What would put you off an advert?

Andy_Dublin

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

when im looking to buy a car, i always do a motorcheck before i leave to view it. in most cases €35 to motorcheck is a lot cheaper than the cost of a tank of fuel and a lunch somewhere when you travel to view a car. at least twice i can remember it saving my arse.

If you have arranged a viewing already maybe the seller would give you the reg over the phone before you left, that way he has screened the buyer himself and is comfortable to give the reg number out.

Most people will have different options/experiences selling cars, I have my way and I would rather protect my reg from cloning, thieves, burglars etc. A persons reg can lead to your details being obtained illegally, then house broken into and your car stolen you get the gist.

What people need to remember is that just because a reg is on display it does not mean it's a clean car. Eg. a persons house getting broken into and keys of a car are found and the car is stolen. Said thief goes onto donedeal finds the same year model and colour car, he then gets new plates made up and removes the discs. The only original identifying marker on the car is the chassis number. So you are a buyer see the reg on donedeal then do a Cartell or Motorcheck or whatever, you are led to believe it is all above board. This is the type of cloning I am refering to.

evolutionqy7

Don't really care cloning or not. Why should I waste my time to find out what your number plate is?

I'll simply go somewhere else. Doesn't matter if you accept that or not. I just don't want to make the effort of getting something from you that should be already on display. If you're selling a good car for reasonable money I doubt it will be up there long enough for some one to grab the number plate.

I could walk through my neighbour hood and probably pick up any common car number plate I want. I presume I should remove or cover my plates everything I'm not driving. Ech

Andy_Dublin

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Don't really care cloning or not. Why should I waste my time to find out what your number plate is?

I'll simply go somewhere else. Doesn't matter if you accept that or not. I just don't want to make the effort of getting something from you that should be already on display. If you're selling a good car for reasonable money I doubt it will be up there long enough for some one to grab the number plate.

I could walk through my neighbour hood and probably pick up any common car number plate I want. I presume I should remove or cover my plates everything I'm not driving. Ech

IMO did you not read that part? Don't buy cars that don't display regs that's your prerogative. I've never displayed a reg in any of my for sale ads and have never had a car for sale longer than a month. Make of that what you will. If you ever want to buy an exclusive car and the market is quite small and none of the sellers display the reg of the exact car you want then you will disregard them, hence you can't get the car you want "just because you can't see the reg plate in the ad".

Hard luck mate. You just didn't get to buy an exclusive car because you weren't bothered to get the reg yourself, your loss.

Looking for my next car already (well, won't be buying for a little while yet, but just taking regular mooches through DoneDeal/CarZone when I'm free or bored).

I'd be among the group who feel a blanked-out license plate is something to hide. puts me off an advert straight away (but then again, I'm not exactly looking at 'high end' cars). I get put off by UK reg cars too (don't ask me why this is another reason I prefer not to care for cars with blanked reg plates).

That and 'mint' or 'excellent condition' etc. and an obvious bit of damage/scrapes in the photos lead me to think the person doesn't really care about taking care of the car. I'd view these ads as the kind of thing that you'll turn up to view the car and there'll be loads of small things wrong with the car cosmetically (not that I've a major issue with that, but I'd rather the honesty in advance).


Out from that nothing really puts me off at all.

NIMAN

Sorry ladies, but "one lady owner" always sets my alarm bells ringing.
I think its meant to be a positive, as the car is likely to be easily driven, but I have been in a few cars where the 'lady' doesn't seem to know how the gears work, and I would say the wear-and-tear on them would be a lot higher than it should be.

php-fox

Idbatterim wrote: »

I far prefer also buying from an Irish person...

You wouldn't have a problem selling your car to a foreigner, would you? Why is it different the other way around?

teednab-el

1. Not keeping the photos of the car in question the same, (i.e seeing some of the photos of the car taken in sunlight and one photo taken in the snow).
2. Photos of car taken in grass or sand.
3. Lady owner, what does that mean? Hardly a reason for me to buy car.
4. "Drives like new" in other words it doesnt .

sean1141

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Adverts with no pictures, just one picture or no interior picture.

