Weirdest car photo on a selling website?
Discussion
Bowlers said:
That's a really creepy photo. Like he's just about to drive the Golf to a deserted lay by and do bad things to it. 
AlexRS2782 said:
Similar theme to the Hartley pic at the top of the page:
Any of the big dealer groups that (badly) Photoshop images of their cars onto different backgrounds in a failed attempt to provide an upmarket / posh setting to promote the car & try (well fail) to hide the reality of the dire / boring location of where the car / dealer is actually located
Examples normally feature:
- The car is always well out of scale compared to the luxurious building, golf course, country club, forest, etc, it has been superimposed into
- If it was parked in the way it was, with a real background & not the fake one, it would actually be parked halfway through a wall, hedge, etc.
- Whoever did the image crop, forgot to edit out the tarmac in the photo around the wheels of the car that indicate the car is in fact parked in a disabled bay, or no parking zone, not the posh, country club estate featured in the background
A few examples from a couple of the prolific dealer groups on eBay
Good bit of software as no photoshop needed, just upload the images and they come back without any background cars or Dave from service photobombing.Any of the big dealer groups that (badly) Photoshop images of their cars onto different backgrounds in a failed attempt to provide an upmarket / posh setting to promote the car & try (well fail) to hide the reality of the dire / boring location of where the car / dealer is actually located
Examples normally feature:
- The car is always well out of scale compared to the luxurious building, golf course, country club, forest, etc, it has been superimposed into
- If it was parked in the way it was, with a real background & not the fake one, it would actually be parked halfway through a wall, hedge, etc.
- Whoever did the image crop, forgot to edit out the tarmac in the photo around the wheels of the car that indicate the car is in fact parked in a disabled bay, or no parking zone, not the posh, country club estate featured in the background
A few examples from a couple of the prolific dealer groups on eBay
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Saturday 30th May 01:35
unsprung said:
Not too different are the crowd-sourced nominees to "Best of Craig's List".
For example:
"Beautiful Italian Paperweight!"
"I'm just an average dude that always wanted a Maserati. Since I was a kid I lusted after those Italian curves and exhaust note. Now my own kids come to me and ask me why there's no food to eat and the electricity has been turned off and I have to tell them it's because Daddy's car is sick again."
https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/esh/63246900...
That’s a quality advert, I like him!For example:
"Beautiful Italian Paperweight!"
"I'm just an average dude that always wanted a Maserati. Since I was a kid I lusted after those Italian curves and exhaust note. Now my own kids come to me and ask me why there's no food to eat and the electricity has been turned off and I have to tell them it's because Daddy's car is sick again."
https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/esh/63246900...
If I was local and in the market for one, I’d view it
When we ended up having to use a 360 degree camera to show the inside of the car, a colleague who was tasked with taking the photos for some reason didn't listen to the instructions on how to do it:
Basically set it up on its tripod in the middle of the inside of the car, get out of the car, get the image on your phone, hide behind the rearmost pillar and take the photo.
I was looking at our used stock on our website, clicked into a car to see the photos and there in the 360 image was him, sitting in the backseat with his handout (holding the camera, but you couldn't see it), with a strange expression on his face, all of them were like this.
It was bloody funny and we ripped the piss out of him for ages, I even set up one of the images as his desktop background.
Basically set it up on its tripod in the middle of the inside of the car, get out of the car, get the image on your phone, hide behind the rearmost pillar and take the photo.
I was looking at our used stock on our website, clicked into a car to see the photos and there in the 360 image was him, sitting in the backseat with his handout (holding the camera, but you couldn't see it), with a strange expression on his face, all of them were like this.
It was bloody funny and we ripped the piss out of him for ages, I even set up one of the images as his desktop background.
Argleton said:
alorotom said:
Wacky Racer said:
I really dislike the infamous Hartley lakeThat's what I take away from that.
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