Dealers leaving sold adverts permanently listed

[GarageQueen]

Dear PH's,

It seems several dealers are leaving multiple adverts for 'SOLD' cars permanently in the classifieds section and therefore flooding the market in that section.
As a result a car I bought some time ago will be listed twice if I wish to sell it.

Is this right and can anything be done about it?

Edited by GarageQueen on Tuesday 2nd September 15:59

[RacingPete]

I will get the dealer team to look at this... if you have the specific advert that will be grand.

[GarageQueen]

RacingPete said:

I will get the dealer team to look at this... if you have the specific advert that will be grand.

Hi Pete, I've emailed you via your profile with the specifics, cheers

[RacingPete]

Got it and passed on to the dealer team now.

[GarageQueen]

any news on this, the adverts are still there clogging up the listings

[Monkeylegend]

Check out Toybox in the Westfield classifieds, they have cars showing that sold up to 2 years ago.

[GarageQueen]

Monkeylegend said:

Check out Toybox in the Westfield classifieds, they have cars showing that sold up to 2 years ago.

ok but, if I decide to sell my car on every dealer knows what I paid for it!!

[RacingPete]

GarageQueen said:

any news on this, the adverts are still there clogging up the listings

I have passed this on to the dealer team - I will chase up.

[Monkeylegend]

GarageQueen said:

Monkeylegend said:

Check out Toybox in the Westfield classifieds, they have cars showing that sold up to 2 years ago.

ok but, if I decide to sell my car on every dealer knows what I paid for it!!

I agree with you, it should be stopped.

[birdcage]

This dealer never takes ads down which is slightly tiresome when looking...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...

Currently 4 sold cars up

[GarageQueen]

RacingPete said:

GarageQueen said:

any news on this, the adverts are still there clogging up the listings

I have passed this on to the dealer team - I will chase up.

Thanks, but this is an issue all over Pistonheads, not just with the category I've highlighted. It doesn't happen on Autotrader.

The problem is the price is left on permanently, I'm wondering about the legality of it also.

Can you imagine if Estate agents were advertising your house as SOLD with the price and pictures for 6 months or more to the world?

[SilverSixer]

GarageQueen said:

It doesn't happen on Autotrader.

It does. My car was still listed for sale by the dealer on Autotrader over 6 months after I'd bought it.

[GarageQueen]

I've contacted the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for their comments.

[Shaw Tarse]

GarageQueen said:

I've contacted the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for their comments.

[Roo]

How would anyone know how much you paid for your car?

What would the previously advertised price have to do with what you're then currently advertising it for?

[RacingPete]

GarageQueen said:

Can you imagine if Estate agents were advertising your house as SOLD with the price and pictures for 6 months or more to the world?

I think the example of estate agents isn't the best, as they have previous adverts up (see this)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Also there are recent prices nearby, the ability to even show the price of the house over the years for what it was actually sold.

Also, the Internet is stored and with a bit of searching could try and find out the previous sold cars.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140709011824/http://p...


Though as said I have pushed this to the Dealer team and I am waiting for a response. But let me know how you get on with the ASA.

[markiii]

its been like it all over the classifieds for over 6 months, if this is the first the dealer team are aware of it they are doing a useless job

[AlexRS2782]

A few posters on a couple of Ford / RS forums have mentioned that RS Direct seem to have control of the entire "Focus RS" subsection of the Classifieds, as there have been times that they've listed a new advert and within 24/48 hours found it pushed back a couple of pages due to RSD bumping their ads back to the first page (which they've been doing for the past couple of years anyway).

I notice now they've now taken to leaving cars up that sold a couple of months ago, but bumping them back to the top with "Now Sold To XXX From XXX".

[ORD]

RacingPete said:

I think the example of estate agents isn't the best, as they have previous adverts up (see this)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Also there are recent prices nearby, the ability to even show the price of the house over the years for what it was actually sold.

Also, the Internet is stored and with a bit of searching could try and find out the previous sold cars.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140709011824/http://p...


Though as said I have pushed this to the Dealer team and I am waiting for a response. But let me know how you get on with the ASA.

I'm with Pete on this. The ASA will piss themselves.

[renmure]

I enquired about this Porsche, from this Dealer.. in April...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

and was told it had sold some weeks previously.
Hardly the crime of the century but not really helpful