Bad Car Adverts; Are People Actually Trying to Sell?
Discussion
Been looking around the classifieds for a while now, and something that really irks me is the vast number of poorly written adverts with terrible photos. A car advert is your sales pitch, and if you're trying to sell your car, then ideally you should make it as great as possible.
For example, I've decided to cross of numerous cars from my list simply because they might say '2 much 2 list call4 info plz'. In fact, anything written in text speak is instantly out, which is sad because that car may have been the perfect one, but then again, if the seller doesn't even have the most basic grasp of the Queen's English, then I sincerely doubt they will be at all competent in even the most basic car maintenance.
The other thing that really gets me angry is the piss poor photograph. Yes, it looks fine in the little thumbnail, but open up the larger image, and it appears as though you're viewing the picture on a 1980s Atari. When I sold my first car, my Dad helped me get the best quality photographs we could which would show the condition of it. Don't get me wrong, we weren't going for David Bailey professional shots, that would be silly for a car advert, but some people go to almost no effort at all, giving barely visible, pixellated rubbish which would appear to have been taken on one of the very first camera phones, printed out and then scanned in again.
And then there's the night time shot. Granted, usually it's for the stereotypical "boy racer" car, such as a 1.1 Saxo with a "Type R" badge, some Ripspeed tat stuck on, and a Heinz bean can where the exhaust should be. Often taken in McDonald's car park. Do people really think this is a way to sell cars?
Then there's the sort of seller who can't even be bothered to clean the car before photographing it for an advert. This just shows that they don't really care about the car, and I will instantly be clicking on the next advert if I see such a photo. Unless it's a Defender, which somehow doesn't quite look right when sparkling clean.
And finally, there's the trick of taking pictures of the car when it's wet. I was informed once that this was to hide scratches and such from the camera.
Bring on the piss taking, pot shots, flaming or whatever, frankly after 36 hours awake, and 2 bottles of cheap Chianti, I don't care.
For example, I've decided to cross of numerous cars from my list simply because they might say '2 much 2 list call4 info plz'. In fact, anything written in text speak is instantly out, which is sad because that car may have been the perfect one, but then again, if the seller doesn't even have the most basic grasp of the Queen's English, then I sincerely doubt they will be at all competent in even the most basic car maintenance.
The other thing that really gets me angry is the piss poor photograph. Yes, it looks fine in the little thumbnail, but open up the larger image, and it appears as though you're viewing the picture on a 1980s Atari. When I sold my first car, my Dad helped me get the best quality photographs we could which would show the condition of it. Don't get me wrong, we weren't going for David Bailey professional shots, that would be silly for a car advert, but some people go to almost no effort at all, giving barely visible, pixellated rubbish which would appear to have been taken on one of the very first camera phones, printed out and then scanned in again.
And then there's the night time shot. Granted, usually it's for the stereotypical "boy racer" car, such as a 1.1 Saxo with a "Type R" badge, some Ripspeed tat stuck on, and a Heinz bean can where the exhaust should be. Often taken in McDonald's car park. Do people really think this is a way to sell cars?
Then there's the sort of seller who can't even be bothered to clean the car before photographing it for an advert. This just shows that they don't really care about the car, and I will instantly be clicking on the next advert if I see such a photo. Unless it's a Defender, which somehow doesn't quite look right when sparkling clean.
And finally, there's the trick of taking pictures of the car when it's wet. I was informed once that this was to hide scratches and such from the camera.
Bring on the piss taking, pot shots, flaming or whatever, frankly after 36 hours awake, and 2 bottles of cheap Chianti, I don't care.
It's because people are lazy and don't care. Poor pics? They're not bothered. They can't see that taking decent ones will help with the sale. As for the incredible levels of illiteracy, they either don't know better or again, don't care.
It certainly has a bearing on my perception of them as a person, but more importantly how I think they'll have looked after the car. If they're sloppy and lazy with an ad that should take them only a few minutes to write and some photographs that should take not much longer to do properly then what are they like when it comes to caring for their vehicle?
It certainly has a bearing on my perception of them as a person, but more importantly how I think they'll have looked after the car. If they're sloppy and lazy with an ad that should take them only a few minutes to write and some photographs that should take not much longer to do properly then what are they like when it comes to caring for their vehicle?
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