生活英语|phantom offer 幽灵出价

Phantom^{1 offer is a nonexistent offer to purchase a house, used to coerce2 people making real offers into raising their prices.}

幽灵出价指的是购房时并没有的买方出价，目的是迫使大家做出真实出价，抬高房价。

Your below-asking-price offer has been accepted, the property you are buying is off the market, and its all steam ahead towards completion. Then the next week, the Estate Agent calls to say that someone who viewed the property previously^{3 has put in an offer a few thousand pounds above yours.}

你刚开始的出价低于卖方的要价，卖方也同意了。你要买的这套房下架，你就要买成了。紧接着，下一周，房地产中介就给你打电话，说之前看过房的某位顾客出价比你多了数千英镑。