Under valued cars sellers asking to be emailed for details!!

[Bebee]

They read like this:

VERY IMPORTANT--I CAN`T BE REACHED THROUGH PISTONHEADS CONTACT SELLER FORM OPTION ***PLEASE NOTE : For Availability of this car please contact seller directly. You will find contact details on photos --------------------------------------- Whit...


I'm fed up with seeing these bullst ads, they force me to view 'Trade only' to avoid them.

Is there anything that can be done?

[CHIEF]

The thing is i'm sure the managment cannot read every single ad, I dont think the mods can actually do anything about this as I suspect the classifieds is a totally seperate entity to the forums if you know what I mean.

Like anything suspect i'd say if you see anything like this then report it. Only takes two ticks.

[MattDell]

It's tough to decipher text in images, which is why they do that. We have measures in place to detect keywords in the description, but the images we can't do much about. If you report them, they'll be taken down quickly.

These scammers come and go in waves. At the moment they're hitting the site a fair bit so please report the ad (button underneath the image gallery) when you see them and we'll get them taken down. I'll also look at expanding our keywords to flag them up earlier.

[MattDell]

If anyone sees one, put the URL in here so I can have a look at the description.

[Bebee]

Will do, cheers for reply.

[Bebee]

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/v...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...


http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

[MattDell]

Taken care of those.

[Munter]

They put a bunch more up. E.g.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

changed the pic format now to miss out the yellow/orange box they had before.
Edit: loads more than I realised! All I serached on was diesel under 6k, must be at least 10 dodgy adverts in the recent 15.

Edited by Munter on Saturday 1st February 22:49