Foxtons are offering to help me fill the site with content

[editor]

Here's a wonderful offer. Perhaps you lot could help me with my reply?

Hey,

I hope you’re well?

I am currently working alongside Foxtons Estate Agents in order so share sponsored content, area guides and also, getting them some coverage on some great London websites and blogs.

I was wondering if you were working on anything at the moment that perhaps Foxtons could help with? They have numerous home and district experts who would be able to comment on anything in the industry right now.

Or, if preferred, would there be room on your blog to sharing some sponsored content? Preferably district guides. I know the team are really keen to start doing more of this.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

 

[cupid_stunt]

Surely just two words, and second being 'off'?

 

[Supine]

Any gentrification tips would be useful

 

[JimW]

Don't be so quick to dismiss it, would save me posting to fill the ether and that would go down well.

 

[chilango]

A guide to empty properties in London?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Get them to sponsor the politics forum - it'd give more things for people to argue about.

 

[editor]

Perhaps they missed my earlier articles on them?

Brixton’s most hated business? Foxtons finds itself in need of another police guard
Brixton Foxtons gets a visit from Yuppies Out
Reclaim Brixton: Foxtons estate agents in Brixton is targeted again
Brixton Foxtons is boarded up once again ahead of the Brixton Splash community carnival

So what’s wrong with Foxtons?
A lot. Here’s what we said about them earlier this year:

Seen by some as the personification of greed and gentrification, Foxtons were described by the Independent as the “estate agent that gives estate agents a bad name,” the Guardian decried their ‘dodgy’ business practices back in 2008, and in 2010 a finance site ran a feature called, “The evil way Foxtons ripped off Landlords.”

Last month, the Independent went as far as to describe the company as a “perfect metaphor for how society continues to change for the worse“, while a London business website ran the headline, “7 events that show Londoners love to hate Foxtons.”

More recently, the company is facing a potentially massive legal bill after a landlord launched an action over the extortionate fee he was charged by Foxtons over a simple light fitting repair.

 

[cybershot]

Ask them to do a search for themselves in here and to come back to you if they think it’s still a good idea.

 

[JimW]

New edition of the squatters' handbook

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ask them if they'd like to sponsor this hefty 67 page thread... Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road

 

[maomao]

I'd be happy for Foxtons to sponsor any of my posts on the subject of landlords and the rental market.

 

[N_igma]

Reply back saying you charge £1000 to view the site and there’s no guarantee you’ll get add space. If you do get add space you charge £2500 admin fees, £5000 security deposit and you charge £10,000 a month ‘rent’.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Reply back saying you charge £1000 to view the site and there’s no guarantee you’ll get add space. If you do get add space you charge £2500 admin fees, £5000 security deposit and you charge £10,000 a month ‘rent’.

Credit check, £250.

 

[Argonia]

Bill Hicks - if you work in advertising or marketing, kill yourself

 

[Proper Tidy]

Ask them if they want to sponsor the rope with which we'll hang them

 

[trabuquera]

Snub them, gently but oh-so-underminingly, by saying something along the lines of 'sorry, I just don't think your image is vibrant enough for my readership'...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Reply back saying you charge £1000 to view the site and there’s no guarantee you’ll get add space. If you do get add space you charge £2500 admin fees, £5000 security deposit and you charge £10,000 a month ‘rent’.

After taking their money be sure to phone back five minutes later to say you've accepted a better offer from another party, but that regrettably none of the fees they've paid are refundable.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I've changed my mind...

Perhaps they missed my earlier articles on them?

Brixton’s most hated business? Foxtons finds itself in need of another police guard
Brixton Foxtons gets a visit from Yuppies Out
Reclaim Brixton: Foxtons estate agents in Brixton is targeted again
Brixton Foxtons is boarded up once again ahead of the Brixton Splash community carnival

... send them those links, and for the lolz, ask them how much they would be prepared to pay to have those articles removed.

 

[Virtual Blue]

I would just waste their time...

 

[Gromit]

They have numerous home and district experts who would be able to comment on anything in the industry right now.

I'd love to hear their expert comment on the Buckingham Palace Restoration.

Would beige walls help the resale price?

 

[agricola]

Given the recent complaints from yourself about the Brixton forum, surely they would be the right people to sponsor it now?

 

[SpookyFrank]

... send them those links, and for the lolz, ask them how much they would be prepared to pay to have those articles removed.

Probably nothing. Their image as a cabal of ruthless bastards is money in the bank to them. Their strategy is to appeal to the sort of people who would happily shake hands with Mussolini if they thought he could get them a few extra quid for flipping their house.

 

[The39thStep]

Tbh Foxtons content would just be irrelevant London centric guff that us in the North don't need.

 

[hash tag]

Doctors should research their "market" a little better. If they had, they would surely know this place is not for them.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Oh that is priceless!

 

[Argonia]

Doctors?

 

[skyscraper101]

Perhaps you could legit suggest they sponsor the Lambeth Country Show again.

 

[nogojones]

I would just waste their time...

String them along as much as you can. Take their money if you can get away with it and cunt them off to the max.

If they didn't do their research, that's on them

 

[Gromit]

Doctors?

Predictive text i'm guessing. Not even phones like to have anything to do with Foxtons.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Perhaps they could clarify which is the preferred wall they'd like to be put against and shot?