Autotrader should do more...

Hoof_Hearted

to stop obvious scammers like this:

http://www.autotrader

All the ads take the same form -- vastly underpriced cars and an email address.

The one below is a wreck and is £500 more.

Hoof_Hearted

Copied from this ebay ad:
http://www.ebay.co.uk

DUTR

I don't get what your gripe is? Is it because it's under priced?

Hoof_Hearted

Obviously not. It's because some mug will lose money to a scammer and it could be prevented by Autotrader monitoring the ads it receives.

DUTR

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

Obviously not. It's because some mug will lose money to a scammer and it could be prevented by Autotrader monitoring the ads it receives.

I'm sure there is a facility to report ads, that often get removed with no chance of a refund, I'm sure when you ring the guy he will say it should be £13k not £3k.

Hoof_Hearted

It's not a pricing error, it's a scam. There are many similar ones on Autotrader.

Read more about it here.

DUTR

By the way that number is for someone at the University.

agrinnall

The wording in that ad would put me off, claims to be a trade seller then says "This car was owned by me but drived (sic) by my mother". I haven't advertised anything on Autotrader since we went all online, but I'd image ads are now posted with very little, if any, interaction with Autotrader. Which may be why they have a big !Report button, have you pressed it?

Johnmcl7

I agree, they have all the car details the person has put in for the advert so it should be easy to flag up those that are being sold at a price well under what the car is worth.

John

Hoof_Hearted

Yes, I reported it but I shouldn't have to.

Hoof_Hearted

If you want to see how it works with this car, read here.