Argh - 5 mins too late!

Typical. My boyfs parents said they'd give us €5,000 extra for a house we really liked (allowing us to go up to €355 - the absolute max), but only told us this morning after we had put in what we had said was our final bid. We were outbid and I repeated the same.

THEN his parents piped up, I called again, and, with much credit due to the estate agent (even though I wanted to strangle her) she said that the vendor had just accepted the bit of €353 and she had told the buyer and so couldn't accept my bid.

Why did I have to get a decent EA?????

Sorry - just venting! I actually do think she did the right thing, but I suppose we all want the rules bent to suit us (and there's no saying that the buyers wouldn't have topped our bid again anyway).

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Typical. My boyfs parents said they'd give us €5,000 extra for a house we really liked (allowing us to go up to €355 - the absolute max), but only told us this morning after we had put in what we had said was our final bid. We were outbid and I repeated the same.

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You should have a word with the boyfriend's parents. That's obviously unacceptable!

Why did I have to get a decent EA?????

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I'm sure the eventual buyer of the property will think that they were decent in not gazumping them.

Lucky you! If you don't mind me asking - Does "€5000 extra" mean they have already given you a contribution?

They have been incredibly good - they apparently put €5000 by for each of their children years ago just for this purpose...

Also, I wouldn't have dreamed of gazumping someone. It was just the time issue (5 mins) that upset me. Mind, it was a Sherry Fitz EA and I wouldn't hesitate to buy with them now as I would be very confident that they wouldn't gazump me in turn. (Hope it's ok to mention the name)