Car Ad Pet Peeve

[Navarone]

the v6 too probably

That's the really "rare" one huh?

[kickinindian]

Response to my ad for my 318i. "It's a 6 cylinder right?" No, the 318i is a 4 cylinder. "Oh I was looking for a 6." Great.

the v6 too probably

[Navarone]

Response to my ad for my 318i. "It's a 6 cylinder right?" No, the 318i is a 4 cylinder. "Oh I was looking for a 6." Great.

[cwatt]

+1 for the sight-unseen text "what's your bottom line?"

I once replied to a guy with a higher number than my asking price. When he wrote back saying 'but you're asking ____', I replied 'oh, good point. That much then.' lol

[Dozyproductions]

Okay, in california at least the seller is responsible for smog. So many ads in craigslist say, "all it needs is to pass smog". = It won't pass smog, I'll tell you it will, you won't know that till you buy it, I have plenty of other people who will buy this car that will gladly figure that out for themselves.

[Navarone]

That damn cold air intake is stupid when they remove the piping from the factory intake that actually sucks in cold air and put a crappy cone filter that sucks in engine bay hot air. Idiots.

[FireFight]

-"needs new valve cover gasket, comes with one"
- when they dont leave a phone number and dont reply to emails
-"these aren't the real pictures of the car but its the same color"
-"cold air intake" cone filter on stock location
-"bring your own wheels"

[Navarone]

Car Ad Pet Peeve

I hate it when they can't be bothered to pull the car away from whatever object (other car, garage, trash can) is block it, so they take half assed shots of part of the car instead.

Oh man that's annoying. Even worse is taking a pic at night out of their house window of a car 100 feet away!!

Take fucking pictures.

Not one picture. Many. There are many aspects to a car that should be considered.

Don't cover your plate with your thumb, paper, cardboard, penis, whatever. It's stupid.

But not too many pics!! There's no use to have 20 pics of the seats god damn it!! If you can't show an entire car in the 12-24 pics standard then you're an idiot.

[slammin.e28]

Take fucking pictures.

Not one picture. Many. There are many aspects to a car that should be considered.

Don't cover your plate with your thumb, paper, cardboard, penis, whatever. It's stupid.

[bmwman91]

I was selling something on CL once and had "FIRM price" in the listing. Some dude tried to haggle me over email anyway, and when I told him that firm meant firm he sent me some badly written diatribe about how it is "customary" to barter on CL. It was actually pretty lulzy because his name was Sanjeep or something and I could imagine his voice as I read his long email explaining to me how CL works.

Other than that, as a buyer it it insane how many listings have no mileage, tranny info or, particularly annoying, stock photos from (presumably) marketing material rather than photos of the actual car being sold.

[Julien]

I hate it when they can't be bothered to pull the car away from whatever object (other car, garage, trash can) is block it, so they take half assed shots of part of the car instead.

[rcsoundn1]

"Adult owned" arrive to see car, and its trashed, so what did the "Adult owned" comment mean??

[BobombETA]

"No Check Engine Light"

drive to see car.

"Oh the check engine light is on? that must be new."

[Sine Qua Non]

"Clear Title" on CL Ad is checked when they don't even have a title at all.

[ajhostetter]

Good thread left on the tires

Or ads with no contact info




On the flip side, when I'm selling something and someone asks "what's the lowest you'll take?"

+1 for the sight-unseen text "what's your bottom line?"