Carzone and boredom - A dangerous mix!

Mr Benevolent

I spent most of the weekend trawling Carzone for something in my budget that won't donate too much cash to the insurance company (even though I don't have a car or a full licence at 29) All in all I've spent about 6 hours today searching and finding some interesting bargains. I'm not regular poster to Motors but do follow your adventures fairly close. How many of you spend more than a couple of hours a week either on here or Carzone?

Par72

Confab wrote: »

I spent most of the weekend trawling Carzone for something in my budget that won't donate too much cash to the insurance company (even though I don't have a car or a full licence at 29) All in all I've spent about 6 hours today searching and finding some interesting bargains. I'm not regular poster to Motors but do follow your adventures fairly close. How many of you spend more than a couple of hours a week either on here or Carzone?

I spend a good bit of time on it. I am mostly looking for something specific but it always seems to be just above my budget! Many hours have been wasted away on Carzone.

enviro

Many people do i bet, burns a bit of time if you are not up to much else. So you going to share the bargains you found?

bikki

I do the same also, then i compare the prices to Pistonheads and remind myself why il never buy Irish again.

L-M

I frequent here and carzone a good bit... The life of a car enthusiast:pac::cool:

woop

Limerick man wrote: »

I frequent here and carzone a good bit... The life of a car enthusiast:pac::cool:

yeh a lad in college was giving out to me bout his roomate(into cars) buying the auto trader..........couldnt understand it said the pictures were too small etc.......didnt have the heart to tell him Ive bought the buy and sell on occasion

draycottgirlz

bikki wrote: »

I do the same also, then i compare the prices to Pistonheads and remind myself why il never buy Irish again.

took the words outa my mouth....(though Pistonheads isn't even the best value...)


Spend too much time on car related searches/sites.
If you need any help or advice your more then welcome to drop me a pm

CharlieCroker

On here the whole time cos I'm sad!!!!

Spent many a happy hour on Autotrader.co.uk and pistonheads dreaming of what might be!!

CianRyan

I am ALWAYS on both!

Picking out my future cars, and then over to octane.ie to look up the roads I'm going to take it on.


I really need to get my licence...

Holsten

Check out each multiple times a day.

Can easily waste hours upon hours looking at cars I'd love to buy.

alo1587

I could trawl autotrader.co.uk for hours on end.And I'm not specifically looking for a car to buy, just seeing whats out there really and comparing prices etc.Its a dangerous hobby if you've got a ball of cash burning a hole in your pocket though!!

Anan1

bikki wrote: »

I do the same also, then i compare the prices to Pistonheads and remind myself why il never buy Irish again.

That makes no sense. Sometimes it's cheaper to import a car, sometimes it's cheaper to buy here.

bikki

Anan1 wrote: »

That makes no sense. Sometimes it's cheaper to import a car, sometimes it's cheaper to buy here.

Depends on what sort of cars your into. The majority of cars that i would be into would be cheaper to import myself.

Atomic Pineapple

Used to but cant stand the new layout so I use http://www.driving.ie instead, I do spend a lot of time on here, on adverts.ie and do be on a lot of other cars sites like http://itr-dc2.com http://www.iroc.com http://www.sxoc.co.uk

I do waste loads of time in college when I should be doing my 4th year project! :rolleyes:

Anan1

bikki wrote: »

Depends on what sort of cars your into. The majority of cars that i would be into would be cheaper to import myself.

No matter what way you look at it, it makes no sense whatsoever to rule Irish cars out. The best way to bag a bargain is to cast your net as wide as possible - excluding any market can only work against the buyer.

bikki

Ok il give you that, the way things are at the momment some lads in the isdc club have been selling there Scoobys at some shocking prices, due to them losing there jobs.

But a year ago i would of stood by what i said about not buying Irish.

Mc Love

Yep or on autocar looking at reviews

Drummerboy08

Anan1 wrote: »

No matter what way you look at it, it makes no sense whatsoever to rule Irish cars out. The best way to bag a bargain is to cast your net as wide as possible - excluding any market can only work against the buyer.

+1 on that one.

I work in the trade, so 99% of my day is spent on driving.ie. Mainly because its fairly quiet, and it makes me look like im doing something.:D

Anan1

bikki wrote: »

Ok il give you that, the way things are at the momment some lads in the isdc club have been selling there Scoobys at some shocking prices, due to them losing there jobs.

But a year ago i would of stood by what i said about not buying Irish.

Come on, bikki, completely excluding Irish cars never made any sense, not a year ago, not at 9.29pm last night, not now!;)

Quazzie

Carzone is down for maintenance. WTF am I gonna do for an hour now??

Anan1

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Carzone is down for maintenance. WTF am I gonna do for an hour now??

Try CBG, should keep you going for a little bit at least. Otherwise, I find eBay.co.uk good for burning up a few hours.

Mr Benevolent

Thaks guys, at least I'm not alone in my madness

BnA

When I'm facking around on the internet looking at cars, the 4 sites that I would have open would be..

eBay (uk- Not ie)
Autotrader
Revenue.ie (for a quick VRT calculation)
Carzone (for Irish Comparission)

One of my favourite searches on eBay would be, Cars under £1,000, with no reserve, sorted in order of ending soonest. You often see a few bargins slipping buy. You often end up buying one or two in a rush of blood to the head too (I have a 1992 MR2 gathering dust (and rust) outside my house since November. Although it should finally get some love this week.)

bazz26

Carzone.ie, a car enthusiat's porn site.

McSpud

Most expensive cars on the site

555k euro DB6 surely a typo?

550k euro Rolls Royce! Only 621m & 1 owner! :pac:

Anan1

McSpud wrote: »

550k euro Rolls Royce! Only 621m & 1 owner! :pac:

And still on yellow plates!

peasant

Anan1 wrote: »

And still on yellow plates!

but, but, but ...they're white ....:pac:


(SCNR):D

Mr Benevolent

550k euro Rolls Royce!

Now there's a job for the VRT experts