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Agents do not have to work with anyone they don't want to, and so she doesn't have to deal with your bs phone calls and as the pp's mentioned, she deemed you as not serious and as such, doesn't have to do anything. 
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Why is that? If an offer comes via an agent they don't get along with, they should still deal with them, right? They represent their client's (sellers's) best interests.

What's next, shopkeepers who refuse to sell to clients they don't like? That's not a very good way to do business.[/quote]

That's an OFFER. Totally different than a potential client. You misread what was written. An agent doesn't have to return calls of someone who isn't a client and isn't a party to a transaction. Ask any broker about this and they'll tell you, they don't have to work with anyone they don't want to.[/quote]

That's not what my one-time agent told me.  She had put in a call for me to see a house, and the agent hadn't responded in about 24 hours, and she said, "It's against [whatever it was] for him not to respond.  I'll contact him again."   So I'm assuming there should be no discrimination up front.[/quote]

this is different. an agent called another agent. so it is obvious that the called agent was supposed to respond. in this sense I agree with you, there should be no discrimination up front. but in this case it was a random stranger calling the seller's agent and asking the sellers' agent to open the house. I do think that it would be a good policy to respond and show the house, but the reality is that in a very hot market with low inventory, adn i a very busy tiume of the year of agent, I understand why an agent does not return a call. ffor the agent it would be simply give two hours of her time to a stranger who may simply wqalk away and say thank you, while she may have her own clients to take around to see homes[/quote]

Totally agree with the last response. It's different if it's agent to agent. In that case, if an agent didn't respond to me (I'm an agent) I would report them thru the MLS function and question if the house is even listed as they are not returning calls. But a customer calling an agent - the agent doesn't have to return that call. It's stupid not to, but if they start to hear that you want to be unrepresented, and that god forbid you are a lawyer, you'll be too much trouble for their clients - the sellers. So see, that agent sized you up and deemed you a time-waste for their clients. So you're looking at it backward from how we do - the agent did do their job. They also offered to have another agent in their firm help you, right?

I don't deny there are a lot of really bad craptastic agents out there. But we're not all bad. Man, I go to bat for my clients and I have no problems reaching in my own pocket to make a deal go if I need to. In the case of OP though, he's not understanding that he won't really get any savings, that money goes to the Listing Agent. I've seen it happen tons of times, totally frustrating but true. If money goes back to the buyers, someone has to pay that money - if it came from the agent then there's a whole other implication there. The have to pay taxes anyway on what they give you. If they cite it as a business expense, they have to give you a 1099. Bah. It's all a big mess. [/quote]

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