An estate agent who posted an April Fool joke on Facebook has been forced to apologise.
Tiger Property Partners in Didsbury said that Manchester Cathedral was going to be turned into 15 luxury flats and that the agent was now taking deposits.
Some 100 horrified people rang the Cathedral to find out if it was true.
Others enthusiastically rang the agent to ask how much money they needed to put down.
The joke was apparently the work of a public relations freelance.
Oh dear.
Eye’s own April Fool only seemed to convince one person rather fleetingly that it was true.
However, we might find it rather hard to put on our straight face when next reporting about crowdfunding.
Comments (3)
The word gullible was removed from online dictionaries in 2012.
There is not a chance that I would have apologised for that, if people are gullible enough to fall for an April Fools joke then that’s on them. Nobody got hurt – apart from their feelings apparently – so why should the agent apologise?; or is it now offensive to the public to find that agents have a sense of humour too?
Just out of interest GPL, how much did the luxury flat cost?