Price on application

Daegerty

Why do people bother putting this down on websites?

Is there a genuine reason or just an excuse to try and get people on the phone so you can talk them up how good the car is first or try to sell them other stuff?

The one time I did call up they were able to give me a price straight away but I felt it was hugely overpriced. I cant help but think there is something hugely dodgy about this carry on. am I right or am I right?

Guy:Incognito

I skip straight past any ads with POA on them.

coylemj

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I skip straight past any ads with POA on them.

+1

Maybe for the likes of a Porsche or Bentley it's to deter tyre kickers from ringing up and offering half the asking price but I just bought a secondhand E200 last week, I spent several weeks scanning Donedeal and Carzone and skipped straight past any ads with '€POA' as the price, complete idiots!

Why do shops put price tags on items? It's so that you can study the merchandise without having the ask the sales assistant for the price of every item you're interested in, car dealers take note.

rachos89

+1 Bought my first car recently through an ad on Carzone, but I'd been looking for the "right" car for months and skipped all the POA ads, they just rule themselves out automatically from most potential buyers by putting that up IMO!

Guy:Incognito

coylemj wrote: »

+1

Maybe for the likes of a Porsche or Bentley .

I skip straight by them either way because they are usually at the opposite of of the price scale to what I'm looking for.

Our man in Havana

POA is something from the past when the only way to sell a car was thru the small ads in the local paper.
Even then it was a silly idea.

Wibbs

POA? = PFO.

Absurdum

Our man in Havana wrote: »

POA is something from the past when the only way to sell a car was thru the small ads in the local paper.
Even then it was a silly idea.

exactly, it makes me thing the seller isn't aware of this internet thing that gives buyers an idea of how much a car is really worth

johndaman66

coylemj wrote: »

Maybe for the likes of a Porsche or Bentley it's to deter tyre kickers from ringing up and offering half the asking price

I wouldn't particularly share your point of view there. Don't really see how POA would deter tyre kickers.

The one thing that would rise me more about a car ad than POA is somebody thoughtlessly describing a car as being in mint condition when it quite clearly insin't. Mint condition is as when minted or manufactured/ assembled in the case of a car or at least very close to that condition. So if you are one of those people and your car has a battered quarter panel, soon needs a new clutch and has a torn drivers seat then no, its not in mint condition! Its not like Toyota would let a car leave the factory with them kind of problems.

BostonB

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I skip straight past any ads with POA on them.

+1

You can filter them out by putting a min value on your search.

I don't get the logic. TBH.

the culture of deference

Not on carzone, if you want a specific year and price it takes all POA as under that value and includes them.

fm

i don't understand why people do poa on cars,this garage have all their cars without a price


http://www.carzone.ie/car-dealers/Cork/Kevin-O%27Leary-Group-Bandon?searchsource=browse&cacheBuster=1304336388790713

Mc Love

Its the same for houses! Never understand it!

blah

On searches on Carzone, I make sure to set Price Min at €1,000 so that POA doesn't show up.

As far as I'm concerned, it means that the seller isn't serious about selling.

bazz26

It usually says to me that their asking price is too high but don't want to put potential buyers off initalling who skim straight to the cheapest cars at the bottom of the list. All the POA cars are listed at the bottom on carzone. These days most people skim over anything that doesn't have a price listed too.

BTW I thought I read somewhere that carzone were cracking down on dealers displaying POA on adverts with them?

BostonB

the culture of deference wrote: »

Not on carzone, if you want a specific year and price it takes all POA as under that value and includes them.

For me any minimum value exculdes POA ads.

You must be doing something different.