Yea, it’s fucked. As a buyer, I had an agent for a while, thinking that since the same commission is coming out from the seller’s side anyway, it can’t hurt. Wrong. I kept having my offers turned down without any good reasons, getting slow walked on offers that were for the seller’s full asking price, etc, until I dropped the buyer’s agent and just went directly to the seller’s agent and it was amazing how fast the offer was accepted.