EasyRoommate UK Reviews

Snoopjet's reply to Minafriere's Comment

Written on: 09/12/2012

Ever heard of thinking outside the box? Instead of just rolling over and thinking that such behaviour is normal and out of your control, perhaps you should have contacted the paper in question to inform them of what happened to you. I am sure they would have been grateful to you for your feedback and, you never know, it could have led them to devising ways of preventing repeat scenarios by, if nothing else, providing a warning system to landlords who use them for advertising purposes.
As for advertising websites such as Easyroommate that are increasingly growing, they cannot be in the business for the love of it so why should they not be held responsible for allowing maniacs, that they would be in the know about if they bothered to vet them first, to use them for money-making purposes? All they are doing is acting as an introductory tool for users and then using their feedback which, to all intents and purposes, amounts to people such as my boyfriend, doing the donkey work while they sit back and reap the benefits.
In view of this I do not see anything wrong in their being held accountable when things go wrong. Neither do I consider their blocking from further use of their website, the vermin in the guise of a landlady, in this instance, sufficient action on their part, particularly when bearing in mind the nightmare year my boyfriend and I had as a direct result of her disgusting behaviour.
You apparently have issues in our not only progressing the matter as far as we did, but also in our anticipating that we would at least get the amount of the bond back, which we probably would have been successful with if we had not also had the bad luck of being allocated a district judge who did not know right from wrong, and who considered it justifiable that the landlady be given only a verbal wrist-smacking for what she had done before allowing her to get away scot-free to terrorise her next victim.
Although it eventually went beyond our wanting the amount of the bond back and became more a matter of principle to us to try and prevent others from suffering the way that we did at the hands of the sorry excuse for a human being in question, perhaps you are so wealthy that it would not even cross your mind to even try and seek compensation for your losses. Not everyone is so fortunate to be in that position so you should consider yourself lucky to not have to chase what may be rightfully yours.
We unfortunately had to learn our lessons regarding excluded occupancy “rights” the hard way with the ready and willing help of a corrupt “legal” system. To now have someone as insensitive and unfeeling, as you appear to be, crawl out of the woodwork and rub salt into wounds that are still raw is disgusting and totally unforgiveable. What must you have for a heart?
Before making such cruel remarks you should have placed yourself in the position of a person who has worked a 12-hour nightshift during which the majority of the time is spent on your feet, and on returning to get some well-earned rest, you are confronted with the rantings and ravings of a psycho who was hell-bent on throwing you out and allowing you a generous ten minutes to do so. To then seek justice and find out that the law is on the side of the perpetrator in question was just the icing on the cake of a situation that I would not wish on anyone.
You have not elaborated on the reasons that your tenant “had to move out”, but as I do not know you personally I cannot comment further on this issue.