I want to write a follow up to a post I wrote last month regarding the new Listing service Zillow rolled out in December.  I wrote about what I saw as a serious flaw in the posting of listings to Zillow.  It seemed as if Zillow was using credit card verification to verify Listings as belonging to a particular agent.  I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they did that.

But give credit to David G. over at Zillow for reading my posts on Active Rain and on my personal blog and responding to the posts and the comments that followed.  It took a while but I think they figured out a way to get out of their own way, so to speak.  As of today, we were able to put 26 listings into zillow without once being asked for a credit card.

Thanks go out to the bloggers that commented.  This was a good example of the power of the blog.

And my hats off to David G. for changing the policy so quickly.

 
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3 Comments on Zillow Responds to Active Rain Blog

JAN
04
2007
131,334 Points 14 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Thanks for the update I did visit the site and noticed that they wanted my charge card and quickly exited.

How having my charge card proved I was the listing agent was beyond me.

Thanks Jay 

4:16pm • #1
JAN
10
2007
837,600 Points 213 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

I am of the opinion that they sell information scrapped from postings to their site.

I have received spam with information linked ONLY to the property search that I entered into their system. 

12:27pm • #2
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Hi, it's David G from Zillow.com

Tony -

Your feedback was very useful, thank you. Keep it coming!

Lenn - 

I'm sorry that you were spammed but it's not possible that resulted from your search on Zillow.com. We are not selling your information and do treat our sites users' personal private information as strictly confidential. Please review our privacy policy for more detail: http://www.zillow.com/corp/Privacy.htm

 

6:56pm • #3

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