(REAL PRICE IS £2,295)

[CoolHands]

what the fk is this?! reading through some poxy £999 advert and at the end I get to that!

where's my petrol bomb

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012... if anyone actually cares

[SystemParanoia]

i immediately skip past any advert where someone is obviously "trying it on" however that my be.

although if close id be tempted to agree to asking price on the phone, but when i get there say my real offer is ....

lol

[Groober]

I fking hate this as well, I think people do it because the ad is cheaper if the car is priced under £1000. I am tempted to turn up to view, spend hours viewing and being a general pain, then offer the full asking price of £999.

[CDP]

SystemParanoia said:

i immediately skip past any advert where someone is obviously "trying it on" however that my be.

Me too. Same goes for stating 115,000 miles as 115. I wish Autotrader would allow a minimum mileage setting as you could automatically eliminate these chancers.

Then again making them easy to spot has to be a good thing.

[BRMMA]

I'd never buy a car off one of these clown that puts the wrong price or mileage. do they think anyone will see the add for £995 and be interested and then when they find out it's actually £4000 still want to complete the purchase?

If they can't afford to pay the full ad price for cars £1k and over then i doubt they'll have been able to afford to maintain the car properly

[ic0n]

Adverts for cars priced < than £1k on Autotrader are cheaper.

[Rollcage]

People do it so that their car is the first one in the results list, it's not to do with the price of the ad.

[CoolHands]

I've obviously been out the game too long I didn't notice unitl I'd look at all the pictures etc and read the whole blinking advert. Right, now prepared I will scan the ads first to make sure there's no trickery afoot

[ashleyqprw12]

This is a real hate of mine.. Along with the perfect ad for a car that looks brilliant.. then at the bottom cat d etc etc.. Things like this should be in the title / first sentance

[martin84]

ic0n said:

Adverts for cars priced < than £1k on Autotrader are cheaper.

Yeah by like £10. Woopy do.

I was scrolling through the cheap cars recently and saw a Golf which looked far too new to be £999 so I clicked on it out of curiosity, thinking 'whats wrong with it?' and at the end it said 'Price is really £4,999.'

Three problems with this

A) Its fking annoying

B) To sell a car over £1,000 the advert doesnt cost much more, so if he's this much of a cheapskate how has he treated the car?

C) Anybody actually looking for a £5k Golf isnt going to see his car because its buried in the cheap car section. Do they now realise this tactic is totally self defeating?

[Shaw Tarse]

CDP said:

SystemParanoia said:

i immediately skip past any advert where someone is obviously "trying it on" however that my be.

Me too. Same goes for stating 115,000 miles as 115. I wish Autotrader would allow a minimum mileage setting as you could automatically eliminate these chancers.

Then again making them easy to spot has to be a good thing.

I hate misleading ads! http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds?Category=u...

[Tyrewrecker]

I fking hate these s
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?s=171&am...

"£999999999999999"

[CDP]

Shaw Tarse said:

I hate misleading ads! http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds?Category=u...

At last somebody's put a minimum mileage in

[XitUp]

I usually text or email them calling them s.

[Perd Hapley]

I think it's a great idea, a fantastic way to make your car stand out!


(REAL THOUGHT IS I HATE THEM WITH A PASSION)

[CoolHands]

XitUp said:

I usually text or email them calling them s.

I may go with that

[stropley]

Was looking at Superbs this morning & saw this :

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Wasted ages comparing it to similar age, similar miles & wondering why it was so cheap before spotting the "real price". Bugger.

I've often been tempted to follow XitUP's lead with telling off the fools who place these ads, suppose they're too thick to understand why anyone would be peed off?

[CBR JGWRR]

Off topic, but wow! The classifieds have changed:

http://beta.pistonheads.com/

[Viper_Larry]

stropley said:

Was looking at Superbs this morning & saw this :

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Wasted ages comparing it to similar age, similar miles & wondering why it was so cheap before spotting the "real price". Bugger.

I've often been tempted to follow XitUP's lead with telling off the fools who place these ads, suppose they're too thick to understand why anyone would be peed off?

I'd have stopped reading way before the 'real' price:

"CAMPBELT AND BREAK PADS EXCHANGE LAST MONTH"

[CoolHands]

I would have stopped at skoda