{"id":597,"date":"2006-11-03T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T04:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2007-04-01T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T16:50:32","slug":"the-zillowcom-shake-down-at-last-a-discouraging-word-about-ncrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/597\/the-zillowcom-shake-down-at-last-a-discouraging-word-about-ncrc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zillow.com shake-down: At last a discouraging word about NCRC . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, it might be a little naive, but it&#8217;s something. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercextra.com\/blogs\/realestate\/2006\/11\/03\/concerned_for_consumers_or_jus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Square Feet Blog at the <i>San Jose Mercury News<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So why has the NCRC decided to announce that Zillow is putting the American Dream in peril? What do you think? Genuine concern for consumers, or or just pining for some publicity? Perhaps a little of both, but my instincts go with the latter explanation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publicity is the means. Lucre is the end, I remain convinced.<\/p>\n<p>But: Here&#8217;s another chance for someone with access to a Lexis\/Nexis database to investigate NCRC.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the pattern I see in NCRC news stories:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Scandalous&#8221; situation announced, some sort of formal action initiated.<\/p>\n<p>2. Parties meet.<\/p>\n<p>3. Settlement announced with NCRC getting funds from formerly &#8220;scandalous&#8221; party, now cleansed\/absolved by affiliation with NCRC.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a wonderful thing for Zillow.com and the entire dot.com world if a reporter would look beyond the words &#8220;non-profit&#8221; to find out how NCRC is funded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Our story so far:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=574\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to Race Piracy 2.0: Zillow.com is targetted for the crime of having deep pockets&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=575\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow.com shake-down: This is the first shoe dropping&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=580\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow.com shake-down: Creeping disclaimerism as a subject-changing gambit&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=581\" target=\"_blank\">The Zillow.com shake-down: How the other shoe will drop&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=585\" target=\"_blank\">The Zillow.com shake-down: BloodhoundBlog&#8217;s take so far &#8212; and a chance to win a BloodhoundRealty.com Tee Shirt&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=589\" target=\"_blank\">The Zillow.com shake-down: Preparing for the denouement&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=591\" target=\"_blank\">The Zillow.com shake-down: The piling on begins &#8212; and Spencer Tracy is nowhere to be found&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=592\" target=\"_blank\">Defending Zillow.com&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=597\" target=\"_blank\">The Zillow.com shake-down: At last a discouraging word about NCRC&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=635\" target=\"_blank\">Avid AVM aversion extends only to Zillow.com: NCRC off-shoot starts competing on-line valuation service&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=669\" target=\"_blank\">The Zillow.com shake-down: Deconstructing the NCRC complaint&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/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>All right, it might be a little naive, but it&#8217;s something. From the Square Feet Blog at the San Jose Mercury News: So why has the NCRC decided to announce that Zillow is putting the American Dream in peril? What do you think? Genuine concern for consumers, or or just pining for some publicity? Perhaps [&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":[3,4,6,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1435,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1435\/ftc-to-ncrc-regarding-zillowcom-what-price-justice\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"FTC to NCRC regarding Zillow.com: What price justice?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The attempted shakedown of Zillow.com that began last October -- when The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaining that the nascent Seattle-based Automated Valuation Model (AVM) was misleading minority homeowners about the value of their homes -- has come to stunningly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":585,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/585\/the-zillowcom-shake-down-bloodhounds-take-so-far-and-a-chance-to-win-a-bloodhoundrealtycom-tee-shirt\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":1},"title":"The Zillow.com shake-down: BloodhoundBlog&#8217;s take so far &#8212; and a chance to win a BloodhoundRealty.com Tee Shirt . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If Inman Blog sent you here, here is our side of the story so far:Welcome to Race Piracy 2.0: Zillow.com is targetted for the crime of having deep pockets...Zillow.com shake-down: This is the first shoe dropping...Zillow.com shake-down: Creeping disclaimerism as a subject-changing gambit...The Zillow.com shake-down: How the other shoe will\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":635,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/635\/avid-avm-aversion-extends-only-to-zillowcom-ncrc-off-shoot-starts-competing-on-line-valuation-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":2},"title":"Avid AVM aversion extends only to Zillow.com: NCRC off-shoot starts competing on-line valuation service . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Curiouser and curiouser. 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