Car Spotter

Cat

Said on the 28 July 2009

They clearly couldn’t think of a use of their service that doesn’t look incredibly shady to use on their ads. Maybe they could further appeal to their obvious demographic: ‘£1.50 per message OR free from your nicked iphone!’

Archer

Said on the 28 July 2009

I LUV the fact that you can find out both the value and mileage of the car that you’re gonna tax.

What I luv most is that I’m hammered and have just been in the shadiest bar in the country, but have passed the ‘tan-a-car’ website around to proper criminals who had never heard of it.

Phill

Said on the 28 July 2009

This advert irks me quite a bit. They ‘need’ to send you TWO text messages, one of the price and one on its performance….. and they couldn’t fit all that crap in one message then?

If its your car, you’re going to know what its performance is like, BECAUSE ITS YOUR CAR!!!

Sad!

sarah

Said on the 29 July 2009

Perhaps I’ve lived a somewhat sheltered life, but this advert. completely mystified me, why would you accost someone and ask them what their car is worth? Why would you need to know? Why would you risk having your teeth rearranged by such intrusion?

fleagle

Said on the 29 July 2009

Stupid advert, they must think we are morons.

Another Ad Hater

Said on the 31 July 2009

Why would people pay £3 to get details about their OWN FUCKING CAR?!

BigDave

Said on the 31 July 2009

I imagine it would be useful if you were attempting to buy a second hand car and you didnt trust the snaggletoothed oily skinned wretched bitch of a salesman.
Still a shit fucking ad though.

Smithery Baggins

Said on the 2 August 2009

Why do they use a person who is just doing his weekly shopping, he couldn’t give a shit what his car is worth, it has no relevence to the service.

Another Ad Hater

Said on the 3 August 2009

Oh my God, I just saw all 3 of the adverts on their official site and they are all SHIT!
Idiot on Car Spotter Mic: “Is this an expensive car?”
Guy getting out of car: “No comment”

DUH! It’s a fucking BMW! Of course it’s expensive, I don’t need some stupid text service to tell me if a BMW is expensive.

“What’s a car like this cost?”
Instead of asking everyone on the street, why don’t you go to a fucking car shop?! Hell, you can even just search on the Internet! Clearly, that woman really doesn’t give a shit about how much the car costs!

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 3 August 2009

She probably didn’t want to mention blowing half of London….

Jimmy Bee

Said on the 7 August 2009

Duh website & info is of no use what so ever youcannot value a car unless you know both its age and mileage.. if you read the websites disclaimer it even tells you this anyone taking info from just the reg i.e.age & vehicle biy no mileage is a complete idiot.. I can’t believe people are thick enough to fall for this total scam

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 8 August 2009

Gadget Helpline. Enough said.

BPD

Said on the 12 August 2009

Of course he knows how much his car is worth, he’s a posh twat. He’ll probably take great delight on telling you how much his home in Chelsea and all the other homes he owns is worth…

laa

Said on the 12 August 2009

why does this man say SORRY for not ‘having a clue’ when asked by a dick with a microphone about his car?

Daniel Newton

Said on the 18 August 2009

Rubbish advert and Idea.

Personally if someone came up to me or I saw them wrighting my reg down I would re-arange there teeth.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 19 August 2009

Hopefully before they rearranged your spelling….

Daniel Newton

Said on the 20 August 2009

@CovertJellyfish: I do apologize for incorrectly spelling (2) words, I was under the misapprehension that this website was to rate and review adverts that do your head in; not others spelling. So just for you I have corrected it;

Rubbish advert and Idea.

Personally if someone came up to me or I saw them righting my registration down I would re-arrange there teeth.

Andy

Said on the 20 August 2009

Daniel you still got it wrong. It should be writing not righting, rearrange not re-arrange and their not there. Perhaps you should use some sort of spell checking system in future,maybe a dictionary.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 20 August 2009

Daniel Please don’t be offended I was only making a light hearted comment and was in no way casting a slur upon your good self, if you look around you will see I have made more than a few typos myself……

Archer

Said on the 21 August 2009

Good news! If you do use Car Spotter to help you pick out a car to nick, and you find that the silly owner has left some gold jewellery on the back seat, you can ring up Postal Gold and they’ll send you cash for it.

And they do mean cash! No questions asked.

dungeoneer

Said on the 24 August 2009

have you seen the other one with the snobby woman in the land rover – how much is this car worth…’ i really have no idea – she answers…. aaaahhhhh!!!! stupid bitch of course you know you’re a fucking snob and as for the fanny asking has he never heard of auto-trader? what a bunch of wank stain.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 25 August 2009

The guy from the Postal Gold ad looks like he bought his nostrils surplus from the RAF….

Random or what?

Sully

Said on the 27 August 2009

Postal Gold… What a load of monkey jizz that advert is…

‘We pay you money’… Well we would all be a little surprised if you paid us Hungarian luncheon vouchers mate!!

