The survey of more than 200 recent buyers found many lamented being "thanked" for their business.Dodgy gifts included expired shortbread, old chocolate biscuits and merchandise from wooden salt and pepper grinders with a corporate logo to agency-labelled wine.In one instance, a buyer received a "one-year home warranty"' from their agent, according to the survey by gift website operator Elizabeth Ball.Ms Ball said most people did not get a gift, despite their purchase returning a large commission for the agent.
Of those who did, about 32 per cent received wine, 17 per cent a food hamper, and 12 per cent were given merchandise from their agent's firm."Some of the best thank-you gifts included a picture of the house, framed and dated with (the buyer's) names inscribed on a plaque, a chocolate house with hand-made chocolates, a stainless steel kitchen pasta drainer filled with food and a bottle of wine, tea towel and wooden spoon," Ms Ball said.
One owner was given a lemon tree to complement the fruit trees at their new property.Gifts are widely available and you will easily be able to find some that you care for.Trish Brimelow, from Forrest Hill in Victoria, is among those to receive a gift that left her wondering why it had been given at all."It was a little stand alone clock, but it actually didn't work," she said."And there was nowhere to open the back up and put more batteries in, so we couldn't get it to work.
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