Auto Trader

Auto Trader

Auto trader was established some 20 years ago and since then has been a godsend to those looking to buy a second hand car at a bargain price. The Auto trader has a few different “sister” publications such as Bike trader, Truck Trader and Caravan Trader though the Auto trader is ... Read review

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AN EASY WAY TO PICK A BARGAIN...

Advantages: Quality of conten, value, range of vehicles, range of prices,avalability
Disadvantages: None

Auto trader was established some 20 years ago and since then has been a godsend to those looking to buy a second hand car at a bargain price. The Auto trader has a few different “sister” publications such as Bike trader, Truck Trader and Caravan Trader though the Auto trader is the most common of them all.

The Auto trader book varies across different regions i.e. the North edition is a lot shorter than the midlands edition ...
...Selling guide.

Auto trader has a buying and selling guide in the Midlands edition. This talks you through the ins and outs of buying and selling your car. This guide helps you decide what car to buy whether it be petrol or diesel whether to go for nearly new or a grey import etc. It will inform you about the registration changes which went ahead in September 2001 a registration identifier which helps you to put a year to a reg for ... more

wilsam00 10.11.2002
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Flog yer old nail

Advantages: Good regional coverage, photographers come to you
Disadvantages: Adverts can be expensive if you choose larger ones!

...advertising stands between the two. Auto Trader is one such publication, and is a name that most people are aware of. The advantage of the Auto Trader is that it is a national company, that publishes various regional editions. This enables the seller to reach more readers than their local area paper would attract, whilst ensuring that most readers are within a reasonable travelling distance. I’m not entirely sure how many different regions ...
...have combined them. The Auto Trader contains various sections, which enable the buyer to pin point the type of vehicle they are looking for. These sections include: General cars, sports & performance cars, diesel cars, vans, motorbikes, and even a bargain (under £1000) section, as well as many other categories. The advertisements are a mixture or private and trade, although it should be clearly stated which, at the bottom of the text. All adverts ...

xr2i16v 04.02.2001 · Read full review
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Great for Buying and Selling

Advantages: Weekly Thousands of vehicles Informative
Disadvantages: Not for literary buffs

What constitutes literary enjoyment is very subjective and varies from person to person. Unlike Britain most of the German trains actually run on time and some folk may get enjoyment out of reading the German Railways timetable. Some males may get pleasure out of gazing at scantily dressed young ladies in the pages of Men's magazine and a lot of ladies may enjoy a good "sob" story in a popular Woman's magazine. Many of the members of this web site ...
...of real literary merit. Well the long established British publication, Autotrader,by no stretch of the imagination would claim to excite the literary senses. I guess knowing the price of a 1998 Nissan Micra in good condition in East Anglia is XXX pounds is not rivetting stuff for most of us. Equally being given information on MG TD's for sale in Derbyshire is not going to excite that many of us. All this changes,however, if you want to sell your ...

ashford 18.01.2002 · Read full review
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Cant beat it for second hand motors

Advantages: great range of vehicles of all sorts, cheap magazine, buyers guides
Disadvantages: black and white on the whole

I have to say that having read various second hand car books and supplements, Autotrader still rules all. They have an unbeaten number of adverts in their publication and the magazine is in depth. It doesnt just include private ad's but also trade ad's and it even has a buyers guide in there as well. The magazine is well seperated into good sections. These include Prestige Motors, Collectors and Classics, Bargains (1000-00 and under), General cars, ...
...with Vans, minibuses, hgv's and also a spot for Motorcycles, caravans and the section at the back includes breakers and salvage and insurance and services. Each section is split into alphabetical brand names so if your looking for anything from an Austin Maestro to an MG F or from a Citroen Berlingo to a Leyland lorry, this is the magazine for you. Also they have an excellent website at www.autotrader.co.uk with a selection of the cars that appear ...

CyrixDes 07.09.2000 · Read full review
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Best motor magazine for bargains and bangers

Advantages: good read, interesting, great website, sensible layout
Disadvantages: none

I often buy Auto Trader because I like to keep abreast of what is happening in the motor industry and I like to see annoyingly how much my recently purchased new van has dropped in price as soon as I paid top whack for it! The layout of the magazine is very straigtforward and makes sense. It is split up into several sections like cars, classic cars, vans, HGV's and so on. Each of these sections is split alphabetically and goes through each manufacturer ...
...can find almost anything in Autotrader. They have all sorts from the good old British motor days of Austin to a spanking new Korean Daewoo!!. You should also try the Autotrader website because this is a real good website with all the adverts listed and many have colour pictures with them which can give you a fair indication of what condition it is in before you actually go and see it. If your interested in motors then you should try these 2 resources ...

GraWar 01.05.2001 · Read full review
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Pay £100 to get pestered by telesales canvassers !

Advantages: Well established, popular magazine for those buying & selling cars
Disadvantages: Expensive to advertise in, used as LEAD FODDER by every canvasser in town

...Ad I placed in the Auto Trader This review is really about my own extreme dissapointment with what little value The Auto Trader seemed to offer me when selling my car Firstly it needs to be said that I have a couple of dodgy second hand car dealer types as acquaintances so I canvassed their opinions as to the best way to sell my car privately WITHOUT FAIL, everyone I asked said, "stick it in the Auto Trader" so I had the impression that it should ...
...So, I log onto the Auto trader website and am quite pleased that I can upload my own photos and write my own ad, pay for the ad, edit it etc etc etc with relative simplicity Your print advert ( The one that appears in the actual magazine ) is limited in the amount of words you can use to describe your vehicle but for your Online version of the ad you can write hundreds upon hundreds of words and include many large digital pictures I opted for the ...

ChampionOfChampions 16.03.2006 · Read full review
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Disadvantages: No buyer interest at all, just a poor expensive advertising medium.

To sell your car, you can do it yourself or you can pay someone to do it for you (either by trade-in at a garage or through a selling agency) I didn't know that selling agencies existed before I started to sell my car, I'd just done the standard thing and put an advert in the Auto Trader. Two days later, from the advert on the Auto Trader website, I received a telephone call from Todd from www.automatch.info to sell me his company's service; to 'match buyers with sellers' through their website. They had a list of people just waiting to buy a car like mine; if I was to sign up there and then, I 'would have people calling that afternoon'. Apparently, Automatch advertise on Sky News' interactive service, in What Car, Parkers, and on the back of Esso receipts, so coverage was good. I checked with him that the price was right ...

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