OPC Misleading adverts

[starshots]

I've contacted 3 different Porsche dealers today responding to adverts on here and on Autotrader and none of the adverts have been accurate regarding the mileage. 3,000 turned out to be 9,000 and a sub 10,000 mile car has 19,000. The last one I was told the mileage was wrong and someone would ring me back with the correct mileage....still waiting. There is also a car advertised with PDK that is manual and a paddle shift car that has button shift. Not very accurate advertising !

[EGTE]

Maybe shake up their complacency a little?

http://www.tradingstandards.uk/advice/index.cfm

https://www.asa.org.uk/Consumers/How-to-complain.a...

[Ozzie Osmond]

IMO errors on dealership ad's are usually down to laziness, that's all. It's so easy to cut and paste from another ad' rather than writing a completely new one.

[andyman_2006]

starshots said:

I've contacted 3 different Porsche dealers today responding to adverts on here and on Autotrader and none of the adverts have been accurate regarding the mileage. 3,000 turned out to be 9,000 and a sub 10,000 mile car has 19,000. The last one I was told the mileage was wrong and someone would ring me back with the correct mileage....still waiting. There is also a car advertised with PDK that is manual and a paddle shift car that has button shift. Not very accurate advertising !

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When we were looking at Cayman 981's and contacted the OPC the mileages were conservative, for example we looked at an ex demo cayman and it was advertised with 7000 miles, when we got the keys it had less than 6K on it. Porsche salesman said they usually cover themselves so this does surprise me. We have dealt with OPC Leeds and Sheffield if that helps.

Andy

[Akajak]

or laziness; an official Ferrari dealer has been advertising a California on PistonHeads as a 458 for months; I told them but they haven't bothered to change, not misleading I guess just lazy