Comments on: Job Vacancy – Realestate.com.au CEO

By: snoop

snoop — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:53:48 +0000

third party ads enhance the consumer experience
Surely you jest Totally!

Inciteful comments Robert.
From what I hear you are on the money

By: i know who you are

i know who you are — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:26:33 +0000

well, I hope that News actually conducts a good audit on their IT processes and structure. In the present state, they (IT) could dismiss 35 out of 50 projects per year wanting to achieve perfection (at cost of the business).

Let’s hope a new structure kicks in and some bottlenecks get removed (for good) up there.

-this might retain some good staff up in level 3

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:48:55 +0000

Get you’re money out of REA if you have shares.
I know how this works in Australia and REA is what it is because of one man…Baker, there’s no substantial market out of Australia so the AU market is where the $’s are and they just sacked the guy that knows this market better then anyone else.

They think they know real estate better than Baker ??? just watch the decline.

Fools…………

By: totally

totally — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:27:22 +0000

“the shareholders of REA want a bigger piece of the average commission on every property sale in this country there is no doubt about this”

Incorrect – they want a large piece of our marketing budget.

Robert – get a clue…3rd Party ads average a click rate of less than 1%..how can that be so bad for us?

The truth is they enhance the user experience and keep people coming back and online longer

By: Robert Simeon

Robert Simeon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:43:33 +0000

Thanks Adam – you answered my question LOL

By: adam

adam — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:07:55 +0000

Well when you have monkeys around, you need to throw peanuts to them Robert

By: Robert Simeon

Robert Simeon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:36:46 +0000

Great to see the peanut gallery alive and well here

By: SVW

SVW — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:06:07 +0000

this is my first comment on this forum i have been tempted several times in the past to respond to comments however this move of simon bakers has lead me to make a comment ,i enjoy a role in the industry that has me at the coalface with real estate agents up and down the eastern seaboard of which the majority of them have a massive dislike for realestate.com and are only a subscriber to it because they can’t afford not to be at this stage , however i must say the only face of REA that gave most of these people some comfort was Simon ,he has fended off the question so many times with regards their future commercial model , the shareholders of REA want a bigger piece of the average commission on every property sale in this country there is no doubt about this ,for example it now costs you per property to put holiday lettings on REA $500 per property actually ,this is the sign of what is to come ,my belief is that Simon has said it so many times that it is not in REA plans to set up their own Real Estae shopfronts they won’t change their existing model too much etc etc , i have to say the board of REA don’t support that reasurrance and one can only assume that Simon and the other directors could not co exist any longer , this is like Sonny Bill Williams leaving the bulldogs in the manner he has ,it heralds a change of commercial thinking from REA that can not be good for real estate agents in this country .

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:48:19 +0000

Or is it ‘telephone bar’ in Bangkok?

By: chris

chris — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:33:26 +0000

SAJ, you must understand that Robert S represents the ‘lunatic fringe’ of the industry.

Too much time in the Thailand sun me thinks…