A Quick Sale

Advantages: Quick, Convenient, Good market coverage
Disadvantages: Very expensive, exaggerate far too much, and completely inflexible

..., but to be fair a lot of people don't - Internet sites (Rightmove.co.uk); two-weekly newspaper (which is very good); local press adverts (as they all do); people randomly walking in (erm, yeah?); cross marketing with their other branches (excellent and something a lot of smaller outfits can't do). All in all, they do market the properties very well, and I needed a very quick sale so that was great for me. I signed up on the spot (their fees are in the punchline too!) and he then tried flogging me the conveyancing service of "Countrywide Property Lawyers" (Licensed Conveyancers) for £600.00 plus VAT plus Disbursements for something my own firm of solicitors does for £329.00 all inclusive! I explained again that I would be doing it myself and he tried to convince my that Countrywide Property Lawyers were SO good that I would be making a massive... Read review

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Advantages: None!
Disadvantages: Don't return calls, only 1 sales staff in the whole company!!!

...We bought a house through Edward Mellor. Despite their multiple offices around the Manchester area they only have ONE person who can handle sales!!! To make this worse, this person does not work weekends and is incredibly hard to get hold of. Even when I left voicemail messages for this person I only got called back around 1/2 of the time. I would have thought sales would be a pretty big area for an estate agents and having more than one person who can handle sales would be a sensible thing. It's incredibly frustrating when you've trying to move house, which is stressful on it's own, to be met by a wall of silence from the people handling 1/2 of that move. My confidence in their ability to handle sales means I certainly won't be using them for any sales I make myself in the future. When the big day came we moved in to our... Read review

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Advantages: Average APR, good cashback, no fee
Disadvantages: Worrying lack of security and constant sales pitches

...**Update** I cancelled my MDSW card in June and yesterday (2nd August) I got another sales call from them offering me card protection, again the security question was the first line of my address. I've finally after much shouting managed to get myself removed from their call list. ************************************************************************ I have grave concerns over the security measures used by the company and the sales staff who have pestered me trying to sell me card protection, and were extremely slow in approving and sending me the card. I first applied for the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Card when I started my first Graduate job. Let me set the scene. First job on a proper salary after graduation, huge bills on my HSBC card, working for a month before being paid (a standard picture for many people of my age... Read review

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