Why is carandclassic.co.uk still so awful?

Why is carandclassic.co.uk still so awful?

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0a

23,879 posts

193 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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I love carandclassic. So easy to browse by marque or by 80s/90s etc. Pistonheads is horrible in comparison so only use it occasionally to see if it has improved.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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I should qualify my 'crap' statement justt by saying it's slow. That's all that's wrong with it.

JZZ30

1,070 posts

114 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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I think it's a decent site to navigate. My only gripe is the piss poor picture sizes.

Oh... And the fact it classes the whole of Scotland as a region.

BlimeyCharlie

901 posts

141 months

Sunday 25th June 2017
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Wow, what is the problem with a FREE site that is simple to use? People are never happy unless they are moaning.

I've used it to buy and sell with great success. Depends on what you buy and sell, your advert, price etc.

I was getting an average of 100 views per day for the last car I advertised recently on there, so ultimately it has proved that people are looking, and the rest is then down to me as the advertiser.

Would use again without hesitation.



Dazed and Confused

979 posts

81 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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Never had a problem with C&C and wouldn't want them to change it in any way.

confused

restoman

936 posts

207 months

Tuesday 27th June 2017
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My only criticism is that the pics could be bigger.

Jonny_

4,108 posts

206 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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See, I like it because it has that 1990s feel to it.

It's simple, it's not riddled with intrusive ads, and it's not bloated with pointless scripts. As a result it loads quickly, and doesn't consume stloads of data just to load a webpage. And it's easy to navigate!

Contrast that with a modern site like eBay or Autotrader, where everything feels slow and unresponsive.

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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^^ Exactly.

It's simple, it's functional, and it works. What more do you need?

Autotrader, Ebay and PH classifieds are awful to use.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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It's not mobile responsive, and it's very slow on a tablet.

I have used it for years, as I've already said but that doesn't make it perfect.

a8hex

5,829 posts

222 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Doofus said:
It's not mobile responsive, and it's very slow on a tablet.
The owners are then perhaps guilty of not keeping tabs on what their customers are using and then ensuring that works OK with those systems. But I'm intrigued as to why it should be slow on tablets when it is so quick on a PC, even a not very current one.
I've just tried www.carandclassic.co.uk on my phone, the page loaded in about 2s with only 1 bar of signal (4G) and it's a different looking version of the site, so I guess it has detected I'm running on a phone.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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a8hex said:
The owners are then perhaps guilty of not keeping tabs on what their customers are using and then ensuring that works OK with those systems. But I'm intrigued as to why it should be slow on tablets when it is so quick on a PC, even a not very current one.
I've just tried www.carandclassic.co.uk on my phone, the page loaded in about 2s with only 1 bar of signal (4G) and it's a different looking version of the site, so I guess it has detected I'm running on a phone.
Search works well, but of you select an ad, it takes up to 30 seconds to render the page, and until it's finished, you can't enlarge any of the pictures in the ad itself.

Generally OK on a PC.

ReaderScars

6,087 posts

175 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Jonny_ said:
It's simple, it's not riddled with intrusive ads, and it's not bloated with pointless scripts. As a result it loads quickly, and doesn't consume stloads of data just to load a webpage. And it's easy to navigate!

Contrast that with a modern site like eBay or Autotrader, where everything feels slow and unresponsive.
This is exactly what I want and what I like about it.

Plug Life

978 posts

90 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Old site for old farts.

a8hex

5,829 posts

222 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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Doofus said:
a8hex said:
The owners are then perhaps guilty of not keeping tabs on what their customers are using and then ensuring that works OK with those systems. But I'm intrigued as to why it should be slow on tablets when it is so quick on a PC, even a not very current one.
I've just tried www.carandclassic.co.uk on my phone, the page loaded in about 2s with only 1 bar of signal (4G) and it's a different looking version of the site, so I guess it has detected I'm running on a phone.
Search works well, but of you select an ad, it takes up to 30 seconds to render the page, and until it's finished, you can't enlarge any of the pictures in the ad itself.

Generally OK on a PC.
OK, I see it being slower here, when you go to a car ad the page you get has adverts on, the PC I normally use to browse here blocks all that rubbish. But this looks like it isn't Car & Classic being slow, it's the advertisers web sites, plus the fact the adverts are the sort of rubbish which is slow to render and eats CPU. The PH site is somewhat guilty of this, if I leave the browser open on PH on this laptop I quickly hear the fans kicking in as the adverts eat resources.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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I visit other sites with the same devices, not using an ad blocker, and c&c does seem to suffer somewhat more.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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thegreenhell said:
^^ Exactly.



Ebay and are awful to use.
Ebay are greedy bds, all the money they make and they still flood every page with extra non-related adverts.

Gompo

4,396 posts

257 months

Thursday 29th June 2017
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I think it's great for a day dreaming browse of nothing particular and usually interesting, but it would be improved if you could be more definite with search categories (selecting exact year and price range etc).

Small Car

877 posts

198 months

Saturday 23rd September 2017
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Doing some random searching and came across this thread.

The site is terrible - but great at the same time. Like when PH used to have the list of models and you searched like that. There are some thing that are dysfunctional, like on the iPad you need to keep scrolling down when you change the photo. BUT - I have had a number of sales with it - over £100k worth - and they have gone to a buyer who has called within 24 hours of the ad going up. An amazing free resource. But it still sucks!

Dynamic Space Wizard

925 posts

103 months

Saturday 23rd September 2017
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I can't see anything at all wrong with it. It works well and it always has done. The only improvement I can think of is a combined '0' remover and 'Buy it Now' button.

Reckless.

1 posts

77 months

Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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In my view Carandclassic is straightforward to use and gets results. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I did find, however, that it was running slower and slower on my iPad mini and eventually started to crash. The problem turned out to be Google! Some apps, Safari for example, allow you to delete saved data etc. Not so for Google; it just gets bigger and bigger and gobbles up the useable memory until it crashes. The solution is simple - delete the app, reload and start again. It worked for me anyway. I shall continue to use it - I browse quite often to keep up with market trends - and I have bought and sold a number of cars and a motorcycle with greate success. Thank you Carandclassic.