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Offered a bribe!

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Your word against his. It did not influence your value and the wording was such that it could easily have meant for you to speed things along. Forget it and move on.

Mike,

You are right. It is his word against mine. I am worried about covering my *** in case he decides to complain that I did take the money after which I then killed the deal.
 
Yeah, sure, but I'd like to see him explain *that* if the screws were put to him once he voiced his displeasure about it. Oh, that'd be a pay per view!

;^)

Dave...
 
This happened to me about 6 months ago. I called the lender on the spot, and declined the order as I felt the owner had contaminated the process, and could have claimed I took his money and did not deliver. That one was way overpriced too. I don't need any more hassles in this market than I already have. There are too many ways an attempted bribe can go bad.
 
While inspecting a way overpriced sale to make things more interesting (I already called the lender), while I was picking the best sales from the data, the seller and someone else approached my car. The other person gave me his first name and then said that he was a "representative" of the buyer. This person asked me which sales I was going to use. I told him that I had not yet decided. He then asked if an additional $500.00 would help move the process along. I couldn't help myself, I lied to him. I told him no thank you I get paid very well by the lender.:rof::rof::rof:

Since I already told the AMC, should I include the story in the report?

Wow, I'm insulted. I've only ever gotten an offer for $100 extra dollars to hit a target.
 
Let's see. $150,000 overpriced x 6% commission = $9,000. He was cheating you by 10x. You should have split the extra commission by asking for $5,000.
 
I'm interested to know what the AMC had to say if anything.
 
I think the report is about the property, not about all the BS that
surrounds the order. I'd just ignore it. A clear conscious is the
softest pillow.
 
I would use it make up the first batch of WWPED bracelets with the moral compass built in. :icon_idea:
 
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