People who lie on car ads

[VladD]

"First to see will buy".

Always makes me want to go round and look at it just to prove them wrong.

"Best colour".

Obviously not for people who bought them new in a different colour.

[98elise]

F10ben28 said:

I've seen some private sale cars that looked and sounded amazing but were rubbish in person.

I still messed up passing on one of them tho. Could have got a 05 Subaru WRX, one owner, full service history, loads of paperwork, all for 4400. It needed about 400 quid to put it right, my main concern was the decals which had been on since new, I wanted them gone but worried about shadows on the paint.

A local dealer bought it and had it up for over 6k a few weeks later.

What annoys me is when they advertise a car with say 2 previous owners because that's what the log book says. In other words they don't count the latest owner.

My latest car was advertised as 2 owners, log book turns up, turns out it's had 3. Oh well my bad.

Nobody would think of a dealer as an "owner" or keeper when a car moves in and out of trade. That's why they use a different section on the V5.

[TooLateForAName]

98elise said:

Nobody would think of a dealer as an "owner" or keeper when a car moves in and out of trade. That's why they use a different section on the V5.

You do know that traders dont show up as owners on the V5?

[LordGrover]

There's an advert on PH at the moment, listed at one price, but then in the body of the advert it states it's actually £2,500 more.

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CalNaughtonJnr said:

How do you know it's definitely your old car?

LordHaveMurci said:

How do you know it's the same car out of interest?

The car had a distinctive kerbed wheel and a mark in the paintwork (WBAC took off the same as it would have cost to fix them, so we left them). The dealer hasn't bothered fixing them either despite the >£20k asking price.

[R8Steve]

LordGrover said:

There's an advert on PH at the moment, listed at one price, but then in the body of the advert it states it's actually £2,500 more.

Reduced from the original price and not bothered to check the actual advert most likely, i see that one quite a lot.

[LordGrover]

R8Steve said:

Reduced from the original price and not bothered to check the actual advert most likely, i see that one quite a lot.

I don't think so:

ph classifieds said:

So, here comes the complicated bit....I have listed the car at 12k (current market value for a standard car at 50,000 miles) in fear of someone flicking through and scrolling past thinking it’s a standard but overpriced car.
Due to the modifications, I am actually looking for an extra £2500 taking the total to £14,500 .
If you were to buy all the mods new, you’d be talking in excess of £5000 for parts, then you’ve got labour to add to that still.

Here

[R8Steve]

LordGrover said:

R8Steve said:

Reduced from the original price and not bothered to check the actual advert most likely, i see that one quite a lot.

I don't think so:

ph classifieds said:

So, here comes the complicated bit....I have listed the car at 12k (current market value for a standard car at 50,000 miles) in fear of someone flicking through and scrolling past thinking it’s a standard but overpriced car.
Due to the modifications, I am actually looking for an extra £2500 taking the total to £14,500 .
If you were to buy all the mods new, you’d be talking in excess of £5000 for parts, then you’ve got labour to add to that still.

Here

Ok, that is really odd.

Instead of flicking through and scrolling past thinking it's overpriced you need to read the advert to realise it is.

[F10ben28]

98elise said:

Nobody would think of a dealer as an "owner" or keeper when a car moves in and out of trade. That's why they use a different section on the V5.

You don't get what I mean.

The third owner is the one who traded it in to the dealer I bought it from.

They showed me the log book they took off the third owner which states 2 previous owners, as did their advert on auto trader.

If I had been using my brain I would have realised the number of owners is 3 and that their advert was inaccurate.

[littlebasher]

Take your pick

"Air con needs regassing" (it's hopelessly fked)
"Only have green slip from logbook" (driveway trader)
"Selling because Wife doesn't like it" (discovered a serious fault and now want rid)
"Only selling because downsizing, but will swap for a Range Rover" (normally selling something like a Zafira, but as above it's knackered)
"2 weeks MOT, but will pass no bother" (a quick check of the MOT history revealing that it just failed a MOT on everything)

Pretty much all ads contain one lie or another !


Alternatively, be economical with the truth. Take this car for example

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

No mention in the advert about condition, but having seen it in the flesh i can confirm that it's an utter st tip with interior damage consistent with a wild animal being trapped inside for a week. I'm surprised that they put it on their forecourt at that money, but i guess if you have nothing good to say about its condition - just say nothing!

[talksthetorque]

Was an advert on facebook fencing selling the other week for a blue 307. two pics of a 307, one blue estate, one silver hatch, and three pics of a 206 cc!

it was changed before I had a chance to screenshot it, and a comment from the then (and still probably now) owner
"sorry hun, raining so cudn't take fotos of actul car. found these on google"

[Jonmx]

littlebasher said:

Alternatively, be economical with the truth.

I prefer to be clever with the truth. I'm currently selling a Mondeo on Ebay as spares/repair after it failed it's Mot spectacularly with a cracked rear subframe. I've put in the ad title that it's failed it's Mot, I've put up a photo of the Mot fail sheet and a link to the .gov website so people can check the vehicle's Mot history. I haven't used the words 'cracked' or 'subframe' anywhere in the advert though as it's not a good combination of words! Instead I've put, 'in addition to the Mot fail list, the bad bits are.......' I finish the ad with 'Please read the Mot fail sheet before bidding.' This thread's got me wondering now if I've been less than honest!
I got stitched on Ebay with a cheap Polo earlier this year that apparently only needed new leads or coil pack. Turned out to be a bent valve! Still, the scrap man gave me more than I paid for it.

