Things that put you off even reading a car ad?

[The Terminator]

Mr2Mike said:

As opposed to one that may well have been crashed and repaired but isn't on the HPi register...

Your point is ??

[Roo3Stuart]

'No time wasters'. Always brings up a mental image of a bloke saying to himself 'Oh, I was going to go and pretend I wanted to buy that one, but I won't bother now'.

[vikingaero]

KissMyRs said:

Jeez, you guys must seriously limit the cars you buy.

Whats wrong with someone saying the car was £39000 new and its had £18000 worth of options, they are just trying to show the value of their car as opposed to another similar car for sale.

I'll explain why. It's a tactic used by the slimiest car dealer or seller. That phrase brings out notions in my mind that they won't be the type that will easily sort out post purchase problems. It's my money and my personal preference so kiss my rs.

[crostonian]

I avoid any advert that mentions the owner is a member of an Owner's Club, Web Forum or Pistonheads etc.

[KissMyRs]

vikingaero said:

I'll explain why. It's a tactic used by the slimiest car dealer or seller. That phrase brings out notions in my mind that they won't be the type that will easily sort out post purchase problems. It's my money and my personal preference so kiss my rs.

Erm, ok, you do understand a car with more optional extra's generally is worth more money?

I wasn't being rude to you, just asking why it was such an issue for someone to mention how much worth of optional extra's a car has had. I thought a good advert entailed describing the car?

[Morningside]

Slanted photos or even upside down where they cannot be arsed to check their advert before posting or taken on some stty 1990s mobile at some poor resolution.


But the ones that really wind me up are ***SOLD*** but many more like this in stock.

[Rtig]

"one woman owner"
"lexus lights"
And the one that really annoys me more than any other
"L@@@@@@k"

No I won't f@cking look now! There is a local car company that uses this on pretty much every car on their websiteI, why?!

[Tonto]

"Previous owner recently spend £15k on it".

Do I want a car that can rack up that level of repairs???? probably not!

[peterg1955]

yellowbentines said:

"first to see will buy"

^ that... as soon as I see that phrase I move on to the next advert, it's just ridiculous

[NotAnotherTrader]

Tonto said:

"Previous owner recently spend £15k on it".

Do I want a car that can rack up that level of repairs???? probably not!

I bought a 2005 4.2 bi-turbo V8 Audi RS6 where the previous owner spent £8000 on pads and discs all around, 2 new turbos, cam belt and water pump, full service, 4 new tyres, gearbox oil and filter change, Bilstein suspension and a cat back Miltek exhaust. All in the space of a year...

personally I'm glad i bought it after somebody else spent a lot of money making it mechanically perfect!!!

would you prefer to buy a performance car thats only ever had oil and filter changes and is due a whole overhaul of the suspension, brakes, engine etc or would you prefer to have a car thats had £15k spent on it to keep it as new....

[anonymous-user]

Open an ad to find that it has two pictures, both of with are 200 x 200 pixels and neither show anything worth looking at ---> close ad.

[R_U_LOCAL]

bozzy101 said:

"genuine reason for sale"

This.

Like you'd sell your car for no reason.

Or for a reason that wasn't genuine.

[r11co]

Rich n Em said:

Lee540 said:

Pay the £50, repair it and get rid of the sentence from your advert.

An unexpected MOT bill that was almost a quarter the value of the car means I don't have the money to fix it. I don't want to leave out the minor dent from the advert. I can't think of a better way to explain it.

The quote was £140, not £50, in my instance.

I understand your dilemma, but as this thread proves you have alienated some of your potential customers, so if you think of the cost of the advert as an investment then you have devalued that investment with that sentence and cost yourself money if you now don't get a sale because of it. However, if you don't mention it then there's the very good chance you'll get chopped down in price when a potential buyer comes round to view anyway (so you lose) or worse walks away (so you lose even more).

This is what you've got to weight up. Try getting another quote for the work - you might get it down to something nearer to what you can afford and you'll make it back at the other end.

[cologne2792]

Anything older in which the seller proclaims himself an expert but knows nothing:

' I've had this MR2 mk2 for three years and it's definitely one of the best twin turbo versions I've ever seen '

or at my level - on the Capri front,

' Genuine MK3 2.8 Laser ' or recently on ebay a ' 2.8 injection special ' that was on a 'T' plate and clearly badged 3.0 Ghia but was being sold by an expert !

Also anything badly written with dubious spelling - We can't all be Wordsworth but these are people not bright enough to use a spell checker...

Worst is: ' 2.0 turbo engine fitted but down on the log book as a 1.6 ' - Muppet on so many levels.

[Matt UK]

Bradford
Birmingham

[g7jhp]

POA

or

HWM

[entwistlecymru]

1996, 406, 1.9td, 140k, 11 months MOT price... £500

[GrumpyTwig]

Capital letters, can't bothered trying to read them when they're all in caps.

[g3org3y]

Matt UK said:

Bradford
Birmingham

[juggsy]

This thread pretty much sums it up - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...