Autotrader - excluding/blocking Cinch

Wonka_2

I’m currently looking for a replacement car and want to be able to view given the plethora of options (and Covid spec cars). When I search on Autotrader the first couple of pages are cars from Cinch available with a mile (because they’ll deliver to my local WBAC site) which leaves me trawling for the non-Cinch cars that are physically available to view. 

Any suggestions on how to exclude/block these ? 

Stateofart

They are annoying but it's only a couple of pages worth at most.

Johnmcl7

You can put -cinch in the keywords box and it should remove them so it can be helpful for saved searches but a bit of a pain having to put in each time when doing manual searches.  I don't know why Autotrader allow Cinch to distort the distance results the way they do as it's irritating it keep showing cars that are not local.

Wonka_2

Johnmcl7 said:

You can put -cinch in the keywords box and it should remove them so it can be helpful for saved searches but a bit of a pain having to put in each time when doing manual searches.  I don't know why Autotrader allow Cinch to distort the distance results the way they do as it's irritating it keep showing cars that are not local.

Every day’s a school day - and yes ‘-cinch’ does exactly what I need. 

There are times (I.e from a main dealer/approved used) where I might be happy with a remote purchase but despite its promises Cinch doesn’t fall under the ‘trustworthy’ banner for me and the prices aren’t attractive enough to make the risk worthwhile. 

Needless to say a question to Autotrader asking the same thing elicited no response 

forgotmyname

Johnmcl7 said:

I don't know why Autotrader allow Cinch to distort the distance results the way they do as it's irritating it keep showing cars that are not local.

I wonder if it's the same reason they blocked a lot of the search features a long time ago?   Guaranteed every Friday evening scammers would

list cars a LOT cheaper than everything else, often with the same pictures and contact details as main dealers but in the advert it said
contact via email or by a mobile number.  These were very easy to find and report in bulk but then they suddenly prevented the search
option that I used and then blocked google from caching the pages so I could use that to search instead of their own..

All blocked which seemed a strange thing to do, block ways to report scammers?   Did not make sense?

mr_accountant

Also add -carsa to the list very annoying and cars that claim to be within ten miles are hundreds of miles away

Owen62

Thank you "Johnmcl7" - brilliant tip....

Cinch, Carsa etc were driving me mad with unwanted ads.  I also tried with other tags i.e. -white and no white cars are displayed.  This has made my searches much more relevant.  Thank you.

Johnmcl7

Owen62 said:

Thank you "Johnmcl7" - brilliant tip....

Cinch, Carsa etc were driving me mad with unwanted ads.  I also tried with other tags i.e. -white and no white cars are displayed.  This has made my searches much more relevant.  Thank you.

Glad it was helpful for you as well since for me it was making distance based searches useless since it was showing all these cars that are not local to me. I've been hoping auto trader would stop allowing them to do it but doesn't seem to be happening

Johnmcl7

Owen62 said:

Thank you "Johnmcl7" - brilliant tip....

Cinch, Carsa etc were driving me mad with unwanted ads.  I also tried with other tags i.e. -white and no white cars are displayed.  This has made my searches much more relevant.  Thank you.

Glad it was helpful for you as well since for me it was making distance based searches useless since it was showing all these cars that are not local to me. I've been hoping auto trader would stop allowing them to do it but doesn't seem to be happening