Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp
gzgz@lemmy.zip 14 hours agoYes I can call, but it‘s much less preferred as I‘m not a native speaker and it‘s easier for me to communicate in a written form, plus our timings can be different. Anyway I‘m not buying a house, I‘m just looking for a rental apartment, and in the country I live you can‘t pay to real estate agents for this purpose (it‘s prohibited). They are getting paid by the landlords instead, plus the rental market is pretty scarce so usually they don‘t give a fuck about you as they have a ton of inquiries from other potential renters
tal@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
I’d just SMS them and see if they respond. I mean, you’re setting up a viewing. That shouldn’t take that many messages.
echodot@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Living as someone who’s in a WhatsApp country, the absolutely won’t respond to texts. Nobody texts anybody, even old people don’t use SMS.
If I get an SMS I won’t even see it because I have notifications disabled because all I ever got was spam.
9point6@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I think you’ve got the power dynamic wrong here
If OP is having to contact loads of estate agents, it’s probably because they live somewhere with in-demand property.
That means those estate agents are going to have loads of potential people to sell to
Someone who wants to do something differently than everyone else is going to get a lower priority over someone who just does everything they are asked without question.
The estate agent doesn’t really lose anything by doing this, OP risks reducing their chances at getting a place, ostensibly one they need to live in at some point soon.
Kissaki@feddit.org 12 hours ago
If it’s more than one person they may use Whatsapp for business with a direct channel without a phone.