The Spot: A title card reads "The Debate." We fade in on a couple standing in their kitchen, arguing about whether to buy a new house. The wife is the aggressor; the husband has his doubts. "Suzann...
The Spot: A title card reads "The Debate." We fade in on a couple standing in their kitchen, arguing about whether to buy a new house. The wife is the aggressor; the husband has his doubts. "Suzanne researched this," says the wife in exasperation. As we're wondering who Suzanne is, the ad cuts to an image of the couple's kitchen telephone. "This listing is special, John," says the voice of their real estate agent over the speakerphone. "You guys can do this." The husband caves. "This is awesome," says the wife. We see a picture of the agent's Century 21 business card.
"The Debate": It's terrifying. The problem lies in the performances. That beleaguered husband, dough-faced and weary, seems highly sympathetic as he expresses a few doubts about this major life decision. Meanwhile, the wife (who looks like a more hostile Mary Louise Parker—though she lacks MLP's patented bone-dry delivery) just knits her eyebrows at the guy like he's unfathomably dense. Later, she jabs him with an accusatory "What?!"—her eyes wide and wild, her neck muscles flexed, her head twitching in disbelief at what a ninny her husband's turned out to be.
The capper comes when their real estate agent, who we discover has been listening in on what should be a private and delicate moment, takes sides with the wife and thereby crumbles the husband's defenses. Don't listen to her, John. Of course your agent wants you to buy a house you can't afford—she gets a bigger commission!
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It's really hard work. They have to unlock and open that door. Don't you think this is worth $15,000? I mean, anybody could fuck up and not use a lockbox right. It takes special skills. That, and operating a fax machine.
Yes, real estate agents are a bullshit profession that need to be eradicated from this country.
"Most people are blaming the agent" Well, yeah...buyers should've done due diligence. Then again, most people trusted realtors as the "experts" when they said "buy now or never" and pushed them into a toxic mort.
So, to encourage a wider distribution of the mushrooming supply of goods and services, advertising became a major industry in itself. Saving was condemned as hopelessly out of fashion and almost unpatriotic; it was every Americans duty to provide himself with as many wristwatches, electric floor scrubbers, Frigidaires, ultraviolet sun lamps, exercise machines, and canned peas as humanly possible.
Actual excerpt from The Year of the Great Crash 1929 by William Klingam Prepare America!
Here's another....."The advent of installment purchasing plans provided additional impetus to consumption; all one needed to buy a new washing machine or diamond necklace was a minimal down payment. As the decade progressed, credit terms became even easier, with payment extended over longer and longer periods.
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Yes, real estate agents are a bullshit profession that need to be eradicated from this country.
Poontang ain't worth 30 years of slavery guys. Wake the F up.
Actual excerpt from The Year of the Great Crash 1929 by William Klingam
Prepare America!
Sound familiar?
Fat boy was the only realistic and pragmatic one out of the bunch, but let his bitch walk all over him.