How not to sell a house

[sqbr]

So Cam and I are looking into buying a house. We first met a guy from Mortgage Choice. He was kind of weird.

We then met a woman from Aussie Home Loans, who was much nicer and suggested a much better sounding loan.

Just now Mortgage Choice guy rang up and asked for Cam. The entire point of his call? To figure out how to format a broken memory card.

I'm pretty sure one of the rules of salemanship is not randomly ringing up potential customers and asking them to do you a favour.

According to Cam it's one of the hazards of telling people you're a computer programmer. Which is unfortunate, since he hates helping people(*). Luckily while having a pure maths major got me lots of random "Omigodgrouptheortyishardandmyassignmentisduetommorrow" emails at uni it's not so bad now :) (That and I learned to say "Sure I'll help you, I charge $30 an hour")

(*)Well, helping them with their computers :)

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[firvulag.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Lee I'm much nastier when it comes to helping with computers. I saw the Harvey Norman charges board the other day and considered copying the charges and then knocking 10% off, just cos I'm 'nice'. I no longer will look at someone else's machine without it being on the clock unless they're nice to me and don't do it often and it isn't complex.

[alias_sqbr]

*thinks "Lee? Which Lee"*
*remembers you play poker*

Heh. Yeah, good plan :)