carzone opinions please

Brabus · 23-10-2008 10:56pm

Just to add my tuppence worth...

A few alternatives worth looking at

www.carsireland.ie/

www.carhost.ie/

www.carsforsaleireland.ie/

www.carlist.ie/

www.cars24.ie/ (Beta version, cos its only new on the scene)

Along with CBG.ie and autotrader, not forgettin the good 'ol buy and sell.

I'd only bother dealing with these from now on.

This reminds me of when The Irish Times website was subscription only and eventually they had to cave in and make it free cos no-one paid up.

That my friends is what we must do with carzone and make them see the error of their ways...

Two chances of that happening!!!

RedorDead · 23-10-2008 11:23pm

spadder wrote: »

Ok, Try looking for a 07 transit from a private seller.
I bought a few work vans from it before. The site used to have a good commercial section, easy to access etc, why should I now jump through hoops? sod it, Im off to ebay.

Fair enough - commercials a joke. Why launch the whole site if some sections arent ready?

Max_Damage · 23-10-2008 11:24pm

Well they bollocksed up that website nicely.

Don't fix something if it's not broken.

CrowdedHouse · 24-10-2008 8:50am

Maybe it's just me but when I click on a car,none of the photos show in Firefox,have to switch to IE

Max_Damage · 24-10-2008 9:41am

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Maybe it's just me but when I click on a car,none of the photos show in Firefox,have to switch to IE

Works for me.

ShayK1 · 24-10-2008 9:49am

caesar wrote: »

Was suppose to reply earlier, but boards was broke!

Anyway don’t know how that happened, I must have changed my sig without saving the changes or something. I feel like a right fool now :o

Changed now!

Thanks

I have the same car in green. Hope she sells for you. I'll be letting mine go soon too.

pburns · 24-10-2008 10:00am

I'm already becoming nostalgic about Carzone as a Celtic Tiger phenomonen. It seems quite apt that the information architecture has gone to **** just as the bubble is bursting and the whole 'car pornography' browsing we all subscribed to becomes more an exercise in futile day-dreaming...

Actually there's probably a case for a good s/h car site now more than ever!

I thought about developing some sort of car-related site last year but couldn't think of an angle and reckoned Carzone was untouchable on the Irish market...

cbyrne · 24-10-2008 10:05am

Brabus wrote: »

Just to add my tuppence worth...

A few alternatives worth looking at

www.carsireland.ie/

www.carhost.ie/

www.carsforsaleireland.ie/

www.carlist.ie/

www.cars24.ie/ (Beta version, cos its only new on the scene)
QUOTE]

'nuther new one to add to the list, works differently though as lets you request your new car and trade your old one. Also, doesn't show your email or phone number to the general public, avoid cold colds/scams.

www.cartrades.ie

Big Nasty · 24-10-2008 10:59am

To be fair it's not that bad, takes a bit of getting used to and there are certainly more clicks involved in finding what you want. A few teething problems too but I'm sure they'll be ironed out.

More user friendly alternatives :

www.cbg.ie
www.whatcar.ie

SV · 24-10-2008 11:03am

When you have it arranged by price and you click on a link..when you go back you have to rearrange it by price all over again, likewise if you have a keyword entered..enter it again..

The new design is absolute muck. Horrible horrible site and there's not 2 ways about it.. it isn't one of these "get used to it" type things..it's just crap.

shaywest · 24-10-2008 1:24pm

the same fool must have been let loose on the buyandsell website as well recently,thats all messed up as well

ciaran76 · 24-10-2008 4:12pm

Its back to normal for me in the last 20 mins or so !!!

fletch · 24-10-2008 4:31pm

ciaran76 wrote: »

Its back to normal for me in the last 20 mins or so !!!

Not for me

ciarsd · 24-10-2008 4:38pm

It's shockingly gimmicky and non-user friendly. I'm still using carzone.ie/usedcars

Especially when searching the likes of a 3-5 series BMW... they're all jumbled in together unless you take time doing an advanced search, then your always wondering if you've been too specific and eliminated some potential cars...

Mr. Presentable · 24-10-2008 4:44pm

ShayK1 wrote: »

www.motornet.ie looks good. Somebody mentioned it in the other carzone thread. haven't used it much yet but it's similiar to the old carzone.

Well it does say "powered by carzone.ie"

Johnny Drama · 24-10-2008 4:56pm

Can't even find a Jaguar XF in the list of models - earlier in the week there were 4! WTF?

ciarsd · 24-10-2008 5:08pm

Johnny Drama wrote: »

Can't even find a Jaguar XF in the list of models - earlier in the week there were 4! WTF?

Try this link

Created using carzone.ie/usedcars

Lex Luthor · 24-10-2008 8:23pm

ciarsd wrote: »

Try this link

Created using carzone.ie/usedcars

beat me to it Ciaran....

flyweight · 30-10-2008 1:15am

I know (had a sneak preview) of a new Irish built site coming online in the next few months. It is using more web2.0 technology and a sophisticated search engine...more differnt than anything thats out there and server side (ie. not overdoing it on the AJAX). ....hope its does well. Using it on test data i was able to find a specific make in seconds. In fact its a lot more a long the lines of a "traditional" search engine, than a built up live SQL query. .

Tropheus · 30-10-2008 1:43am

It's terrible. I use it regularly as a browser and now couldn't be bothered as it's so frustrating. Are they on drugs?

Orlee · 30-10-2008 2:32pm

I mailed them as well

It's really really bad and it would have been my only port of call previously!

Some might find it better but I'm thinking the majority will find it much more difficult to navigate.

ClioV6 wrote:

When you have it arranged by price and you click on a link..when you go back you have to rearrange it by price all over again, likewise if you have a keyword entered..enter it again..

you have to click on "Return to my search results" on the top left hand corner of the screen rather than the back button! Really annoying!!!!

Speedy007 · 30-10-2008 2:45pm

I was a regular viewer of Carzone, but hate the new site - very user unfriendly. CBG for me from now on

ShayK1 · 30-10-2008 3:55pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

Well it does say "powered by carzone.ie"

oops. didn't notice that. As I said, I haven't used it much yet.

jonathan11 · 30-10-2008 4:10pm

used to be a big fan of carzone but not anymore.

The amount of mistakes in the data is very annoying, diesels showing up as petrols, 1.4 litres showing up as 14 litres. etc. etc. Filtering for a particular car will show up about half that you're looking for and the other half is random cars....

Owen · 30-10-2008 4:28pm

Jesus H Christ. The bikes have now all of a sudden moved to Autotrader.ie from Carzone. Who made that intelligent decision?

Don17 · 30-10-2008 5:02pm

It used to be a great site with everything on it , easy to find
Its a bloody mess now
too frustrating to use

superjosh9 · 30-10-2008 6:05pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! the link doesn't work anymore, you now get redirected to the new site.............................!

AHH this is awful, it's like watching Rocky V. I feel angry angry.

****ERS!

superjosh9 · 30-10-2008 6:08pm

omg just using the new site properly........ it's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo painful!!!!!!!! SLOW!!!!

No more carzone for me, it's too much.

CBG, not great either is it..

Whatcar · 31-10-2008 12:37am

It is dissapointing, before i built my site i thought CZ was v good but
they have gone the UK route thank god

. I will always keep my site
simple whatcar.ie is here for the long run

Whatcar · 31-10-2008 12:48am

try whatvan.ie for commercials and whatbike.ie for bikes we still do them all

oh and dont forget what4x4/suv :cool:

carzone opinions please

Comments