Car advert interior photos taken through closed windows

[anonymous-user]

Hi Chaps,

I've seen a few adverts lately where the car's interior has been photographed solely from outside, through closed windows.

Is this a bit suspicious, or is the seller just being lazy?

[georgeyboy12345]

Either way it’s bad. I’d avoid.

[ZX10R NIN]

If they can't be bothered then nor can I.

[ShinyPsyduck]

Laziness. I manage adverts for a car dealer and our competitions ads are shocking. Its 2021 and some adverts still have under 10 images, outdated POS and low quality prep.

Edited by ShinyPsyduck on Wednesday 24th November 16:39

[GolfDragon]

I travelled nearly 200 miles once to see a few cars in a garage because they looked very good in the photos and the garage had good reviews.

When I saw the cars I was interested in myself, I could see the interior trim between the seats and the doors was totally scuffed by what I would assume was probably the previous owners moving car seats in and out. Safe to say I wasn’t impressed by that not being shown in the adverts.

When I questioned this I was told “it’s not a brand new car so it will have a few marks” but ultimately had I seen that before I’d gone to have a look I wouldn’t have had a wasted journey.

(I also learnt the valuable lesson of if you are going to travel far try and get a video walk around of the car and especially the interior and door trims). The next garage I eventually purchased from facilitated this for me before I reserved the vehicle.

[ShinyPsyduck]

I once did the same but with Motorhub if you have heard of them, absolute riot of a place.

At my work we do not show any damage and if a car has a scuffed wheel we will try and avoid it etc. We have had a few cases where we have shot a car before it had been fully valeted/prepped and when the customer came to see the car they were viewing they were not impressed. I don’t blame them though if the car looks mint then its false advertising. Not up to me sadly.

Always get a video from the sales person and always ask if the spec included on the advert are all present on the car. Bluetooth, Sat Nav with SD card if needed, spare wheel.

[Dan W.]

ShinyPsyduck said:

I once did the same but with Motorhub if you have heard of them, absolute riot of a place.

At my work we do not show any damage and if a car has a scuffed wheel we will try and avoid it etc. We have had a few cases where we have shot a car before it had been fully valeted/prepped and when the customer came to see the car they were viewing they were not impressed. I don’t blame them though if the car looks mint then its false advertising. Not up to me sadly.

Always get a video from the sales person and always ask if the spec included on the advert are all present on the car. Bluetooth, Sat Nav with SD card if needed, spare wheel.

Its a difficult one with pics, I do all the pics for our cars and i always take about 20 to 30 exterior interior ect. Never show any damage on the pics just highlight the selling features.

But we are very upfront with people who enquire, Had a guy on the phone this morning from south wales saying pics look great car looks mint for its age anything i need to be aware of ?

Told him a few light stone chips on the bonnet and a couple of light scratches will are visible but have been touched up to a good standard its an 8/10 i feel for its age 2015 Suzuki Swift

said we should photograph the damage, That stuff barely shows up on images and i would consider it age related marks nothing unusual.

Finding the balance between highlighting the good and bad points can be tricky