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This is just nonsense.

No, it is not nonsense. Just outside your own experience.

A buyer's agent is typically compensated by the seller.

Yes, and therein lies a built in conflict of interest, because it is
in all the agents' interests to obtain the highest possible purchase
price.

In any case, the devil is in the details. Apparently the OP signed
no agency agreement with "his" agent, so in some states his agent
would not be his however he says he is in Illinois. There, according
to http://www.illinoisrealtor.org/IAR/b...l/agency2.html ,
in his case a presumed agency may exist. Or not, depending on what
exacty "his" agent told him.

Una