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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was recently pricing wedding photographers. They want $5,000 or more. Which is ridiculous! They don't add any value! I can get the minister to take photos or my Aunt Sarah! Or maybe I can get second cousin's nieces's son, who's working for a newspaper in Ohio! Hell, we can put those disposable cameras on the tables![/quote]

The wedding photography industry has a scheme in place that sets a fee of X% the total cost of the wedding, no matter the skill or effort or services brought by the photographer. An amateur moron with no experience whatsoever gets paid the same as Annie Leibovitz. The fee is there whether you need the service or not. This makes complete economic sense for the industry! Who cares if buyers and sellers of real estate are paying inflated fees! Think about the morons! [/quote]

What a terrible analogy. [/quote]

What a terrible response to an apt analogy. [/quote]

PP was right that it is a terrible analogy. But in any event, here's the bottom line: if you feel that you don't need a professional wedding photographer, you always have the choice to do without one. The current price-fixing scheme among agents effectively didn't allow you that same choice when buying a house -- this was what a jury found. So now, people will have a choice as to if and how they use a buyer's agent when buying a house.

The analogies are pointless, except to the extent they show that we had choices in every other professional we can choose to hire, and now we will have that same choice when buying a house. [/quote]

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