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Re:Zillow faces lawsuit over ‘Zestimate’ tool that calculate... by mywittyname on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:36PM (#14311946)
It's still a price anchor.

If an engineer at Zillow manipulated the Zestimate on a home they were trying to buy or sell, would they succeed in driving the price of the home in the desired direction? I think so.

Clearly real estate agents have the same feeling or they wouldn't be suing.

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Re:Zillow faces lawsuit over ‘Zestimate’ tool that calculate... by rejschaap on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:11PM (#14312194)
Mostly because they want to do the manipulating of estimates themselves.
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