Suggestion for PH classifieds...

[texasjohn]

I've read a couple of comments on here about vendors advertising cars with '78 miles' when in fact the car has 78000 miles.

This is especially noticeable when filtering PH classifieds results in order of mileage.

It seems to annoy people and is misleading, e.g.

dazco said:

"Look at my ad in Autotrader, I put 98 miles instead of 98,000 so that it would dupe you into looking at it when you put your search parameters lower than this car. My VERY FIRST contact with you was a deceitful lie designed to garner your interest in my high mileage shed. Now please come along to my showroom and trust everything I have to say about this car and the aftercare we provide"

I know we can't do anything about Autotrader, per the example above, but here's a suggestion (I am not sure if it would be difficult to implement):

The classifieds area vendor form could be modified so that when a seller puts the mileage into a box they can put three digits maximum i.e. 'to the nearest thousand'. This would stop the above practice over night!

Ok there will be a handful of cars that have less than a thousand miles but the seller can use free text to explain the exact mileage.

Thanking you in advance for considering this

Edited by texasjohn on Wednesday 9th September 14:26

[Mr Will]

It is an interesting problem, and one which will take careful consideration as to the best way to solve it.

I will add it to the "to-do" list though, and we will look at adding something in the near future.

[texasjohn]

Thanks Mr Will