Carzone price structure has changed?

Dermo123

Anyone notice this? The price is still €30 but ony for 28days. After this you pay to renew. You can still alter or modify your ad within this time but the time left will not reset back to 30 days as it did before. I wonder does this apply to dealers also?
I will certainly rethink my options before using the site to sell again.

Anan1

I have an ad up at the moment - 16 days left to run, and it won't let me renew it. I'll give them a good roasting tomorrow - that's not what I paid for. Keep you posted.

Barr

Dermo123 wrote: »

Anyone notice this? The price is still €30 but ony for 28days. After this you pay to renew. You can still alter or modify your ad within this time but the time left will not reset back to 30 days as it did before. I wonder does this apply to dealers also?
I will certainly rethink my options before using the site to sell again.

I renewed an ad a couple of days ago and was'ent charged

It will be sh*t if you have to pay €30 every month

tossy

when i sold my car at the start of the year this is the system autotrader and a few others used,im surprised carzone haven't done this sooner to be honest!

Carzone should cahnage its name to windowshoppers.ie its useless!!

Anan1

It's looking for €15 from me to renew the ad for another month.

maidhc

mass exodus to CBG.ie which seems now to be free?

Captain Slow IRL

I got caught with this - try editing the ad, and go through the motions - worked for me!

EDIT = Tried it again (just going to edit, don't add photo's and click done on the third screen) it's still working!

HungryJoey

I also put up an ad under the impression I could keep it up until sold! I'll never advertise through carzone now if it only last's 28-days. I'm pretty pissed off as I wasn't in a hurry to sell up. I'm going to send them an email.

Barr

I think they should'nt be allowed to implement this price change on existing ads. When I signed up there was no time limit.

galwaytt

Here's what I just sent them:

I have just been informed that you are going to charge for ad renewals. I have spent a lot on ads with you over a long period and I can assure you if you charge to renew, I will never use your service again - you are being opportunistic, and greedy to charge for renewals, given that you have no hard copy. Isolate your on-line users and...........you have no users.

JHMEG

maidhc wrote: »

mass exodus to CBG.ie which seems now to be free?

CBG is free only if you have just one photo, and just for 1 week.

When I heard it first thought it sounded too good to be true....

HungryJoey

galwaytt wrote: »

Here's what I just sent them:

I have just been informed that you are going to charge for ad renewals. I have spent a lot on ads with you over a long period and I can assure you if you charge to renew, I will never use your service again - you are being opportunistic, and greedy to charge for renewals, given that you have no hard copy. Isolate your on-line users and...........you have no users.

I sent them an almost identical email. They might listen to us, I've seen it posted on several forums now, all saying similar stuff.

JHMEG

HungryJoey wrote: »

I sent them an almost identical email. They might listen to us, I've seen it posted on several forums now, all saying similar stuff.

I think all emails to cbg go to /dev/null - I don't know anyone who has ever got a response from them...

Anan1

land9 wrote: »

I got caught with this - try editing the ad, and go through the motions - worked for me!

EDIT = Tried it again (just going to edit, don't add photo's and click done on the third screen) it's still working!

I tried that too. It renewed the ad, but it's still saying only 16 days left.

Cionád

It's a risky strategy. Now is the time for competitors to make a drive for their business.

Eoin

Just sent an email too. Pretty disappointing move for them to make, could end badly for them.

bazz26

Didn't carzone change hands not too long ago? Are they now ownd by the same people behind autotrader?

On the plus side at least all those ads up there where the car was sold ages ago will be gone and also those ads where someone uses the old but replaces the original car with a completely different car so that they didn't have to take out another advert.

Eoin

bazz26 wrote: »

Didn't carzone change hands not too long ago? Are they now ownd by the same people behind autotrader?

On the plus side at least all those ads up there where the car was sold ages ago will be gone and also those ads where someone uses the old but replaces the original car with a completely different car so that they didn't have to take out another advert.

Yup, Autotrader now own them. As I've said to carzone, and on this forum - if they only put up a "report this advert" link, the "OTHER OTHER BMW FORD MONDEO" adverts would die out.

Unfortunately CBG is awful to use, and I can't think of many other similar sites that would have anywhere near the same amount of visitors.

unkel

Anan1 wrote: »

I'll give them a good roasting tomorrow - that's not what I paid for. Keep you posted.

Please do let us know. Their change of policy looks like commercial suicide to me. Well, at least for private sales.

Carzone got their prime on-line position because of the high quality search engine, the relatively cheap ads including multiple pictures and ads that were there until the car was sold. That's all!

eoin_s wrote: »

As I've said to carzone, and on this forum - if they only put up a "report this advert" link, the "OTHER OTHER BMW FORD MONDEO" adverts would die out.

Indeed, but those re-used ads have only been the exception - not that big a general annoyance. That said, why would they not use a "report this advert" link? Let the general public do their work for them. I know what I'm talking about

seasam

I think it's about time they did something like this it will clean up the database which is good for us all and give more realistic prices for cars. I do agree though they should not back date it to cars allready on the site

Anan1

JUst got off the phone to them. They'll renew existing ads FOC over the phone.

Eoin

Anan1 wrote: »

JUst got off the phone to them. They'll renew existing ads FOC over the phone.

Carzone just replied to my email sent and confirmed the same thing. While this move will remove a lot of crap, it will also drastically reduce the choice out there.

HungryJoey

Just got a nice reply off them, in fairness to them.

They have also extended my ad and will continue to renew it via. a contact number they provided me. Thanks, carzone!

But still, bad move!

Captain Slow IRL

seasam wrote: »

I think it's about time they did something like this it will clean up the database which is good for us all and give more realistic prices for cars.

This isn't to clean up the database - it's to make more money. They should actually look through the ads and pick out the ones that should be removed, like the alloys or car parts or the ad that says "Honda Civic - Peugeot 106 gti"

seasam

land9 wrote: »

This isn't to clean up the database - it's to make more money. They should actually look through the ads and pick out the ones that should be removed, like the alloys or car parts or the ad that says "Honda Civic - Peugeot 106 gti"

I'm sure it wasn't just to clean it up but I'll be happy when I click on a car and it's an up to date ad for a car that is actually for sale

Eoin

This obviously means less cars will be listed. Granted, some of the ones no longer there will be bullsh*t adverts, but some of them will be genuine adverts from people who don't want to fork out every month. This may mean more up-to-date adverts, but you can be pretty sure it will mean less to choose from as well.

seasam

eoin_s wrote: »

This obviously means less cars will be listed. Granted, some of the ones no longer there will be bullsh*t adverts, but some of them will be genuine adverts from people who don't want to fork out every month. This may mean more up-to-date adverts, but you can be pretty sure it will mean less to choose from as well.

I hear you ! bottom line you can't please all the people all the time

unkel

seasam wrote: »

I hear you ! bottom line you can't please all the people all the time

Are you linked to carzone in any way, seasam?

seasam

Nope just giving my opinion