$2M Sale and realtor thanked us with a Yeti.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so easy to give a gift and stay on good terms with your clients who just made you a ton of money.

And for the agent it’s a tax deductible business expense! It’s not even money out of their pocket, the government ends up paying for this stuff.

Exactly.. and the OP's house sold for $2M. That is a huge commission. They couldn't be bothered to put thought into a thank-you gift? This realtor should be ashamed.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP. This has nothing to do with the options either a gift or cutting commission. It's a thank you. And frankly a good business practice on the part of the realtor. Every realtor we've used, except our first one who was brand new, gave us a gift.

Same with our friends.

Well said. OP would have been fine with no gift, but don't send marketing materials to your clients as a thank you for earning $30K. That's essentially a gift to the realtor for the clients to give you free marketing. Something like a tumbler with the realtor's name should be given as promotional materials to drum up business, not as a thank you for business they just gave you. Maybe it could be given alongside a real gift for closing.

It would be wise for realtors to give a small gift after each transaction. If it went well, then it would end the deal on a very positive note and make the clients more likely to refer people to you and use you again. If it went badly, then it might soften the blow and keep your clients from bad mouthing you. A bottle of wine, gourmet food, or something the clients like are all inexpensive options that could net you another transaction.

Also you might avoid a childish and petty former client naming you on a public message board. Anonymously, of course.

I didn't do this, but why shouldn't people share positive and negative referrals? That's how this business works.

Right. Public comments/feedback are all over the place, DCUM is no different.

[Anonymous]

Maybe there was supposed to be a gift card inside? Have you looked??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always thought it was kind of weird that our agent gave us nothing. We are a young family and bought a very expensive house. She only showed us 6-7 houses total. I feel like we were pretty easy clients. She’s also never reached out to us in the 3 years since. It’s so odd. In the market where we live, there aren’t a lot of people who can afford a house like the one we bought. I’m just surprised she’s not trying to keep a relationship going.

Maybe she didn’t like us??

I find that very odd too! Even if she didn’t like you I would think she would want to keep in touch for future business/ referrals. It’s her loss. I’m so confused by realtors who don’t acknowledge their clients. The past two houses we have bought, each with different realtors, we have not received so much as a verbal thank you for our business.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP. This has nothing to do with the options either a gift or cutting commission. It's a thank you. And frankly a good business practice on the part of the realtor. Every realtor we've used, except our first one who was brand new, gave us a gift.

Same with our friends.

Well said. OP would have been fine with no gift, but don't send marketing materials to your clients as a thank you for earning $30K. That's essentially a gift to the realtor for the clients to give you free marketing. Something like a tumbler with the realtor's name should be given as promotional materials to drum up business, not as a thank you for business they just gave you. Maybe it could be given alongside a real gift for closing.

It would be wise for realtors to give a small gift after each transaction. If it went well, then it would end the deal on a very positive note and make the clients more likely to refer people to you and use you again. If it went badly, then it might soften the blow and keep your clients from bad mouthing you. A bottle of wine, gourmet food, or something the clients like are all inexpensive options that could net you another transaction.

Also you might avoid a childish and petty former client naming you on a public message board. Anonymously, of course.

I didn't do this, but why shouldn't people share positive and negative referrals? That's how this business works.

OP, we have bought millions of dollars of real estate without a realtor gift, and it makes no matter to us whatsoever.

I agree maybe nothing at all would have been sufficient, in your case.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP. This has nothing to do with the options either a gift or cutting commission. It's a thank you. And frankly a good business practice on the part of the realtor. Every realtor we've used, except our first one who was brand new, gave us a gift.

Same with our friends.

Well said. OP would have been fine with no gift, but don't send marketing materials to your clients as a thank you for earning $30K. That's essentially a gift to the realtor for the clients to give you free marketing. Something like a tumbler with the realtor's name should be given as promotional materials to drum up business, not as a thank you for business they just gave you. Maybe it could be given alongside a real gift for closing.

It would be wise for realtors to give a small gift after each transaction. If it went well, then it would end the deal on a very positive note and make the clients more likely to refer people to you and use you again. If it went badly, then it might soften the blow and keep your clients from bad mouthing you. A bottle of wine, gourmet food, or something the clients like are all inexpensive options that could net you another transaction.

Also you might avoid a childish and petty former client naming you on a public message board. Anonymously, of course.

I didn't do this, but why shouldn't people share positive and negative referrals? That's how this business works.

OP, we have bought millions of dollars of real estate without a realtor gift, and it makes no matter to us whatsoever.

I agree maybe nothing at all would have been sufficient, in your case.

This is us as well. It’s a business relationship. I don’t need my realtor to stroke my ego but it seems there are lots of people who do.

