Hi, What price range are we talking? What was your asking price and what was the low ball offer? I'm curious if you listed your home at the price the agent suggested or did you list it at a price you thought it was worth? Did the agent send you regular reports as to what was selling in your subdivision? Did you receive CMA's? This is a slower than usual market but if a home is in a good location, has good appeal to buyers and is priced right, it will move--maybe taking a couple months more, but it should sell. How many times was your house shown in the first 30 days? Once the showings slowed down, did you and your agent put your heads together and try to figure out why the house wasn't selling? Was the low ball offer in line with what other homes in your area sold for in the last year? How long after the home was listed, did you receive the low ball offer? If you had 15 showings and no offers, perhaps your agent should have come to you and said the home is listed too high or feedback tells us this or that is wrong with the home. I tend to think if the home was shown 15 times, no matter who showed the home, it was possibly priced high and possibly had a few issues. I would sit down with the agent and work out something. Maybe the selling agent, the listing agent and you all three make a price adjustment. The agent is there to protect you the seller. Let the agent deal with the buyer, i.e., making sure they are pre-approved by legitimate mortgage lender who will make closing, make sure the agent assists you with inspections, etc., etc. If you still want to get out of paying the agent for his/her efforts, you might also consider calling the agent and at least offering to pay for those few ads s/he ran. Ads are expensive. MLS is expensive. Who paid for the photos that were ran in MLS? Was there a Virtual Tour completed? If so, who paid for that? If you were unhappy with your agent, did you go to the agent and ask to be released from your contract at any point? S/he probably would have released you if you were unhappy. I would not even consider circumventing the agent's efforts. Right is right and wrong is wrong. KCF

I just re-read the OP and remembered this regarding calls by Realtors trying to list your FSBO home - If you are on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, Realtors are not supposed to call you unless they have a buyer interested in your home. If they do call you, they are subject to fines, which may take something to pursue, but just get their brokers' names and take it up with them, and then the local board if they don't or won't. That's an easy start. The one thing about Realtors is that they are all easy to find on the internet and their broker and local board, if they are legit, licensed, and actual Realtors or even Real Estate Agents. Brokers all have to have some sort of do-not-call procedure to prevent this from happening. You can also put a single sentence in your ads that states the fact that you are on the Do-Not-Call registry and that solicitation calls will be reported, that sort of thing. Not sure if you tried this, but it should be some relief from the onslaught of soliciting listings. Here is a link that might be useful: Article from Realtor magazine

I know that people aren't crazy about being followed, but it really is unsafe to not follow the buyers around. It's too easy for people to steal items, even prescriptions, go thru a desk for CC stmts, old hospital bills that list SSAN's, etc. They can also unlock windows so they can return later and break in. Or plant video cameras to spy on someone in their bedroom/bath. Or put tracking devices on computers to monitor keystrokes to get passwords to accts. For safety the sellers should have prospects enter rooms ahead of them so they can't block you in. Doors to house should be unlocked before they arrive so you can get out if you need to. Do not leave keys in deadbolts...too easy for someone to steal, or make a clay impression to replicate later. All prescriptions should be stored somewhere besides bathroom/dresser drawer (thieves will grab prescriptions and check them later. They toss useless ones, but it still costs you money to replace.). Remove anything with a child's name/picture on it...you don't want a predator knowing your child's name (or knowing what they look like). It would be too easy for someone to say "Hey Susie...your mom sent me to pick you up." to your child walking home/playing outside, and take them. Put all dogs away from where people are looking. Tell everyone the dogs are not good with strangers. Don't tell them the dog's name...again, so they won't break in and call dog by name, so it won't alert. Do not leave any paperwork that might have your SSAN, birthdate, or acct numbers anywhere. That means not inside a file cabinet that is unlocked, or in desk drawers where someone can open the drawer and flip thru and grab. Shut down computers before showing home, so they don't open browsers and go into your password recovery/storage. Don't have extra keys/garage remotes in a kitchen drawer/anyplace accessible. Many problems are lessened if you stay near people. Letting strangers into your house while you stay downstairs/out back is very risky. After showings (or even open houses, whether by owner or listed with agent), go check every window and door (even side doors into garage) to make sure they are locked. it's too easy for someone to unlock a window, and return later to break in. If you must show a home alone, call someone you trust before the showing and give them the name and ph number of prospect. Tell them you will call them when people arrive, and give them the lic plate number, and that you will call (not text...too easy for someone else to text saying they are you) them 20 min later. Ck in with that person after 20 min. keep your cell phone on you with a fully charged battery. Keep your car keys on you, and have car out of garage. (You don't want someone kidnapping you by putting you in your car trunk in garage then driving off. You do want to be able to jump in your car and get away if needed.) Don't wear any jewelry that even LOOKS expensive. Don't have a visible safe in the house. Store guns somewhere that people wouldn't see/find them (not in a nightstand/top of closet shelf/gun cabinet...). Remove the temptation to have people want to rob you. Guns are high value.

I think the issue here is that Zillow has a 'contact agent' field which rather disingenuously does not make it clear that the agent isn't the listing agent. Agents pay Zillow to have their profile posted - it's a lead generation device. In this case the agent did nothing to bring the home to the potential buyer - they were the ones who found it and mistakenly assumed they were contacting the listing agent. Perhaps it was unclear that this was an FSBO - the FSBO's I've seen on Zillow have been clearly labeled as such and include specific contact info for the seller. That said, now that they have already seen the home with the agent, and that their is a clear trail showing communication between seller and the agent, I don't think you can cut her out - perhaps legally you could as no docs were signed - I'm not sure of this (and bad on her for not having her clients sign something). But as greg_2015 points out - now that the potential buyers know that you would sell the house for X-3%, they aren't going to pay more. Nor should they - as he rightly points out, and I have experienced as a FSBOer in the past, when an unrepresented buyer engages an FSBO you end up splitting the commission savings (and hopefully using a portion of that for experienced lawyers for both sides).