Neil, make sure the agent provides you written confirmation that they put your offer forward to the vendor. Otherwise they could be just yanking your chain.
Remember not all buyers have the ability to understand the market as you do and will gladly fork over the asking price.
1. The EA has no obligation to OP to provide written confirmation...........
2. Most vendors and EA's have grasped that serious purchasers are in short supply - I just don't buy the paranoid "they are all liars, cheats and eejits" crap who are not passing on offers.
3. If I was selling my house, I would sell it to the highest bidder. I would not engage in a competition as to who I though understood the market best. Strange but true.
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MF1, couldnt agree more. Spoofers is very apt.