[Anonymous]

We bought/sold about 1 million of real estate with my agent. He gave us a mug with a picture of our new house...and the wrong address listed on it.

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I got nasty ethnically labeled wine. Just nasty

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Anonymous wrote:I've bought and sold several houses in my time. I've always had thoughtful/genuine thank you gifts from realtors on the selling side. This one gifted us with a Yeti, a branded one mind you. I would rather nothing at all than some piece of office merch..

At first I thought you meant that they bought you a nice cooler (many hundreds of dollars) and was confused about why you didn't think this was a nice gift.

But they bought you a gas station coffee mug? LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got nasty ethnically labeled wine. Just nasty

Um, what exactly does "ethnically labeled wine" mean?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've never bought a house so honest question: what do you think would be an appropriate gift?

*painting of the house we moved from
*gift baskets
*good bottles of wine
*theater tix

It's not about the $$ spent, but the thought. I would take a $40 bottle of wine over an office branded yeti anyday.

Ditto.

Large gift baskets, a printer and a large gift basket, and paid for half of a roof replacement. The last agent who got a ridiculous commission for doing very, very little work was insulting to me, the wife, was incompetent and shushed me when I saw problems being ignored during the inspection and was useless when we saw the owner did none of the things they agreed to in the contract after the inspection. She suggested we owed her a gift.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP. This has nothing to do with the options either a gift or cutting commission. It's a thank you. And frankly a good business practice on the part of the realtor. Every realtor we've used, except our first one who was brand new, gave us a gift.

Same with our friends.

Well said. OP would have been fine with no gift, but don't send marketing materials to your clients as a thank you for earning $30K. That's essentially a gift to the realtor for the clients to give you free marketing. Something like a tumbler with the realtor's name should be given as promotional materials to drum up business, not as a thank you for business they just gave you. Maybe it could be given alongside a real gift for closing.

It would be wise for realtors to give a small gift after each transaction. If it went well, then it would end the deal on a very positive note and make the clients more likely to refer people to you and use you again. If it went badly, then it might soften the blow and keep your clients from bad mouthing you. A bottle of wine, gourmet food, or something the clients like are all inexpensive options that could net you another transaction.

Also you might avoid a childish and petty former client naming you on a public message board. Anonymously, of course.

I didn't do this, but why shouldn't people share positive and negative referrals? That's how this business works.

OP, we have bought millions of dollars of real estate without a realtor gift, and it makes no matter to us whatsoever.

I agree maybe nothing at all would have been sufficient, in your case.

This is us as well. It’s a business relationship. I don’t need my realtor to stroke my ego but it seems there are lots of people who do.

It has nothing t o do with egos other than the agent's. It would be nice if the agent showed some appreciation for the large sum of money they received for doing very little.

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Anonymous wrote:I love Yeti tumblrs.

OP, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you were likely the kind of client who deserved no gift.

Be grateful that you got something. Thank your agent for selling the house.

I'm not op but you and your ilk are the reason we are all moving away from agents. What an entitled azz you are. All I needed was to get my house listed in the mls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We bought/sold about 1 million of real estate with my agent. He gave us a mug with a picture of our new house...and the wrong address listed on it.

Sorry but I’m laughing at this one! That’s actually so funny and extremely humiliating for the realtor! Did you tell him or let it go?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP. This has nothing to do with the options either a gift or cutting commission. It's a thank you. And frankly a good business practice on the part of the realtor. Every realtor we've used, except our first one who was brand new, gave us a gift.

Same with our friends.

Well said. OP would have been fine with no gift, but don't send marketing materials to your clients as a thank you for earning $30K. That's essentially a gift to the realtor for the clients to give you free marketing. Something like a tumbler with the realtor's name should be given as promotional materials to drum up business, not as a thank you for business they just gave you. Maybe it could be given alongside a real gift for closing.

It would be wise for realtors to give a small gift after each transaction. If it went well, then it would end the deal on a very positive note and make the clients more likely to refer people to you and use you again. If it went badly, then it might soften the blow and keep your clients from bad mouthing you. A bottle of wine, gourmet food, or something the clients like are all inexpensive options that could net you another transaction.

Also you might avoid a childish and petty former client naming you on a public message board. Anonymously, of course.

I didn't do this, but why shouldn't people share positive and negative referrals? That's how this business works.

OP, we have bought millions of dollars of real estate without a realtor gift, and it makes no matter to us whatsoever.

I agree maybe nothing at all would have been sufficient, in your case.

This is us as well. It’s a business relationship. I don’t need my realtor to stroke my ego but it seems there are lots of people who do.

It has nothing t o do with egos other than the agent's. It would be nice if the agent showed some appreciation for the large sum of money they received for doing very little.

Showed appreciation = stroke your ego.

Why don’t you use Redfin and save that money?