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fee and its refund process and will provide certainty and recourse to the treatment of booking fee . If the enforcer are unable to effectively prohibit collection of ‘ booking fees ’ by housing developers , we might as well outdo them and thereby possibly gain an advantage .
There ’ s an old Scottish proverb : ‘ Better bend than break ’ carries no connotation of surrender . It is used to indicate that the way to take over the opposition ’ s strength is to adopt their positions and platform .
PS : Its ’ merely a food for thought and more discussion and feedbacks need to be obtained .
Datuk Chang Kim Loong is the Secretary- General of the National House Buyers Association ( HBA ) ( www . hba . org . my ) a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization manned by volunteers . Their link : www . hba . org . my
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