{"id":1406,"date":"2007-05-10T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2007-05-13T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T02:50:16","slug":"the-nars-operation-tip-off-how-to-make-yourself-look-guilty-by-protesting-your-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1406\/the-nars-operation-tip-off-how-to-make-yourself-look-guilty-by-protesting-your-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"The NAR&#8217;s Operation Tip-Off: How to make yourself look guilty by protesting your innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getrestnow.com\/newsite\/REST\/REST\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Hardy of Real Estate Success Tools<\/a> sends along a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/60MinutesTipOff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the NAR&#8217;s press release on this Sunday&#8217;s <i>60 Minutes<\/i> Redfin PR puff piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are led by buffoons, avidly drawing attention to the stuff they want everyone to ignore. Two words is too many in reply to this crap: So what? Discount Realtors are nature&#8217;s perfect revenge on people who crave real estate discounts. The intelligent response is not to shout, like Redfin, &#8220;We&#8217;ll do nothing for even less!&#8221; but to offer a quality product at a fair price &#8212; and then actually <i>deliver<\/i> it.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/compensation for buyer representation\" rel=\"tag\">compensation for buyer representation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Hardy of Real Estate Success Tools sends along a copy of the NAR&#8217;s press release on this Sunday&#8217;s 60 Minutes Redfin PR puff piece. We are led by buffoons, avidly drawing attention to the stuff they want everyone to ignore. Two words is too many in reply to this crap: So what? Discount Realtors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5,27,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-redfincom","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1438,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1438\/not-to-be-missed-marlow-the-hammer-harris-on-the-redfin-hustle\/","url_meta":{"origin":1406,"position":0},"title":"Not to be missed: Marlow (The Hammer) Harris on the Redfin hustle","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Eminently worth waiting for:I\u2019d love to be a fly on the wall at those meetings with the investors and venture capitalists. Pie charts, graphs, facts, figures. Lots of talk about disintermediation and volume of scale and that sort of thing. When Redfin fails, they won\u2019t blame themselves, the business model,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/217\/i-think-this-my-be-the-more-interesting-redfin-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":1406,"position":1},"title":"I think this may be the more interesting RedFin news . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Founder David Eraker to Leave Redfin. It certainly couldn't be because he was acting too much like a hard-headed real estate broker... 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