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No doubt the 'deposits' were around £50 and anyone who genuinely was interested in buying a flat spoke to a proper grown up afterwards. Or maybe even beforehand.
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I asked myself the same question and came to the conclusion that this week's task was conducted in a virtual property world, where all the customers were stooges laid on by Lord Sugar specifically to test the candidates.
Any commission thus earned would of course have been theoretical, but the task was real enough for the candidates to be judged on their performance. The whole idea of ringing around was completely false as if you got that kind of money to spend surly they work during the day. |
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No doubt the 'deposits' were around £50 and anyone who genuinely was interested in buying a flat spoke to a proper grown up afterwards. Or maybe even beforehand.
I think they had an opt out clause probably going throught it properly the next day. this is why I think they were criticised so much as even with the safety net they could not secure every sale. |
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I asked myself the same question and came to the conclusion that this week's task was conducted in a virtual property world, where all the customers were stooges laid on by Lord Sugar specifically to test the candidates.
Any commission thus earned would of course have been theoretical, but the task was real enough for the candidates to be judged on their performance. This task just screamed set up to me. |
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The real question is why people would pay that sort of silly money to live in a dump like London.
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The real question is why people would pay that sort of silly money to live in a dump like London.
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Sounds unlikely, but they're millionaires, god knows...
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What terrified me last night was knowing they were all likely real people and Yes people do just turn up and buy houses like that. Its another world
So much nicer areas. |
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They seemed like "real people" to me, there are some adverts when they pretend to interview real people to endorse products and you spot the actors straight away - they cant help hamming their part up by exagerrating facial expressions and the level of enthusiasm in their voices.
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The real question is why people would pay that sort of silly money to live in a dump like London.
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The real question is why people would pay that sort of silly money to live in a dump like London.
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The stars of the episode were those two Arab guys? Coming out in the Rolls Royce, that style and flair. This is how the candidates should aspire to be like
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I would imagine the sales were real, but everyone buying property would not want to be filmed, so actors were used in a reconstruction.
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Yesterday, I spoke to a couple who took part in this episode. They'd been invited to Lewisham, where they'd registered an interest.
They were frustrated by long delays caused by Gary and Charleine insisting on taking buyers to view what was basically a building site rather than going straight to the show flat. The candidates even suggested that only one half of each couple need view, as they did not have enough hard hats for all. No doubt more of this would have been shown if either Gary or Charleine had been fired. Sales were real, but with a 48-hour cooling off period. |
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Yesterday, I spoke to a couple who took part in this episode. They'd been invited to Lewisham, where they'd registered an interest.
They were frustrated by long delays caused by Gary and Charleine insisting on taking buyers to view what was basically a building site rather than going straight to the show flat. The candidates even suggested that only one half of each couple need view, as they did not have enough hard hats for all. No doubt more of this would have been shown if either Gary or Charleine had been fired. Sales were real, but with a 48-hour cooling off period.
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