Comments on: Competition Bureau Shakes Up Multiple Listing Service (MLS)®

By: What the CREA, Competition Bureau decision means to you | O'Neill Real Estate, The Beach, Toronto

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:35:03 +0000

[...] as real estate comparative market analyses (CMAs), consultations or even supervising an open house.I previously gave my thoughts on the ruling by the Competition Bureau almost exactly one year ago and my opinion still stands. I believe this is the right decision. It [...]

By: George O'Neill

George O'Neill — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:42:15 +0000

Dear Thenonconformer,

If your experience is true it does not sound pleasant. None of what you said has happened to me.

George

By: thenonconformer

thenonconformer — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:44:44 +0000

I had worked for AE LePage Realtors and shortly had quit when I had found out about their much too common scams, false, immoral, restrictive trade practises they are involved in.

1: They tend to consciously encourage new persons to join the firms and systematically lay them off.. they use the new employees for new real estate sales contacts, and local managers tend to pass on all the sale inquires to established existing sales personnel and the rookies get no financial benefit from their own hard work, input..

2: On their weekly homes for sale open homes visits by the staff, they only visit their own listings and discourage sales at any of the competitors listings.. they try to encourage their staff to only buy and sell their own listings. Hoping to double the commissions earnings.

3 And they also often clearly do lie to their customers about the actual type of sales presentations they will do for them too. Newspaper ads are the most effective approach but they are too cheap to pay for too many of them.. http://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/competition-bureau-seeks-to-smash-%e2%80%98anti-competitive-crea-rules-on-mls/