Adverts with no sell price.

Adverts with no contact name or just "seller".

Adverts with the number plate blocked. (but its often still ofter visable on the NCT disc photo)

Adverts with the line "Lady owner" yet the contact name is Mick. Do you have gender issues?

Adverts with no e-mail contact facility. I like to e-mail a list with a few small and quick questions before ringing.

Adverts where they spell the actual name of the car incorrectly. VW pasat!?! fcuk sake....

Adverts where they have not bothered their arse to even wash the damn car or hoover it out. If you care that little about the car when trying to sell it then Gods know what you have done to it over the past few years owning it.

There are more that get on my t1ts too but I can't think of right now...

antodeco wrote: »

For me, not having an email address as well as "no texters" puts me right off. I do like to send an email with a few questions first, then Ill arrange to meet or call. Its a little easier that way, as if they person you are ringing isint free, you will just get fobbed off answers.

Every time I have put up a car or anything else up for sale with an email contact i get spammed with stupid scam messages. I have no problem with anyone texting though.

Then some people don't have access to email all day every day or got someone to put up the add so they wont have an email up.

Nothing really puts me off an add. I usually have my make model trim and colours picked before I browse so my choices are limited. Plus I tend to go for rarer cars so that limits my choice even more!

solas111

Saw an ad in the shop today for a '98 Toyota Starlet and two things made me remember it. Firstly, the car was described as "4 dore" and secondly it was priced at €1,500, which is a pretty optimistic price for such a car.

bigroad

I hate when they say,NEED GONE, If They need it gone so much ,why dont they just leave the keys in the ignition and some one will take it away for them.

NIMAN

"No offers".

Yeah, so do you really think anyone is going to give you exactly what you are looking for?
Get real.

Duckjob

"Only ever used for school runs"

Uh huh...So you're telling me it's done the hardest type of milage a car can do...

dr.fuzzenstein

Idbatterim wrote: »

so much! poor photos, poor spelling, no name on advert i.e "call seller", poor description, , this will sound ridiculous, but people selling higher end cars, when I see an 085 number... I far prefer also buying from an Irish person, sick of hearing the "selling for a mother, brother, uncle" bla bla bla. DL reg in particular.

I'd rather buy from a foreigner, most countries are familiar with the concepts of storing a car in a garage where it belongs and proper maintenance.
Here the belief is that sunlight is bad for the engine, servicing is a waste of money and a garage is where you store E50 worth of crap and let the car rot in the drive.
A lot of Irish people will buy a car, keep it for three years, never open the bonnet and sell it on for silly money as "mint condition", "drives like new" and "full service history", which means the book was stamped and that's about it.

teednab-el

"No stupid offers" is another one that turns me off. It paints a bad picture of the seller and points out the sellers greedy. Do you want to sell your car yes or no? If yes then you dont expect someone to pay the asking price surely.

"Polished every week" is another classic. As if people had nothing else to do every weekend than spending hours polishing a car and it has to be a poor rushed job if so. I would believe it more if it said "polished every month" way more realistic.

Saying stuff in the ad like, "serviced each time before it was due service etc". That usually means it was done once and probably wasnt done other times.

"High spec" "including electric windows and alloys" surely in the day of age, that should be under "mandatory spec".

"Remapped to 200BHP from 170 BHP" in other words the ****e has being driven out of it.

"Can do 60mpg if driven easy" what way have you being driving it?


German style number plates or yellow irsh reg number plates.

Going get in trouble here but it puts me off. Cars for sale on an ad whos owners are from Kerry or Donegal, having big alloys over 18' and lowered suspension, body kit, twin exhausts etc. With the bad roads that usually means trouble.