‘I sent all my gold to Postal Gold and received £424′ – Well done my love, only it’s true value was probably twice that, but well done anyway.

Oh and the guy who sold his wedding ring… Is it me or does he still sound a little bitter about his divorce!

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 27 August 2009

The woman who got £424 should have spent some of it on a haircut, I have never seen such a bad haircut, I bet she has knobbly elbows too, I’d kick her out of bed because of her bad haircut and knobbly elbows…

george

Said on the 30 August 2009

why are so many people commenting on this website so “chippy” ? you are supposed to be reveiwing the ads (unlike me) not wether someone is posh or a snob because they drive a Range Rover.

Zippy

Said on the 30 August 2009

Oh george, you silly hippo, those people are part of what makes the advert so rubbish.

dungeoneer

Said on the 30 August 2009

so true zippy, they are all ‘actors’ anyway so they contribute to the overall poor decisions and awfulness of the advert!

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 31 August 2009

Reviewing, lol, don’t you need a sane and balanced point of view for that?

Archer

Said on the 1 September 2009

Sane? That’e me out then.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 1 September 2009

I was thinking you’re more unbalanced…..

Archer

Said on the 1 September 2009

Yup. I put it down to being top-heavy.

Also noticed I made a typo there. Something about glass houses and stones comes to mind.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 1 September 2009

Top heavy hmmmm…. Excuse me I’ll be right back….

Typo? I didn’t dare mention it….

Archer

Said on the 1 September 2009

Well that’s given me something to think about tonight…

Maybe tomorrow we should actually try and talk about the Car Spotter advert?

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 2 September 2009

There hasn’t been a mention of the ad since the 24th of August, in fact I don’t think anyone but us come here any more, you scared them all away…….

Archer

Said on the 2 September 2009

I can’t believe you think I’m scary! You’ve totally taken me the wrong way…

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 2 September 2009

Not me, I like scary… just like a rollercoster…. and I haven’t taken you…..

Archer

Said on the 2 September 2009

You know what I meant!

Right… I’m going to be good now and only say things if it’s got something to do with an advert.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 2 September 2009

Awww… you’re no fun…. And we need new adverts….

Archer

Said on the 2 September 2009

We do need more adverts. Do you think Silky’s punishing us for talking nonsense on his site?

Archer

Said on the 2 September 2009

And by nonsense I mean thinly-veiled filth.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 2 September 2009

I wasn’t even veiling my filth…. and yes probably….

Archer

Said on the 2 September 2009

If you want to veil your filth, you should probably go to Paul’s house.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 2 September 2009

No thanks, I’ll just leave it out for everyone to see… Wow I got a thrill from saying that, maybe I’m an exhibitionist in hiding….

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 24 September 2009

Speaking of exhibitionists, you could use this service whilst out dogging…..

qwidge

Said on the 24 September 2009

Now if only i’d thought of that it would have saved all those wasted hours of trying to rob tax disks and car log books from ropey old Orions while the back seats were a rockin’

Archer

Said on the 25 September 2009

Yes qwidge… that’s what you were doing looking into steamed up car windows late at night. Thinking about stealing cars. One question though… why the camera??

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 25 September 2009

And this advert is unreal anyway… where the hell is the guy in the background screaming and shouting obscenities as he searches his car for one last ten pence piece so he can buy an extortionate parking ticket…

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 25 September 2009

HANG ON!!! THAT WAS NO OWL!!!!

Nigel

Said on the 26 September 2009

What I want to know is where they get the information from – there are surely some data protection/privact issues here

Daniel Newton

Said on the 29 September 2009

I don’t like this advert and I really don’t like the idea.

If you went up to someone random in a car park and said “How much is a car like this worth?” 9 times out of 10 they would either;

A) Get very upset, lock themselves in their car and call the police
B) Get very upset and call their husband (woman only) / security guard
C) Tare you a new arse hole out of fear that your going to steel their car.

If you went up to a random car in a car park and rote the reg down/into your phone 9 times out of 10 the owner would either;

A) Get very upset that a stranger is righting down their details and call security/husband/police
B) Ask you what the fuck you’re doing? Then Tare you a new arse hole when you tell them your “Just using car spotter to find out how much a car like this is worth”

The market for these kind of things has already been filled; there is a service that the DVLA provide that it’s very similar or just get a HPI check.

So why the hell do you need “Car Spotter”, unless you want someone to Tare you a new arsehole of course….

Smithery Baggins

Said on the 29 September 2009

I’ve seen 3 or 4 different versions of these adverts now and on each one when the person is asked “what’s your car worth” everyone reply’s “I don’t know” in a way that sounds like they couldn’t be less interested then they scurry off as fast as their legs can take them, perhaps their trying to make it seem more realistic, whatever the reason it is a totally ineffective advert.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 29 October 2009

Just as an amendment to my post of the second of September…

#Not me, I like scary… just like a rollercoster…. and I haven’t taken you…..#

You are definitely not scary..

