Sellers trying to hide the car being a write off.

[Herr Flick]

Over the last few months looking on pistonheads/autotrader etc i have noticed more and more that people are trying to hide the 'cat d' or 'insurance write off'

Here's an example
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...t/postcode/hp11aj/radius/100/page/9?logcode=p

Then they go onto saying that its the cheapest in the country etc...

Do they just hope people wont see it/check??

 

[tanker]

Prob a case of if they don't ask...... Etc. some stupid/gullible people out there so get away with it.

 

[Rich..]

This is nothing new they've been doing it for years, whenever I see a car that seems really cheap I naturally look straight to near the end of the write up for the Cat D bit.

 

[lemonnobby]

thats not even cheap

 

[bionic]

to be honest i would put the insurance cat d in the same place as its good to advertise the good things about the car first to gain the buyers interest and since insurance write off's are well over rated sometimes a car doesn't deserve to be wrote off

 

[bmh.01]

thats not even cheap

This.

 

[Adam G]

The one that gets me is when the ad goes a bit like this.
Clio 172 £995
T & T etc etc, bla bla bla you know the score.
Real price £1995
Just so it's at the top of the page.

 

[.Adam.]

The Megs have absolutely plummeted in price recently. Depressing for when it comes to selling mine.

 

[Herr Flick]

The one I posted is probably about £1k over priced.

 

[Adam.]

The one that gets me is when the ad goes a bit like this.
Clio 172 £995
T & T etc etc, bla bla bla you know the score.
Real price £1995
Just so it's at the top of the page.

I think on Auotrader it is so they don't have to pay 4x the amount to list it as cars under 1k are much cheaper to list.

 

[Ryanj]

You would be surprised, I would say probably 90% of people don't hpi check cars

 

[Budgie]

What's the problem?

He's advertised it as a Cat D..

 

[Craigus]

What's the problem?

He's advertised it as a Cat D..

This.

If you don't check it's your own fault. It's not illegal to not list it as a CAT D/C/whatever. A bit like a lot of old 172's have 8 - 10 owners, you don't see it listed in the add and some people may view that as a negative, same with write offs. The only reason I wouldn't buy one is because of the resale issues, if you can see it has been repaired to a high standard what is the problem?

 

[Silent_Scone]

Regardless of what the advert says always do a HPI check

 

[hobnob48]

What's the problem?

He's advertised it as a Cat D..

What he said: HPi CHECKED AND MILEAGE VERIFIED,INSURANCE CATEGORY D

 

[Herr Flick]

Hpi checked not Hpi clear...