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Mafia style marketing by Realtor.com
I read an interesting post this morning by Chris Smith over at Inman. The post is linked HERE, check it out and then come on back. Did you see what I saw? Realtor.com President Erroll Samuelson just walked into your "store" Paulie Walnuts style and offered you "protection". If you pay up, nothing bad will happen to you. If not, well, you know, things could happen. Now I realize realtor.com isn't owned by NAR since they sold us out years ago and that realtor.com is a for profit entity, I realize that they, like their competition (who are beating them by the way), are in the business of using our listings to steal our generate leads so that they can then sell them back to us. That being said, consumers have expressed a great interest in pictures for years now. They want to see them. Lots of them. Realtor.com is the only website I know of that harvests our listings via idx/data sharing agreements that limits pictures if you don't pay. You get 4. Thats it. If you pay you can have 25. Guess what? I have sometimes 50 plus pictures for some listings and zillow and trulia pull them all for me for FREE. 25? ... more
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