Grr..Classified ads - dealer listing monthly cost, not price

[rscott]

I think these may have been mentioned before - 'Trade Price Cars' list their stock twice, once with a real price and again with the monthly fee instead. Most annoying when surfing for sheds...

For example:-
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[rscott]

Think I'm going to give up trying to search for sub £500 cars in the classifieds. 90% of the results are either wanted ads, monthly finance deals or random parts (eg Audi 'Aerodynamic Upgrades').

[Funk]

I thoroughly agree; last time I was looking for a shed for a mate of mine, it was pretty much unusable. I won't bother with it again.

It's not a fault of PH directly, but the adverts should be removed and not permitted. In all seriousness, someone searching for a £500 car doesn't want to see adverts for cars costing £xxx per month - it's a waste of everyone's time.

[jeremyc]

If you see a badly behaved classifieds ad, hit the 'Report to Admin' link on it and the relevant people can take a look.

[SonicShadow]

What the classifieds need is separate fields for monthly cost and deposit. That way, the dealers can list monthly prices, and the classifieds become searchable / filterable by finance prices / options. People looking for sheds would no longer see monthly deals as dealers would not be allowed to enter monthly cost as the purchase price.

Everyone wins.

[rscott]

jeremyc said:

If you see a badly behaved classifieds ad, hit the 'Report to Admin' link on it and the relevant people can take a look.

Can we have a bulk option please? It'll be easier than reporting every other search result.

[SonicShadow]

Also, for the time being put an age filter on it, that will filter out most of the finance priced cars

[rscott]

Tried reporting a few of these ads last week. They all still seem to be there?

[rscott]

Same dealer is still doing this. I've reported a few ads this week and last, but no change?