Viper_JB

Any Advert where the car is parked in a lake or river, I'd never buy the car or have any interest in it, but damn they make for funny ads to look at...

challengemaster

teednab-el wrote: »

"Polished every week" is another classic. As if people had nothing else to do every weekend than spending hours polishing a car and it has to be a poor rushed job if so. I would believe it more if it said "polished every month" way more realistic.

You may want to take a better look around the forum.... :pac: Where's Metzgermeister when you need him

Viper_JB

challengemaster wrote: »

You may want to take a better look around the forum.... :pac: Where's Metzgermeister when you need him

It'd be more like waxed every week though, if you were to polish every week...after a year you'd probably be down to just metal.

ukonline

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ivanc

Good example of how to do it right.

Good images. Good description. Good Price.

Car sold in four days.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4824089

NobodyImportant

teednab-el wrote: »

Saying stuff in the ad like, "serviced each time before it was due service etc". That usually means it was done once and probably wasnt done other times.

Not always, I always service the wifes car using the "severe conditions" in the service book, rather than "normal conditions", so its serviced twice as often and parts are replaced before time. So it does happen and i do tend to advertise that when i sell the car.

giant_midget

NobodyImportant wrote: »

Not always, I always service the wifes car using the "severe conditions" in the service book, rather than "normal conditions", so its serviced twice as often and parts are replaced before time. So it does happen and i do tend to advertise that when i sell the car.

"Timing belt and water pump done yesterday"

Wow really? very kind of you to pump 600 euro into the car before you let it go.

listermint

ivanc wrote: »

Good example of how to do it right.

Good images. Good description. Good Price.

Car sold in four days.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4824089

That and V70's sell faster than you can get your GF knickers down in your teens.

teednab-el

NobodyImportant wrote: »

Not always, I always service the wifes car using the "severe conditions" in the service book, rather than "normal conditions", so its serviced twice as often and parts are replaced before time. So it does happen and i do tend to advertise that when i sell the car.

The evidence of that will be seen in service receipts. If they cant be produced then i dont believe it and its the sellers word against the buyers thoughts.

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Dog guards or anything that might suggest animals have been rolling around in it - like a calf hoof print through the boot floor or something that looks suspiciously like manure down the side of the handbrake.

Photographs of stained seats, or blurred photographs of the seats.

Also whacking great big caravan hitches.

Adverts where details in the title are not consistent with the description or photographs.

hackney on the pictured disc.

photographs date stamped 4 or 5 years ago

€7950 for a car with near on 200,000 miles :eek:

5 owners.

Quick sale due to owner emigrating (which might well be legitimate, but how many scams are based on this pretext..)

On the blocking out of regs thing though that would have put me off, until I tried to sell a car that I eventually kept, and then got a Garda notice alleging to be for it for somewhere it had never been :mad: And it wasn't a prestige car, it was a bog standard old heap. So, now I understand. No regs in any future adverts for me. If somebody wants to clone a car I'm selling in the future, they'll have to get up off their arse and go walkies to do it.

And whats with the 'no private numbers' thing ? I don't understand. It's none of their business whether my number is private or not :rolleyes:

NIMAN

" ... just out of England".


and this means what exactly? Is this meant to be a great thing?

M44B19

Great yoke for the lakes.

djimi

Not wrote: »

Quick sale due to owner emigrating (which might well be legitimate, but how many scams are based on this pretext..)

These kind of things annoy me not so much because I think they might be dodgy but more so because I simply dont care. Good for you if you are leaving the country/having a baby etc, but stop wasting my time with useless information and use the space on the ad to put up more relevant information about the car.

It doesnt help that the clown who has put up "quick sale due to blah blah blah" will probably be the same seller who wont take a penny less than the asking price for their overpriced pile of scrap.

NobodyImportant

"must go this week". Well then price it a grand less than the other cars you muppet!

Chris_Heilong

Diesel BMW/AUDI/VW :pac:

keithclancy

Arty pictures with Instagram or Sideways far away pics ..

FFS just show me the car :pac::pac: