over and then waited for her to send the paperwork back.  When nothing happened, I tried one more follow up the next day and was then told by her in email form that she was thanking me for all of my help, but she was having her friend who lived down the hill make the offer.

As Big Bear is a small community, it didn't take much research to find out that the friend who wrote the offer worked for a mortgage company and the person who signed the offer was a broker from a different brokerage all together.

I'm just curious; does this happen a lot in this industry?  Are there that many unscrupulous agents out there that tell their buyers to go to a place like Big Bear and pump the local Realtor for all of the information that you can.  Telling them that once the buyer feels comfortable with the information that they were able to obtain, to come back to the down the hill so that the friend can put the deal together.

If these agents were really thinking about their client best interest, they would either come to Big Bear and show them the property, or refer the client to a local Realtor.  A local Realtor who knows the market and can direct the buyer to a property where they will get the best value for their investment dollar.

These agent who do this don't give a da** about the client. It seems to me that all they care about is lining their own pockets