Irritating car sales descriptions?!

[McHaggis]

A fair advert here, but not clear if you have to pay £1500, or if he pays you £1500:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C296841

What a unique kit car....

[Dominicc01]

Wycombe83 said:

Spot the illegal number plate.

No, I'm 99% certain it's Manx. Which means that if anyone outside of the IoM wanted to buy the car, if it's the same situation as the Channel Islands, you have to pay VAT on importing, as well as registration duty, and then MOT etc. Not cheap.

[vexed]

'Head Turner'
Without looking at the advert, it is always safe to assume it's a chav-mobile.

[otherman]

Slight leak on the tank I'll fix it if I get 5 minutes

[EDLT]

vexed said:

'Head Turner'
Without looking at the advert, it is always safe to assume it's a chav-mobile.

Or this thing....
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C290613

[Negative Creep]

McHaggis said:

A fair advert here, but not clear if you have to pay £1500, or if he pays you £1500:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C296841

What a unique kit car....

Looks just like a S13 200SX from that angle

[Mr2Mike]

UnluckyTimmeh said:

I always hate when people write 'no reserve' on a vehicle or whatever but start it at £9,000 or something.

So basically there is, it's £9k isn't it? You fking idiot.

No reserve means you're starting it at 99p. Not im not taking any less than £xxxx

A reserve and a starting bid are different things. A starting bid is obvious and up front, a reserve is a hidden price.

[Tom74]

Dominicc01 said:

No, I'm 99% certain it's Manx. Which means that if anyone outside of the IoM wanted to buy the car, if it's the same situation as the Channel Islands, you have to pay VAT on importing, as well as registration duty, and then MOT etc. Not cheap.

It is an Isle of Man plate but there would be no Vat etc so price as is. Unfortunately the seller has priced it for an island market, ie high.

Looks like its at his kids who both have uk mobiles while he doesn't. I wonder if they are using it at weekends?

[TorqueVR]

I agree with almost all that has been been said and have thought so for some time. When looking at car ads I want to know why I should or not buy the car, and if it has any special features and I bought a VW Scirocco through PH 10 days ago from an advertiser with the same mindset. I put it into practice when I advertised my wife's RX8 on Wednesday night, I had three potential viewers by Thursday morning and sold it at the asking price to the first one to come round that afternoon. I'm sure that straight talking in the ad was the key.

Here's the wording - 43,000 miles in Winning Blue with a new MOT, just serviced, new tyres & refurbished wheels. One mature lady owner from new, this much treasured car looks and drives like new. It has all the usual RX8 bits and pieces including heated leather seats but also has original Mazda body trim/mud flaps, an electric glass roof, Sat-Nav & IPod conenction

[McHaggis]

TorqueVR said:

looks and drives like new.

I was ok with the rest. But a 43k mile car is never the same as new... it might be a good example, or with very low wear, but never the same as new....

[FunBusMk2]

Wycombe83 said:

M3Charlie said:

• ** THAT RUNS LIKE A BIRD ON L.P.G.OR PETROL IN STYLE **** WTF???

Spot the illegal number plate.

Looks ok to me - what am I missing?

[Drive Blind]

most of this sellers stuff,

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?d=6051

I read it every now and again for a laugh.

[OldSkoolRS]

FunBusMk2 said:

Wycombe83 said:

M3Charlie said:

• ** THAT RUNS LIKE A BIRD ON L.P.G.OR PETROL IN STYLE **** WTF???

Spot the illegal number plate.

Looks ok to me - what am I missing?

The 'V' is too close to the numbers, so the spacing is wrong. Maybe no a biggie, but a friend of mine got stopped and fined recently for something similar.

[Dominicc01]

FunBusMk2 said:

Looks ok to me - what am I missing?

If it was a UK car, it would be illegal for a 1989 car to be on a V (99) plate. But as discussed, it's Manx so there is no year identifier.

[McHaggis]

Drive Blind said:

most of this sellers stuff,

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?d=6051

I read it every now and again for a laugh.

Why?

Pics are good (very good) and many of the descriptions are clear with good detail.

It's a little OTT in places with the language admittedly...

[Drive Blind]

McHaggis said:

Why?


It's a little OTT in places with the language admittedly...

This, its way OTT at times.

Also he spends far too long waffling on about the badge or the marque. The car could be a snotter (i'm not saying they are) but he spends ages telling you the history of say Jaguar or Audi which isn't really relevant to the actual car for sale.

And some of the sayings appear over and over again if you regularly read his ads. He must just cut and paste to make a new ad up.

The biggest laugh I got was when he was selling a mk4 Golf GTI - the crap NA one. He actually said that the mk4 was the best of all the golf GTI's

[FunBusMk2]

Dominicc01 said:

FunBusMk2 said:

Looks ok to me - what am I missing?

If it was a UK car, it would be illegal for a 1989 car to be on a V (99) plate. But as discussed, it's Manx so there is no year identifier.

Ah, I see now - obvious really.

[nottyash]

"Fully Loaded"

What the fk does that mean?
Whenever I ring up and ask if certain options are fitted when this is on the advert they normally are not.

[UnluckyTimmeh]

Mr2Mike said:

A reserve and a starting bid are different things. A starting bid is obvious and up front, a reserve is a hidden price.

I understand that, but a reserve is what you want as a minimum. So is starting the bid at that amount, so it doesn't make any sense to start it at £xxxx and to say there's no reserve.

[aka_kerrly]

EDLT said:

Or this thing....
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C290613

If/when my lotto numbers come up i'd buy that. Can you imagine the reaction you'd get and how entertaining it would be.