There was an
article in the newspaper Scotland On Sunday (The Scotsman) a couple of weeks back titled "£30 Title to Lord it over Glencoe". One of the comments has caught my attention, I thought it quite amusing, to the point, and worth repeating here.
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 11:06 AM
I might have agreed that it is just a bit of fun had Highland
Titles not misdescribed what is on offer. Here's how I see it. If I saw a
fully restored vintage Rolls Royce for sale and went to view it only to
find it was actually a rusty old Ford Escort that had Rolls Royce
badges stuck on it and the restoration work was a cardboard and body
filler job and a bad re-spray, I'd fail to see the fun side of it. An
explanation by the seller that it was just a bit of fun, would not
really make me feel any better about wasting my time going to see it.
That's what Highland Titles have done, picked a vintage Rolls Royce
location, Glencoe, and stuck Glencoe badges on their rusty old Ford
Escort location by calling it Glencoe Wood. When I buy a car I want to
view it personally before parting with cash, when folks in Australia,
USA, or wherever buy a plot of land from Highland Titles they don't have
an opportunity to view before buying, they take it on trust that the
item is as described. Now people are finding out that what is on offer
is not as described they are quite rightly getting upset about it, their
trust had been betrayed. Highland Titles have misdescribed the product,
have been caught out in the lie that the land they sell was actually in
Glencoe, and people are complaning about the deception, simple, and in
my opinion quite understandable.
Quite well put I thought!
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