What has made you Angry Today???????

[Cuppa]

Not happy, broke a molar today, didn’t even know I’d done it ’til I felt a big chunk of tooth missing with my tongue. Have got a dentist appointment tomorrow & am crapping myself.
I really don’t do dentists well at all.
Dunno if it can be repaired or if it’ll have to come out.
Neither is a good option. A repair could cost big time but is preferable to removal as removal carries a risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw ’cos of the bisphosphonate medication I take for osteoporosis. Don’t even wanna think about that, it’d be a life changing nightmare scenario. Only good thing is there is no pain at the moment.

[Hodge]

Not good Cuppa.
I have a weak bone/jaw structure and most dentists do not want to know me. And I don't want to know them! As I absolutely detest a dentists chair.
Hopefully it turns out ok. The fact it's not hurting means it isn't down to the nerve and it hopefully can be saved.

[DX grunt]

They may do either a ro0t canal or cap it.

I'm book in for 2 caps before Xmas!

[Cuppa]

Phew! Just back home from the dentist. I will never look forward to going to a dentist, but todays experience is probably the best I’ve ever had with one. Dr Tam Nguyen was just so gentle, & reassuring without making a big deal of it. No pain at all (only the fear of pain in my head). Even the injection he said might sting didn’t! One look at my broken tooth & he declared that despite being a big breakage I was very lucky, & although the remainder of the tooth was also fractured it was repairable with a ‘composite’ filling - which he used to repair & build up the tooth into a new tooth shape after shaving a couple of mm off the remnant tooth. All up $500.... which although a whack to the wallet I could’ve done without, was way less than I’d feared. The technology was impressive too, the X-ray image (to see how close the nerve was) appeared on the screen next to me within seconds of it being taken, & at the end, on the same screen he showed me a side by side photo of how the tooth looked before & after. I now have what looks, to all intents & purposes, a new tooth.

[TPC]

Phew! Just back home from the dentist. I will never look forward to going to a dentist, but todays experience is probably the best I’ve ever had with one. Dr Tam Nguyen was just so gentle, & reassuring without making a big deal of it. No pain at all (only the fear of pain in my head). Even the injection he said might sting didn’t! One look at my broken tooth & he declared that despite being a big breakage I was very lucky, & although the remainder of the tooth was also fractured it was repairable with a ‘composite’ filling - which he used to repair & build up the tooth into a new tooth shape after shaving a couple of mm off the remnant tooth. All up $500.... which although a whack to the wallet I could’ve done without, was way less than I’d feared. The technology was impressive too, the X-ray image (to see how close the nerve was) appeared on the screen next to me within seconds of it being taken, & at the end, on the same screen he showed me a side by side photo of how the tooth looked before & after. I now have what looks, to all intents & purposes, a new tooth.

I had the same thing done a few years ago after loosing half a tooth eating pork crackling at Christmas dinner.
I was the same, worrying about how involved the repair was going to be and had to wait a few days for the dentist to open and had a simple fix and the repair is still going strong.

[mudski]

Once again excitement is met with pure frustration. Found another place, this time we offered 35k over their top asking price and was still outdone by 17K! WTF!

[Cuppa]

Once again excitement is met with pure frustration. Found another place, this time we offered 35k over their top asking price and was still outdone by 17K! WTF!

What is this seemingly current practice of people offering OVER THE ASKING PRICE??? Appears that ‘gazumping’ has been adopted as the default process. Is the market really so much a sellers market or is this a practice being manipulated by real estate agents (i.e. advertising low asking prices that they have no expectation of accepting just to suck people in)?

[mudski]

What is this seemingly current practice of people offering OVER THE ASKING PRICE??? Appears that ‘gazumping’ has been adopted as the default process. Is the market really so much a sellers market or is this a practice being manipulated by real estate agents (i.e. advertising low asking prices that they have no expectation of accepting just to suck people in)?

I think its the real estate agents way around the "under quoting" saga they all got tied up in a while back, and some copped big fines for this.
I understand the agent has to do what it takes to get top dollar for the seller. The seller is paying them after all. But atleast make it a silent auction then. Where all parties have more than one chance to put their offers in. Where now, the first person to offer is the only one who gets a second chance.. And both times we were outdone, the final price was an odd number. $xx2,00 and $xx7,000. So even though they are not supposed to know our offer, I think they might have been given an idea.
We will have to change strategies I think and just jump in and try to be first up with an offer.

Its funny though, you have a limit to spend. But you always seem to find the "perfect" property which is just out of your reach.

Upwards and onwards, or which ever way it is.

[Cuppa]

I think its the real estate agents way around the "under quoting" saga they all got tied up in a while back, and some copped big fines for this.
I understand the agent has to do what it takes to get top dollar for the seller. The seller is paying them after all. But atleast make it a silent auction then. Where all parties have more than one chance to put their offers in. Where now, the first person to offer is the only one who gets a second chance.

Yep. If it’s a silent auction, morally it should be made clear to all participants, & with clear ‘rules’. i.e. with all bidders able to increase their bid up to a declared time for the end of the auction. It sounds like the auction is currently designed to encourage folk to overbid, rather than to establish ‘market value’. Not a good look. Personally I would be telling agents I wouldn’t play that game, but I guess if they are all colluding with the same tactics in the area you want to buy you don’t have a choice. It’s not right though.

[mudski]

Yep. If it’s a silent auction, morally it should be made clear to all participants, & with clear ‘rules’. i.e. with all bidders able to increase their bid up to a declared time for the end of the auction. It sounds like the auction is currently designed to encourage folk to overbid, rather than to establish ‘market value’. Not a good look. Personally I would be telling agents I wouldn’t play that game, but I guess if they are all colluding with the same tactics in the area you want to buy you don’t have a choice. It’s not right though.

If I tell the agents I'm not playing their game, a Dutch Auction, they will just show me the door.
Silent or open auctions I am all for. It all ends on what someone is prepared to pay in the end. Sometimes its works in the buyers favour, as they have won the auction at a lesser price than what they were willing to pay because the lack of competition, it can work in the sellers favour, two buyers simply outbidding each other fueled by emotional attachemnt to the house, or, in my case, it worked in both our and the sellers favour. We got more than expected and the buyer paid less than expected (we assume going by his bidding tactics).