SDR it has never been my experience that more than 10% of the so called offers were actually phoney. I always ask if the offer is verbal, has it been answered, countered ect. Usually I can get a frank answer on everything but the alleged amount of the offer. Usually most houses don’t have offers on them and no offers are claimed to exist. What gives here? Why is Raptorduck seeing so much of this? Are you used to having agents lie to you all the time about offers?

Disclaimer:
Yes I know many RE types hype constantly.This particular issue of pretend offers has not come up so regularly in my experience.