Rollercoasters are fun…

End of message.

Archer

Said on the 29 October 2009

Yeah… but you wouldn’t want to ride a rollercoaster for too long. You’d soon get bored.

CovertJellyfish

Said on the 29 October 2009

Not if it is as exciting as you are, can hold up a good conversation, is fun to be around, and has the most gorgeous eyes ever… I don’t think I could ever get bored…

Daniel Newton

Said on the 30 October 2009

Get a room you two bitches.

Stoofdawg

Said on the 3 November 2009

That little jingle pisses me right off.. The first person I hear with that as a message tone is getting it shoved up their arse..

Spencer

Said on the 14 November 2009

The guy in the ad is Russell he is a car dealer working from a field in Ripley, Surrey called Baker Boys……draw your own conclusion

Chris

Said on the 22 November 2009

Theres a new one with an annoying early30s woman bouncing around in a fake mini shouting at her dipstick 16 year old looking boyfriend ‘ can i have it, can i have it can i have it can i have it can i hav….you get the picture’ and he says ‘erm..whats the price’
aboslute shite

Rich

Said on the 1 December 2009

This is the most annoying advert ever. Aside from the fact that the fact that the advert is worded to make the viewer sound like an absolute moron, the service sounds like a bag of shite, not to mention that it’s going to cost £3 to send you the info, £1.50 of which is a complete waste of money – what is the ‘performance’ text going to say “this car goes like a belter” / “this car feels like you’re driving a tractor”?

The scenarios where you might want to use the service are so badly thought up it’s funny.

Daniel Newton

Said on the 7 December 2009

Yet another advert for this mindless drivel has appeared, this time some very shady man is walking down the street when he spots a car and decides to ‘look in the windows’ (see if it’s locked) then says to him self “nice car, wonder what that’s worth”

They obviously cannot and will not ever be able to make this ‘service’ appear any less shady then it is; for you next monotonous advert Car Spotter why not just show a group of yobs walking down the street, attacking an old man for his mobile then texting the reg of every car they pass until they have found one worth robbing – after all this IS what your service was intended for?

As for £1.50 a text, surely not? And they HAVE to send you two texts?

CHRIS ADLEY

Said on the 24 December 2009

All of the info about the price of your car and performance is on parkers.co.uk for free

Mal

Said on the 17 January 2010

Bloody fools, who wants to pay 3 quid to find out what they can find out for free. Pop into W.H. Smith and pick up a Used car guide from the shelf, find out what you want to know and put the guide back on the shelf. Simples.

Rio mummy

Said on the 12 March 2010

Love the comments made by Archer and covertjelly fish lol

John Kinns

Said on the 18 March 2010

One question comes to mind over this Dutch company selling values of British cars based on their Registration Number. Where did they get the registration database from! Is it possible that the DVLA will send you a copy, perhaps along with all the personal deatails of the owner included?

John Kinns

Said on the 18 March 2010

Another frightening and disturbing thought comes to mind. When you send them a request and If they have the facility, the GPS in your phone would tell them exactly where you and that car are. That has to be inot only an intrusion of privacy but depending what the owner might be up to at the time, could be somewhat embarassing.

Car Dealer

Said on the 15 April 2010

when ever i c that add it make me feel sick to my stomach becz it doesn’t make any sense at all. that ugly looking weirdo woman and dat crazy muppet wants to evaluate his own car. its just stupid.

Gabrielle Ross

Said on the 11 May 2010

Sparco makes some of the best car seats in the market. I usually prefer leather car seats over cloth.”:;

Ad Hater 2.0

Said on the 11 May 2010

What the fuck is all this random shit about?! I’ve seen comments about Spongebob and now Sparco?!

Peter Ward

Said on the 1 June 2010

Hi all….I have had a very good laugh reading all these comments regarding the adverts…HA-HA. I’d also just like to say, Car spotter is one of the worst adverts ever. Like you all say, why on earth do we need to know what OUR own car is worth? Unless it’s over 10 years old and you have forgotten what you paid for it 10 years back plus deducting depreciation, then who’d care anyway lol. Same with Postal Gold…I actually did that, sent in a whooping big bag of Gold I had, and they sent me a cheque for…….£19….I sent the cheque back and demanded my Gold!! Which took them 3 weeks to send me back, but I got it…I then went to a jewelers, and they weighed it, and offered me £392.50….That’s how much of a shitty scam Postal Gold is, they should ban the advert….Also another irratating advert has to be, “Webuyanycar.com” I also did this to see what they’d offer me.. A 2005 Audi A4 s.e…Roughly priced at £5000, they offered me..you ready?? £850.00, I nearly drove to their head office and run the fuckers over!!!!!

Rebecca Murphy