TrickTT Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 Decent size adverts at a reasonable price. 40ish words and a pic the size of a postage stamp for anywhere up to 50 quid if you put it in the magasine as well is a rip off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JODY T Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 How reasonable is £0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted April 2, 2006 Author Share Posted April 2, 2006 How reasonable is £0 LOL..... I rekon my biggest problem will be people NOT believeing its free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKIVDreamer Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 I think you should make every picture advertising a car for sale have a loaf shot. That way you won't get flooded with thousands of phantoms from trade sellers wanting some free advertising/hook into their dealer site etc? Just a thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_y3k Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 a date added field ... with autotrader i fnid the web adverts are added after the paper copy, so alot of the time you lose out to people who bought the paper copy. mind yuo if everythign is web based thats not an issue i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 It would be good if it doesn't freeze up when you get to page 10 in the search like autotrader does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 I think you should make every picture advertising a car for sale have a loaf shot. That way you won't get flooded with thousands of phantoms from trade sellers wanting some free advertising/hook into their dealer site etc? Just a thought Could you explain... not sure what you mean... ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 It would be good if it doesn't freeze up when you get to page 10 in the search like autotrader does Interesting. it will be on a cluster of 3 dedicated servers so we should have enough search power! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 could definately do with having maybe a seperate site for parts.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JODY T Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 Hey thats my idea.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 could definately do with having maybe a seperate site for parts.. NOt sure what you mean, Don't I already onw Mkivstore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JODY T Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 Think he meant second hand parts us lot have to sell lol Bit like http://www.breakersyard.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKIVDreamer Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Could you explain... not sure what you mean... ta I think one of the risks associated with providing free advertising is that you can end up getting a large amount of advertisements placed by people who are actually traders, without actually having the car in the advertisement on their books (phantoms). It would be good to be able to determine if the pictures in the advertisement were legitimate - hence the "loaf shot". Perhaps a loaf of bread isn't appropriate for a commercial venture, however there maybe other suitable alternatives... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted April 4, 2006 Author Share Posted April 4, 2006 I think one of the risks associated with providing free advertising is that you can end up getting a large amount of advertisements placed by people who are actually traders, without actually having the car in the advertisement on their books (phantoms). It would be good to be able to determine if the pictures in the advertisement were legitimate - hence the "loaf shot". Perhaps a loaf of bread isn't appropriate for a commercial venture, however there maybe other suitable alternatives... Yes I had been pondering this one, but still not sure what a loaf shot is and how it woudl help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKIVDreamer Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 loaf shot - well, I'm not entirely sure of the origins - I think its been referenced regarding a claim to own a particular car, its been discussed on here before... The long and short of it is that when people introduce themselves on the Internet and provide pictures, there is no way of knowing whether the pictures are of the person (or indeed their claimed object), so a picture must be obtained of the person with a loaf of bread on their head - thus eliminating the suspicion that the picture may not be of the person in question. So, loaf shots for cars could actually include a loaf of bread, or a can of beans etc (I think this is actually where it originated from). You could even insist on there being a proper loaf shot just so that you can compile your own collection of loafs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffvalenti Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 LOL..... I rekon my biggest problem will be people NOT believeing its free. Well I'd still want a refund, if I'd booked for 4 weeks and the car sold after 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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