Of late I have been running around the Philippines talking to a lot of the rural banks in the Philippines. You have to run around because their English is pretty useless, or maybe its the twang in my Australian accent. Anyway, they don't want to speak to me sometimes. You turn up at these branches for a list of foreclosed properties, and often you would think you are pulling teeth. This is just some of the responses I got today:
1. Sorry we can't show you properties today, we close to 1PM.
2. Would you like to buy a property, I can refer you to several. I'm an agent you know...No, I thought you were working for the bank. I didn't know it was a front for your dubious undertakings. Didn't you get my email..eh yeh, I responded yesterday. Nope, actually he didn't. But he did after I attended his office.
3. Sorry we are closed. Oh, but its 12 noon. Come back at 3PM. But you close at 3PM. I guess he would prefer I don't come back.
4. No, we don't have acquired assets. Yeh right. You just don't know what one is.
I have had some good feedback as well though, but for a sector such as banking I would have expected better service, and certainly not the gross unethical behvaviour of some bank managers. Anyway I will say more on this topic when I release my Philippines property report within the next week. I keep saying this but I keep finding/thinking of something else that just needs to be said. Up to 280 pages at present, so its a much bigger effort than my Japan study. This will be the first eBook that I will publish in hardcopy, though actually it makes much more sense as an eBook because I very much rely on hyperlinks for pertinent internet content such as links to online maps, the banks lists of foreclosed properties (for those that bother to publish them), and so many more. I will publish a table of contents here soon.
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Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
1. Sorry we can't show you properties today, we close to 1PM.
2. Would you like to buy a property, I can refer you to several. I'm an agent you know...No, I thought you were working for the bank. I didn't know it was a front for your dubious undertakings. Didn't you get my email..eh yeh, I responded yesterday. Nope, actually he didn't. But he did after I attended his office.
3. Sorry we are closed. Oh, but its 12 noon. Come back at 3PM. But you close at 3PM. I guess he would prefer I don't come back.
4. No, we don't have acquired assets. Yeh right. You just don't know what one is.
I have had some good feedback as well though, but for a sector such as banking I would have expected better service, and certainly not the gross unethical behvaviour of some bank managers. Anyway I will say more on this topic when I release my Philippines property report within the next week. I keep saying this but I keep finding/thinking of something else that just needs to be said. Up to 280 pages at present, so its a much bigger effort than my Japan study. This will be the first eBook that I will publish in hardcopy, though actually it makes much more sense as an eBook because I very much rely on hyperlinks for pertinent internet content such as links to online maps, the banks lists of foreclosed properties (for those that bother to publish them), and so many more. I will publish a table of contents here soon.
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Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
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