Old PH car adverts

[Ribol]

Has something changed on the site regarding old adverts?

If you do a search for adverts in say the TVR Tuscan section and then sort by highest price you get adverts that are as much as 4/5 years old.

A bit pointless if you are trying to work out what cars are selling for today. This didn't used to be the case, why is it happening now?

[Silent1]

The oldest i can find is this one; at 82 days
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/403215.htm

Are you looking in a different place?

[Ribol]

Eg:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/18079.htm

March 03 Reg, Iced Titanium, Full Hide Red Leather Upgrade, 390 Bhp, Air Conditioning, 18 Inch Alloys, Huge Drilled Discs, Kick Plates, Close Ratio Gearbox, Colour Coded Boot Carpet,Gas Discharge Full Beam Headlamps, Upgraded DAB Stereo, Tracker Horizon, CD Changer, Rear Speakers, as New, Full Factory Nationwide Dealer Warranty Till March 2005, £53450 New. 1 Year Old this week.

[Silent1]

fair enough, perhaps they retain a certain amount of sold adverts :dunno:

[miniman]

Out of date adverts are still useful for SEO purposes.

[Ribol]

Not much use if you are trying to find out the current value of a particular car, the example above sold 4 years ago - hardly relevant today.

More to the point this has only recently started happening, maybe it has been changed to show how many cars sell using the PH adverts, even as far back as 4 years ago

Paid private adverts anyone, coming to a website near you

[Mr Will]

As far as I am aware there should not be any adverts that old appearing in the listings, they should still expire after 60 days like they always have.

We have made some changes to the classifieds recently as part of our optimisations to speed up the site and it is possible that this is affecting something.

I will dig in to this further tomorrow and hopefully find out where these adverts have resurfaced from, but it is definately not an intentional decision on our part.

[Mars]

I lost the pics of my Cerbera I took for its advert. It was originally listed in November but relisted in Jan or Feb. Your thread got me quite excited about digging up the old ad, but I can't find it.

[Ribol]

Mr Will said:

As far as I am aware there should not be any adverts that old appearing in the listings, they should still expire after 60 days like they always have.

See link I posted above. I would post some other examples for you to view but as the site is running like a snail with piles at the moment I will leave it to the experts.

Mr Will said:

We have made some changes to the classifieds recently as part of our optimisations to speed up the site and it is possible that this is affecting something.

I would suggest my defintion of optimisation is not the same as yours. I have never seen this site running so badly in the 5 years I have been posting on it.

[Ribol]

Any progress on this problem, still the same?

[Mr Will]

Ribol said:

Any progress on this problem, still the same?

What searches are you doing to bring up the old adverts?

I haven't seen this happening at all, but if you can post a link to a page where it does then I will take a look and get it sorted.

[Ribol]

If you go to the say the TVR Chimaera page (same on any others), sort by highest price and then check the age of the adverts shown first.

The number of James Agger cars sold that come up is a bit of a clue.