Comments on: Comcast Redefines Home Shopping Network

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:24:57 +0000

I don’t think this can sell a home. In the 10-second spot, it is impossible to see enough to know if it is anything interesting to me. And the very limited search engine doesn’t allow me to focus into the specific area I want. I have to sit through a lot of places I’m not interested in before I get to anything I might be interested in–and then I don’t see enough to know if I want it. Mostly it just seems like an ego-stroke for the seller and realtor.

By: real estate

real estate — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:49:44 +0000

lol at the bombastic joke – haven’t heard that in years. Good question over whether consumers will shop for homes through that channel. I operate in the Canadian market and I’m divided ove that.

By: Shopping Channel

Shopping Channel — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:02:03 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:32:32 +0000

This is just marketers trying to get advertising dollars. This won’t help more than an open house. I could almost see car listings working but with rmls.com, realtor.com and all of the agents sites, why bother flipping through there.

It won’t be as fast a surfing the internet. The real estate industry does not lack marketers telling us how we are essentially idiots if we don’t use their product or service.

Right now I can list a home for a special price on Realtor.com. I can list it for free on zillow.com. I can create a blog with a unique url for a small fee.

And there a many other places, free and for a fee, that I can list a house. In the end the rmls is the best place for all realtor listings. Other than that it is a crap shoot to find FSBO’s.

But many agents will pay for this and other services to impress the seller even though it might work .5% of the time, just like an open house.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:43 +0000

Comcast also does pet adoption, car sales, dates (!), etc. through this method. I haven’t tried the real estate feature yet but the previous methods mentioned all came across a bit hokey.