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Realtors in the www.Scroogle.org Age

Gone are the days when agents can just talk up the market. But you have to believe me when I say "The prices can only go up", I'm wearing a suit and have a nice flashy car!

Or are they?

From a contributor to The Guardian commenting on an article about recently university graduated members of Generation Y:

"The "corporate psychological manipulation" has always been around, but nowadays with so many graduates in psychology we are far more aware of it. The newspapers, some of them, continue to try and cover up the truth but it is much harder to hide. I am sure that one reason the current housing and banking crisis is spreading so fast is that this is the first Internet recession. Estate agents can lie as much as they like, and pretend that house prices will rise slightly in 2008 - stabilise - fall 3% - fall 8% but anybody with an internet connection can quickly find that the OECD is effectively predicting a 20-30% fall, so the news cannot be manipulated so easily. Astroturfers and tabloids can pretend that anthropogenic climate change is a myth, but anybody with an Internet connection can quickly find that they are reporting the views of the unqualified, or research from the 1980s."

I have already started a thread on the New Media v Old Media wars presently taking place, but there is no doubt from this gentleman's comment (above) that the shysters and fraudster salesmen of any product, who for the preceding decades have made a living providing a service often with more than just a hint of dishonesty, can no longer operate as easily.

Its now the time when your grandmother can advertise her villa on Goa for sale on every appropriate internet forum in New York, London and every other place in the world that has a wireless or wired connection.

What predictions do you hold for this new age?

A newfound disdain for realtors, and other persons in positions of "authority" when it comes to selling goods, homes and just about anything else - is that the natural consequence?

Or will people continue to act like sheep?