Does this help sell your car?
Does this help sell your car?
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marcosgt

Original Poster:

11,498 posts

205 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Ok - Only one of a set and the rest are fine, but surely it's not too hard to get a photo of the front of a stationary car ALMOST in focus! smile

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Dino D

1,953 posts

250 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Sure does - it got you to start a thread all about it on the UK's largest motoring forum...

marcosgt

Original Poster:

11,498 posts

205 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Dino D said:
Sure does - it got you to start a thread all about it on the UK's largest motoring forum...
Fair point! smile

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Risotto

3,933 posts

241 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Different folks find different things odd. Personally I've never understood why so many people find it impossible to take a photo of a car without including a huge shadow of themselves.

Photos like the one in the OP aren't the best way to sell a car but in some ways it can work in a buyer's favour. Some people are so needlessly judgmental that they wouldn't consider viewing a car that's advertised by someone who can't spell or operate a camera.

If, on the other hand, you take the view that these skills have no bearing on whether the vendor has maintained their car; you can often pick up a good car at a bargain price.



Uhura fighter

7,018 posts

212 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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I like the ones with a "member of the traveller community" posing on the bonnet.

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Stupid filter......

Gaygle

322 posts

237 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Dino D said:
Sure does - it got you to start a thread all about it on the UK's largest motoring forum...
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DannyVTS

7,543 posts

197 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Mmm I love facelift ZT's biggrin

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

199 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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It's where none of the photos in the advert are actually the right way up that gets me.

FamilyDub

3,587 posts

194 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Risotto said:
Some people are so needlessly judgmental that they wouldn't consider viewing a car that's advertised by someone who can't spell or operate a camera.
^^ I'm one of them. I didn't go to see an R32 recently, only because the owner of the cherished vehicle was trying to punt his beloved metallic purple MK4 R32 (it was DBP). rolleyes

Maybe not on some locally advertised site, but on a specialist forum full of enthusiasts? No, I'd like the advert to make sense, at least.

I'm cynical when an advert holder claims to 'cherish' their car so much, but they can't string a few words together, or tell me the true name of the colour of their car...

DLovett

329 posts

192 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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I can deal with that, but I refuse to view a car or contact the seller if the car isn't washed and vacuumed. It believe it says quite a lot about the way the car has been maintained if the current owner can't even be arsed to clean it for the photos when selling it.