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carzone ad

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  • 18-01-2009 2:02pm
    #1
    tw0nk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭


    just saw carzone.ie ad on tv. It's pretty good, simple, to the point and of good quality. Nice to see a decent ad for Irish car industry after shocking simi ads


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    if only carzone wasn't such a pain to use now for private sellers and if they cleaned up their act and got rid of all those scammers and if, and if ...:D


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    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Carzone don't need bloody advertising. Everyone knows about them.

    What they need to do is be realistic, should of stayed with what they had.

    They had a monopoly, and they messed it up for themselves. Let them waste there money on tv adds.


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    NewApproach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭NewApproach


    Limerick man wrote: »
    Carzone don't need bloody advertising. Everyone knows about them.

    Wouldn't necessarily agree with that LM, only people with a knowledge of cars would definitely know about them. I would have thought the general public would be more familiar with Auto Trader, seeing as it is in the newsagents.


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    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    NewApproach wrote: »
    Wouldn't necessarily agree with that LM, only people with a knowledge of cars would definitely know about them. I would have thought the general public would be more familiar with Auto Trader, seeing as it is in the newsagents.

    I haven't come arcoss one person, that when buying a car doesn't know about carzone. They have a huge market. As they said before, they had the highest amounts of views etc. etc.


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    NewApproach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭NewApproach


    Limerick man wrote: »
    I haven't come arcoss one person, that when buying a car doesn't know about carzone. They have a huge market. As they said before, they had the highest amounts of views etc. etc.

    Well fair enough, I suppose you must know more about it than me seeing as how you are in the business... I just would have thought alot of not-very-technically-minded people (i.e. elder people who don't use the internet much) wouldn't have heard of it.


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    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    NewApproach wrote: »
    Well fair enough, I suppose you must know more about it than me seeing as how you are in the business... I just would have thought alot of not-very-technically-minded people (i.e. elder people who don't use the internet much) wouldn't have heard of it.

    You would be surprised. Of course there is the odd fella that still looks throught the autotrader. I'm waiting for people to come on here now and say "Oh i never heard of carzone" etc. etc.

    They had a great market, and they would have put everyone else out of business if they stayed the way they were.


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,250 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Before carzone was taken over by Autotrader they had the online car advertising market in Ireland cornered. Everyone used it, these days they broke what didn't need fixing.

    I don't bother using the carzone site anymore as it has become too user unfriendly imo. I used www.driving.ie instead, that still uses the old cazone search engine.

    I think the fact that carzone are now advertising on tv gives you an idea that they are no longer the preferred choice they once were.


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    lifer_sean
    Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭lifer_sean


    Limerick man wrote: »
    They had a great market, and they would have put everyone else out of business if they stayed the way they were.
    bazz26 wrote: »
    Before carzone was taken over by Autotrader they had the online car advertising market in Ireland cornered. Everyone used it, these days they broke what didn't need fixing.

    I completly agree with you guys. They had a basic but effective search engine that was just fine, and it worked perfectly well on dial-up. The new one is terrible - too complicated and too slow. They added the "SIMI only" button - that really p1ssed me off. And they were affordable - 30 euro until sold but now 40 euro for first 28 days and 25 euro per 28 days after. I'm just after paying 130 euro to put two cars up on carzone with the special offer of a week advert in autotrader - I don't know why I bother with the autotrader magazine as I never get any calls.

    About two months ago I heard a rumour in the trade that the SIMI are preparing their own members-only website. Don't know if that is true. Anyone else hear anything ?

    Give us back the old Carzone please !!!!


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    Einstein
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Einstein


    here here
    the old way was perfect...i went on yesterday for the first time and logged off bout 30 seconds later...wont be back


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    #11
    0325422
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭0325422


    so which do people think is the sest to sell a car fast.. i could really do with selling my car in the next 2 weeks.. its a 08, i presume ill be taking A massive loss anyway


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