As a seller, I wouldn't care who got what. As long as I got what I agreed to get at closing. If the agents want to duke it out, that's their headache and frankly none of my business.
If I put my house up for $300k, and a buyer counters with $290k, and I say sure that's fine, then I expect to get $290k. If I pay an agent to put it up on my behalf, I expect to pay my agent whatever I contracted them for. So if I contracted them at 5%, I expect to get $290k, and pay my agent $14,500. If my agent has an agreement with a buyer's agent to split it, whatever. It's my agent's money, they can do whatever they want with it. If the buyer is paying their agent a percentage, it's not coming out of the $290k they owe me. Again - it's their headache, not mine.
Regardless of the law, whoever is supposed to do what with however much - as long as I get what I agreed to get - everything else is someone else's problem, not mine.
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