Home sales end in chaos as buyers feel cheated
By Feng Jianmin |
January 10, 2011, Monday
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FIGHTS broke out when apartments went on sale in Hangzhou City on Saturday.
One potential buyer was taken to hospital, while fences were broken, tables overturned, vases smashed and cushions thrown into a pond, the Youth Times reported yesterday.
Around a thousand people had gathered in the Zhejiang Province capital after they had been promised by the developer, China Dandy Holdings, that the apartments would be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Customers had been required to collect a number to ensure their place in the queue. But they soon complained of unfairness when they were in the queue waiting for sales to start at 10am.
"The developer said they would notify customers on January 6 of when they were starting to release queue numbers, but we found that some people already knew about it on January 5 and came in advance for the number," a woman surnamed Ma said.
Others accused the developers of arranging for some people to skip places in the queue. "After the first 50 customers were taken away by a bus, another 40 cut in," a woman surnamed Wang said. "If things like this go on, when will be our turn?"
There was more confusion, the report said, when people found that early queue numbers were being sold to the highest bidder.
Customers demanded that the sales should start all over again, and the developer offered to sell additional apartments as compensation. But the discussions were interrupted by angry customers and fights broke out.
The project was being sold at prices cheaper than nearby houses, local media said.
One potential buyer was taken to hospital, while fences were broken, tables overturned, vases smashed and cushions thrown into a pond, the Youth Times reported yesterday.
Around a thousand people had gathered in the Zhejiang Province capital after they had been promised by the developer, China Dandy Holdings, that the apartments would be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Customers had been required to collect a number to ensure their place in the queue. But they soon complained of unfairness when they were in the queue waiting for sales to start at 10am.
"The developer said they would notify customers on January 6 of when they were starting to release queue numbers, but we found that some people already knew about it on January 5 and came in advance for the number," a woman surnamed Ma said.
Others accused the developers of arranging for some people to skip places in the queue. "After the first 50 customers were taken away by a bus, another 40 cut in," a woman surnamed Wang said. "If things like this go on, when will be our turn?"
There was more confusion, the report said, when people found that early queue numbers were being sold to the highest bidder.
Customers demanded that the sales should start all over again, and the developer offered to sell additional apartments as compensation. But the discussions were interrupted by angry customers and fights broke out.
The project was being sold at prices cheaper than nearby houses, local media said.
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