Old people don’t use the internet?

That’s a strange comment from the estate agent! Plenty of older people, like you and your husband, are online all the time—especially on sites like Rightmove. Maybe it’s worth getting a second opinion or talking about better ways to market the house to everyone, no matter their age.

Change the Estate Agent.
Like many on here I suspect I was computer literate until 2017 when I retired to a reasonably high? administrative level( email, outlook, word, excel spreadsheets, online "groups"; telecons; videocons etc) simply because I had no choice because my workplace demanded it.
I have forgotten some but not all of it.
We all bank online these days don't we ? and text ; and email.
You should as a parting gift summarise these posts and let Mr Lazy and possibly Mr Incompetent have a look-see.

Steve Jobs was born in 1955. As was Bill Gates.

I say no more

Yeah, we are so doddery!!!!! What a stupid thing to say.

Chestnut

Some estate agents are unbelievable poor. Last time I purchased I really needed the room sizes and they hadn't even bothered to go and measure up and post the room plan! It was like trying to get blood out of a stone to get information from them.

Never mind asking about ‘minor details’ like the length of a lease!
‘Ooh, I don’t know, I’ll have to check…’.

Happened to me several times! TBH I wouldn’t swear that they even knew what a lease was!
I know this doesn’t apply to all EAs, some are very professional, but there are more than enough of the clueless type.

ferry23

Steve Jobs was born in 1955. As was Bill Gates.

I say no more

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Quite !!!!!!!

winterwhite

Well if we use GN of course we use the internet. We're self-selecting. Plenty of people wouldn't expect to use it for house buying. Nothing odd about that. We needn't bite people's heads off.

Innit so? We're on the internet

However, I'd not dream to buy a home on the internet. I'd have a look with the EA help person or her assistant for myself.

Everyone answering here obviously uses the internet. So we are not getting a true idea of how many people do not use the internet.

Jackiest

Everyone answering here obviously uses the internet. So we are not getting a true idea of how many people do not use the internet.

And I guess the moral of that is don't ask on the internet if people use the internet.

How very rude and ridiculously ageist and untrue.

I’d have given him a “how very dare you” lecture and shown him Gransnet, then “sacked” him and found someone who could market my home properly and give me accurate feedback!

I'm 36. I grew up in poor environment and in poor family. My first internet i got in 2010; using simple buttonphone.
What is interesting, i prefer button phone even today)
Computer i got in my 23 years, in 2012...
Older people use internet too, i think. Just they are more conservative (i feel it about myself since my 30 years, even earlier - i always was old-fashioned)

This thread is five years old !

I'm nearly 80 now and started using computers when I was 20 as a vacation student at Culham Laboratory. Never been without.