Comments on: Irish Times to Write Down Value of MyHome.ie?

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:48:40 +0000

Hi Boland

Would you care to declare if you have some reason for your bias? Like the fact that you’re posting from an IP one tick away from newmail1.myhome.ie?

I’ve no problem with employees having opinions or allegiances, but if your going to slag off your competitors at least have the balls to admit who you are.

We love myhome employees.

“We love ourselves” you mean?

Rgds
Richard

By: Boland

Boland — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:43:53 +0000

Myhome.ie is aer lingus and daft are ryanair. We love myhome employees. They rock and they are the best to deal with. The only time daft calls is when they need money! Myhome is a business for estate agengs and daft are a cheap unprofessional service provider. I could not imagine the Times or even the Independent purchasing daft. Maybe the News of the world.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:33:24 +0000

Best of all – since the purchase I’ve seen no efforts to leverage the ireland.com brand or site. Seems like little or no integration at all. Which makes me think that they may have had no strategy at all when they bought it.

Of course the previous owners laughed all the way to the bank…

Rgds
Richard

By: Mark Stanley

Mark Stanley — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:20:03 +0000

My bet is that was roughly around 95% too high of a price to pay for myhome It’s comical that you consider what they do to promote it – what must be massively expensive primetime radio slots on Newstalk with that bloke from Bachelors Walk …. thousands of houses, one poxy droning d4 accent.

Combined with that, the usability of the site is atrocious, their email alerts include duplicates (rock hard to fix that I’m sure), and they never add any new features.

Bad buy.