[Jimmy Recard]

cuprabob said:

The ones that make me laugh are the ads which start off as if their selling one of their kids.

Genuine reason for sale - yet to meet a seller who didn't have a genuine reason for sale

Yeah, my thoughts too. "It's a dog and I'd rather have the money than the car" is a genuine reason!

[GeordieInExile]

My pet hate is traders having a different price in the header of the ad than is on the windscreen.

I bought a MINI for £1400 (listed at £1500) once which had £1795 on its window. It certainly was not worth the higher price. (It probably wasn't worth the £1400 I paid either, but hey ho...)

Then when they 'settle' at the price the car was actually advertised for online, they act like they're doing you some massive favour. I don't think so.

[loggo]

I'm always impressed by .... " Genuine reason for sale - I've bought another car"

[F10ben28]

Jonmx said:

I prefer to be clever with the truth. I'm currently selling a Mondeo on Ebay as spares/repair after it failed it's Mot spectacularly with a cracked rear subframe. I've put in the ad title that it's failed it's Mot, I've put up a photo of the Mot fail sheet and a link to the .gov website so people can check the vehicle's Mot history. I haven't used the words 'cracked' or 'subframe' anywhere in the advert though as it's not a good combination of words! Instead I've put, 'in addition to the Mot fail list, the bad bits are.......' I finish the ad with 'Please read the Mot fail sheet before bidding.' This thread's got me wondering now if I've been less than honest!
I got stitched on Ebay with a cheap Polo earlier this year that apparently only needed new leads or coil pack. Turned out to be a bent valve! Still, the scrap man gave me more than I paid for it.

It is shady if you, I would change your advert.

[alorotom]

F10ben28 said:

Jonmx said:

I prefer to be clever with the truth. I'm currently selling a Mondeo on Ebay as spares/repair after it failed it's Mot spectacularly with a cracked rear subframe. I've put in the ad title that it's failed it's Mot, I've put up a photo of the Mot fail sheet and a link to the .gov website so people can check the vehicle's Mot history. I haven't used the words 'cracked' or 'subframe' anywhere in the advert though as it's not a good combination of words! Instead I've put, 'in addition to the Mot fail list, the bad bits are.......' I finish the ad with 'Please read the Mot fail sheet before bidding.' This thread's got me wondering now if I've been less than honest!
I got stitched on Ebay with a cheap Polo earlier this year that apparently only needed new leads or coil pack. Turned out to be a bent valve! Still, the scrap man gave me more than I paid for it.

It is shady if you, I would change your advert.

I don't think thats shady at all ... in fact much the opposite, you're presenting them with the failures and the link to view the electronic version ... you can't do all the leg work for buyers!

[VladD]

alorotom said:

F10ben28 said:

Jonmx said:

I prefer to be clever with the truth. I'm currently selling a Mondeo on Ebay as spares/repair after it failed it's Mot spectacularly with a cracked rear subframe. I've put in the ad title that it's failed it's Mot, I've put up a photo of the Mot fail sheet and a link to the .gov website so people can check the vehicle's Mot history. I haven't used the words 'cracked' or 'subframe' anywhere in the advert though as it's not a good combination of words! Instead I've put, 'in addition to the Mot fail list, the bad bits are.......' I finish the ad with 'Please read the Mot fail sheet before bidding.' This thread's got me wondering now if I've been less than honest!
I got stitched on Ebay with a cheap Polo earlier this year that apparently only needed new leads or coil pack. Turned out to be a bent valve! Still, the scrap man gave me more than I paid for it.

It is shady if you, I would change your advert.

I don't think thats shady at all ... in fact much the opposite, you're presenting them with the failures and the link to view the electronic version ... you can't do all the leg work for buyers!

It is slightly shady. He knows there's a fault and has deliberately not mentioned it in the text. Instead has linked to an indirect method of finding out hoping that people won't spot it, but covering his arse for caveat emptor.

[wildcat45]

I gave up looking for the rear wash wipe and rear back windows of an MGTF I bought.

[J4CKO]

MPG is a good one, one like my Merc V8 advertised "Does 30 MPG", er, no it doesn't, well I saw 32.1 once but I couldn't never claim it did over 30 mpg with a straight face, it does late teens/early twenties, or worse.

Car salesman at Toytoa, asked him why I would buy a Toyota Aygo over a Citroen C1 or Peugeot 107, better, thicker steel is used apparently and he then showed me the exhaust manifold that says "Toyota", apparently a better engine fitted than the exact same unit in the others, no it bloody isnt, he argued when I said its the same power and torque quote, same displacement, same number of cylinders, same mpg quote etc etc, but he insisted that it was a different, far superior 3 cylinder 1 litre engine, not to be confused with the crap in the competitors version, wonder how many cars get sold on that bks ?

Also, people who say a car has easily fixed faults, well fix them.

Air con needs degassing.