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Erica Ramus
September 22, 2010 at 7:42 pm
It seems to me that Trulia is being left in the dust here lately, which is a shame. I find Trulia to be much easier to navigate, and in polling my buyers it seems they like it better than Zillow. However, Zillow is the one partnering with mint.com, move.com and seems to be making more/better relationships.
What is Trulia doing to catch up or innovate?
I am rooting for Trulia here… Zillow has never impressed me.
Erica Ramus
September 22, 2010 at 9:29 pm
PS– I do use mint.com to organize my finances and them using Zestimates just brings mint.com DOWN in my eyes. Do they not realize how inaccurate these are? Why do they need this partnership?
Jim Duncan
September 22, 2010 at 10:19 pm
I’m curious what, if any, of my financial data from mint that Zillow gets. Clearly Z got my address … what else? Mint’s privacy policy hasn’t been updated since early this year, so that’s no help.
Ken Montville
September 23, 2010 at 7:37 am
I’m with Jim Duncan on this one. I don’t use Mint or other online financial tracking software/apps because I really don’t want to make it any easier for the entire world to know my finances.
I’m under no illusion that there is very little, if any, online privacy but I try not to make it too easy. That may be an illusion in and of itself.
Re: the partnership. Zillow’s Zestimate has been its marketing hook from Day 1. It’s inaccurate, at best, and doesn’t take into account either the condition of the individual house or the current market conditions of the neighborhood/area. However, consumers love it. Who wouldn’t? Unfortunately, for Mint’s customers, it will throw off its projections and net worth formulas since it will be using bad data.
Garbage in, Garbage out.