{"id":2287,"date":"2007-11-28T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2007-11-28T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:54:22","slug":"arrgghhh-i-would-love-it-if-the-paraarnar-would-stop-taking-my-money-but-if-they-wont-do-that-could-they-at-least-manage-to-get-the-hell-out-of-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2287\/arrgghhh-i-would-love-it-if-the-paraarnar-would-stop-taking-my-money-but-if-they-wont-do-that-could-they-at-least-manage-to-get-the-hell-out-of-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"ARRGGHHH! I would love it if the PAR\/AAR\/NAR would stop taking my money, but, if they won&#8217;t do that, could they at least manage to get the hell out of my way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So someone, somewhere in the alphabet soup of Realtor associations is selling my email address &#8212; or perhaps just giving it away. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daltonsazhomes.com\/blog\/11282007\/technological-stupidity-rolling-downhill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Realtors all over Phoenix<\/a> are watching an idiot&#8217;s spam-fest, as one clueless victim after another tries to escape the spam spiral started by an agent who seems not to know that we discover properties for sale in the MLS system &#8212; that this is what the MLS system is for.<\/p>\n<p>This by itself is nothing. I get at least a thousand spam emails every day. Moreover, I know that a lot of people in my profession get painfully flustered when they sit down at a computer &#8212; so worried they&#8217;ll make a mistake that they cause a disaster instead.<\/p>\n<p>But I am sick to death of being &#8220;led&#8221; by morons.<\/p>\n<p>Witness:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ZipForms does not work. It is crap software written by crap minds, with its bugs exceeded only by its omission of rational options. It was rammed down our throats by idiots at the AAR who obviously do not themselves use it. And yet, come the start of the year, we will have no choice but to use this piece of garbage &#8212; a fate which includes the vast legions of the flustered and the flummoxed.\n<\/li>\n<li>And because ZipForms has not been a big enough disaster, the AAR is now preparing to ram a piece of transaction-processing software down our throats &#8212; which will almost certainly <i>also<\/i> be a piece of buggy Windows-centric crap.\n<\/li>\n<li>The idiotic gateway software in our idiotic MLS system has <i>never<\/i> worked in Safari for the Macintosh. We&#8217;re getting rid of that crap vendor, thank god, but it is of a piece with the way the chefs of the alphabet soup have operated, that <i>nothing<\/i> they have promoted, until now, worked properly on the Macintosh.\n<\/li>\n<li>They spam me, and they sell or give my email address to spammers &#8212; and they charge me <i>hundreds<\/i> of dollars a year to deliver my inbox up to this rape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care that other people don&#8217;t thrive at my wavelength. That&#8217;s understood. But I <i>do<\/i> care that they use power I never ceded to them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2287\/arrgghhh-i-would-love-it-if-the-paraarnar-would-stop-taking-my-money-but-if-they-wont-do-that-could-they-at-least-manage-to-get-the-hell-out-of-my-way\/#more-2287\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So someone, somewhere in the alphabet soup of Realtor associations is selling my email address &#8212; or perhaps just giving it away. Realtors all over Phoenix are watching an idiot&#8217;s spam-fest, as one clueless victim after another tries to escape the spam spiral started by an agent who seems not to know that we discover [&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":[4,6,5,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2287","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-supplanting-the-nar","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3862,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3862\/the-mls-50-manifesto-everyone-working-in-hi-tech-real-estate-must-oppose-this-vicious-plan-with-every-fiber-in-your-being\/","url_meta":{"origin":2287,"position":0},"title":"The &#8220;MLS 5.0&#8221; Manifesto: Everyone working in hi-tech real estate must oppose this vicious plan with every fiber in your being","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Oh that the Roman people had but one neck, that I might cut it off at a blow!\" --CaligulaHere is the naked essence of Saul Klein's so-called \"MLS 5.0\" proposal:The MLS of the future will bring a marketing service and benefit to the industry by being the single point of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14358,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14358\/is-it-really-just-the-mls\/","url_meta":{"origin":2287,"position":1},"title":"Is It Really Just The MLS?","author":"Ryan Hartman","date":"March 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Greg's post a few minutes ago lit me up. I'm pretty sure that just like Greg a majority of NAR members pay their dues each year for just one reason: To get access to the local MLS system. If this is really true, then forcing changes at NAR or killing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Supplanting the NAR&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Supplanting the NAR","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/supplanting-the-nar\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-29-at-11.55.17-AM.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2953,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2953\/big-news-on-data-standards\/","url_meta":{"origin":2287,"position":2},"title":"Big News on Data Standards","author":"Dave Phillips","date":"April 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"photo credit: wfyurasko I\u2019m guessing that the main purpose of BHB is not to spread the news \u2013 especially NAR news. \u00a0Being the resident NAR insider on BHB, I promise I will not use this site to spread NAR propaganda\u2026er\u2026news.\u00a0 But this quiet piece of information is actually VERY big\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19291,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/19291\/attn-national-association-of-realtors-you-cannot-go-to-hell-fast-enough-for-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":2287,"position":3},"title":"Attn. 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