A new real estate website, www.get1percent.com, promotes itself as a place where sellers can list and buyers can shop for property and pay only a one percent commission.

But many consumers were careless when typing in the URL of the site. They dropped the “get” and instead went to www.1percent.com—which is a site selling drug paraphernalia. Parents were upset, real estate buyers and sellers were complaining, and the executives at get1percent.com are trying to figure out what to do.

The folks at the real estate website have issued apologies to anyone who was offended and say they are “working on solving the problem.”

To which I say: What problem? The real estate website has simply offered buyers and sellers a low-commission resource. Consumers have the responsibility to accurately type in the URL and to not get mad just because another site with a totally different product line has a similar address—and appears to have been in business for more than a decade.

People just need to be careful when they type in URLs, and not try to turn their mistake into somebody else’s problem.

Jackie