Uninformative waffle in car ads

[Lester H]

Anyone else fed up of reading how marvellous a garage is, followed by a brief description of a car? This phenomenon seems worse with classics and auctions. You many want a quick photographic look round a vehicle but are subjected to lots of waffle about auctioneers. With the newer normal retail stock, the text is often devoted to the add - on warranty schemes or available extras.

[Pica-Pica]

It’s the same hyperbole everywhere on any product or service, multiple adjectives that don’t really add information.

[uktrailmonster]

Agreed, it is irritating. I wish they would just list the cost options spec (Not all the standard equipment) and decent quality photos.

[bristolracer]

AI written adverts
Loads of the picture allocation taken up with warranty ads AA cover etc
Admin fees
Trade only sale

Oh the joys of buying a car

[mac96]

Classics, where they tell you what anyone vaguely interested in the model would know, but nothing about the actual condition of the example being sold. Grrr!

[Mr Squarekins]

I always want to know that the previous owner was a doctor.

You see that alot. So f#####g what?

[Puddenchucker]

uktrailmonster said:

Agreed, it is irritating. I wish they would just list the cost options spec (Not all the standard equipment) and decent quality photos.

You don't want a list like this one then?

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/18894571

[BunkMoreland]

Lester H said:

Anyone else fed up of reading how marvellous a garage is, followed by a brief description of a car? This phenomenon seems worse with classics and auctions. You many want a quick photographic look round a vehicle but are subjected to lots of waffle about auctioneers. With the newer normal retail stock, the text is often devoted to the add - on warranty schemes or available extras.

Yep. Its been a bugbear for years now!

Not the only example out there, but indicative of the stty sales people out there!

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/19052401

5 paragraphs. Of which the first 3 are about the model, and not the actual car for sale!

Get the same on a lot of JDM cars as well (22b of TME Evo 6's)

[Gulf7]

Main dealers are the worst - they just put the spec from the original sales brochure on there even though half of it's wrong.

[ChocolateFrog]

Lester H said:

Anyone else fed up of reading how marvellous a garage is, followed by a brief description of a car? This phenomenon seems worse with classics and auctions. You many want a quick photographic look round a vehicle but are subjected to lots of waffle about auctioneers. With the newer normal retail stock, the text is often devoted to the add - on warranty schemes or available extras.

I'm seeing more and more with no description at all.

Just the 10 paragraphs copy and pasted about the dealer and then some pictures thrown in as an afterthought.