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.

[uktrailmonster]

Puddenchucker said:

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

[ambuletz]

uktrailmonster said:

Puddenchucker said:

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

"Warning Buzzer and Light for Front Seat Belts if Unfastened"

shut up and take my money!!
however...

"Clutch - Brake and Accelerator"

It's meant to be an auto?

[Lester H]

Mr Squarekins said:

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

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

I assume that the seller wishes to imply that the doctor, with a science background and a fair income will be likely to maintain a car. However, the opposite could apply, the doctor could be careless in the knowledge that he can pay his/ her way out of problems. Same with show biz and ‘ personalities’, of course.

[uktrailmonster]

Lester H said:

I assume that the seller wishes to imply that the doctor, with a science background and a fair income will be likely to maintain a car. However, the opposite could apply, the doctor could be careless in the knowledge that he can pay his/ her way out of problems. Same with show biz and ‘ personalities’, of course.

Yeah, they probably wouldn’t mention if the previous owner was a rock band drummer

[dhutch]

mac96 said:

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!

So much of this!

[66HFM]

I get fed up with all of the AI adverts on Autotrader telling me very general info about the type of car that I'm looking at rather than info around service history, number of owners, has it been smoked in, cold air con etc...

I'm interested in that type of car that's why I'm looking at it!

[dhutch]

Time to start charging per-word again!