What is Sticker-Flicker?
Sticker-Flicker is a term coined by Arit in last weekends Friday free-for-all post to describe a real estate sales sign that has a ‘sold’ sticker applied, removed, and then applied again in any number of cycles. This is a phenomena I’ve increasingly noticed myself lately in front of apartments, townhomes and houses around town.
There are a number of theories about the root cause of Sticker-Flicker ranging from a conspiracy to make it appear more sales are taking place to overzealous realtors applying the sold sticker upon recieving an offer, only to see the deal fall through.
Personally I believe its likely the latter. I have very little confidence in the organizational skills of people when it comes to conspiracy and I don’t really see the point anyways. The fact remains that we have over 20,000 places for sale in Greater Vancouver right now, the sellers market is over. Would Sticker-Flicker really motivate someone to buy?
But maybe there’s something I’m missing. What do you think- Have you noticed this phenomena? What causes Sticker-Flicker?
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Sold sign on this place http://tinyurl.com/553e6p for awhile. The web page was last updated Jul 3rd so I guess it has been there for 1 month.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
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Not to mention protection, the oldest and best reason to pay taxes. If we lived without taxes (ie in a state of anarchy) any warlord could come and take your things, your family, your life at a whim. People who whine about taxes as much as islander are just too stupid to consider the alternatives.
But then islander's already proven his lack of intelligence by proposing that, if no services were offered to homeless people, they'd all just go away.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
"People pay, what, a few thousand bucks once every 5-25 years to sell their biggest asset. But they pay tens of thousands of dollars every year to the government. In the former instance, they have a choice to avoid realtor fees. In the latter instance, if they choose to avoid taxes"
uh, we get health care and fire services and library services and road maintenance and police in return for the taxes. what do you offer?