https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/01/31/sponsored-why-would-a-sellers-agent-believe-they-are-owed-a-second-brokerage-fee/

Q: Hi: I’m writing about your January 24, 2021, column in the Bay Area News Group’s The Mercury News: “Sellers make a deal and move out of state, then agent calls asking for help with brokerage fee.”

In the column, the seller’s agent claimed that he was entitled to the brokerage fee paid to the buyer’s agent. For some reason, because the first-time homebuyers responded to his advertisement about his seller’s home and he showed the house twice, he’s owed an additional brokerage fee. In other words, the seller’s agent is already receiving a brokerage fee for his actions to promote a favorable outcome for his sellers. So why would he think he earned a second brokerage fee in the course of his duties and especially when he did not even represent the homebuyers in the eventual sale?