Mileage porkies

[SLCZ3]

Just been on Autotrader and noticed a significant number of private and trade sellers putting very low miles, 123, up front,when checking it on the specific page still showing as 123 miles not 123K, anyone else noted this recently or have I just not noticed before.

[glasgowrob]

same on any advertising medium, people will deliberately manipulate facts and figures to get their listing more prominence

[IanCress]

Been going on for years. It's a way of avoiding the mileage filter. Obviously they think that people looking for a car with a maximum of 20k miles will also be happy with a car with over 100k on the clock.

Same as when you go looking for a bargain sub £1k car, and you get a load of nearly new cars listed at £350, but the advert states this is just the deposit or the monthly cost.

[JakeT]

It's happened forever. Or they'll 'forget' to put the mileage in the advert in the hope you'll never ask. Probably works for some, that's why they do it.

[mini1380cc]

JakeT said:

It's happened forever. Or they'll 'forget' to put the mileage in the advert in the hope you'll never ask. Probably works for some, that's why they do it.

It goes the other way as well though, as they are the adverts i instantly close the window on.

[davamer23]

Yep, it's been that way for a long time but it would be obvious to many that your average 10year old used car hasn't actually only done 123miles from new.

[Terminator X]

I sort by mileage so they're just trying to get their car to the top of my list. Tad pointless though as if I'm looking for a low miler then 123k miles won't do it for me

TX.

[nullogik]

They do the same with price. You will see a car listed as £900, then when you read the text it says actual price is £9000.

If I'm looking for a £900 car using the price filter I'm hardly going to be suddenly persuaded to buy a £9000 one just because of their advert. Same with mileage. If I want a low mileage car, manipulating the filtering system is not going to make me buy their high mileage car. If anything this tactic would put me off opening up their ad.

Edited by nullogik on Thursday 23 October 13:44

[singlecoil]

Most dealers are thick and, like most thick people, they think everybody else is thick too.

[madbadger]

nullogik said:

They do the same with price. You will see a car listed as £900, then when you read the text it says actual price is £9000

Which must be pointless.

Who is looking at sub £1k cars and suddenly decides to up the budget by £8k?

[madbadger]

madbadger said:

nullogik said:

They do the same with price. You will see a car listed as £900, then when you read the text it says actual price is £9000

Which must be pointless.

Who is looking at sub £1k cars and suddenly decides to up the budget by £8k?

And it presumably also gets missed by those with a budget around the actual £9k. Even more stupid.