More modern look but...............
having seen a car you would like more info on......... i.e. more info / phone number you cannot access it.............seems fatally flawed
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For me, the search for used just seems to take me to the old listings and they work just as before.
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Funny thing about the Autotrader site, I find it works fine with Opera but not with Firefox.
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Funny thing about the Autotrader site I find it works fine with Opera but not with Firefox.
Seems ok to me with Firefox - what's going wrong?
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Firefox ok: enable cookies?
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Not okay for my Firefox - but I run AdblockPlus because I don't want adverts and NoScript because it blocks malicious scripts from running. I can't see pictures when I click on them and the search is way too slow.
My wife was looking for a car (using her Mac) and has given up using the site as she finds it difficult to use now. I'm sure this is not the kind of reaction that Autotrader wanted from the update. But I'm glad we're not the only one that has found the new Autotrader beta site to be dreadful.
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I too think its rubbish and I have to use it daily as part of my job.
I managed to get the old site back by clearing my cookies / history etc.
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I managed to get the old site back .. >>
When FB posted this in June, I tired to find the beta site, but couldn't. I still have not come across it so have no idea what the problem with it is or was!
Edited by jbif on 23/09/2009 at 08:40
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It seems to be randomly there and not there. I've been looking at the site alot in the last few weeks, and some times its the Beta one and sometimes not. I'm on a Mac using Firefox and the search still operates at the same kind of speed it used to. Seems to be purely a visual change, I don't see any new features.
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its commercial suicide in my opinion
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Errr - can't see what the fuss is about. Am I missing something? I'm using Autotrader every day at the moment, trying to find a car for my daughter. I noticed the new-look front end a few days ago, but my saved search is still there and from that point onwards, it looks and works as usual??
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I have noticed a new flakey front end appear now and again recently.
Let me tell you, I don't like it.
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I used it this morning, seems ok and works ok
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Let me tell you, I don't like it. >>
Tell them, use the Feedback button :
ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=591237...4
Edited by jbif on 23/09/2009 at 11:49
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At work I get the old website but at home it's the Beta. The old one is much better IMO. The Beta has actually improved recently in terms of speed and use of the drop downs but I really don't know why they felt the need to bother.
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Tell them use the Feedback button : ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=591237...4 I have now tried 3 times
guess what?
its crashed 3 times
4th time it timed out
i rest my case.....
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new A/T site awful, just awful.
MD
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It's unusable in IE8 on Vista64.
Until, you block one of the advertising website plugins then it works.
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Heres the feedback that I sent them directly:-
For a web based business I have never seen such a load of old cxxp.
With the ever increasing usage of mobile devices operating on standard web browsers, what on earth made you guys build the site in such a clunky heavy way?
The headers are far too large requiring the user to constantly be scrolling down to reach the content, the drop down menus are so amateurish that it makes me feel depressed being on the site.
No one has made any attempt to think of the user and I want the old site back. In fact - if you had even given one ounce of consideration to your audience you would still be offering them that option.
Question - Do you recall when BA re-branded the tails planes of their aircraft and we all laughed or when they removed Jeeves from ASK? Well this is one of those stupid money wasting exercises.
With the current unrest and disgust from your users which can be seen so frequently on the www., this is an ideal time for your competitors to attack on your market share.
Well done - not....
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Just had a quick look.
It seems very very slow.
Only obvious improvement is it remembers my post code and avoids the old illogical sequence at the start of the old version.
Inserting "featured listing" at the top of each is a real turn off. What a stupid idea!
A box to omit features would have been useful
Edited by henry k on 10/10/2009 at 01:00
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I've sent them negative feedback on the usability of the site twice and had no comeback except on the last occasion when I got a standardised e-mail, I supplied my e-mail addy twice in a bid to hear their excuse for the lame attempt at a revamp.
I preferred the old site for the simple reason that I go to the AT site to look at cars, not the interface, the old one was far more efficient.
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>>the old one was far more efficient.
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I second that. It is so so slow that many will give up looking.
I tried the view map / get directions to dealer box. Yes it failed. Could not find the post code of "......is the largest specialist car dealer in Europe"
"We have been unable to find the Dealer's postcode, please try again later."
I cannot be bothered to contact them.
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Changes again @ the Autotrader website
Seems to be a cross between "the old and the new"
Softer look /colours of the new but the presentation is older (and more easily read)
It has difficulties with post codes and seems a bit shaky
Why do they not just bite the bullet and go back to the old version that worked
and leave "pretty websites" to others?
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Well, hopefully those little 'cutesey characters' have been given the elbow - they really gave the site a 'fluffy kitten' infantile look :-(
Maybe they were trying to soften the edges of the used car trade - but we know Bell Boy's out there :-)
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(missed the 'edit' option)
Just had a look at the site, and it seems to have changed since yesterday! Much better drop-downs and description page.
Maybe they've been listening, after all!
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very stable this morning
doubt they were listening mind,more likely one of the fuses has blown and its only on half a brain today
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snip
Edited by Pugugly on 31/10/2009 at 09:07
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OK I know there has already been a thread on this but how pink fluffy dice is the new website?
The old one was basic but did everything you needed and was quick.
The new super duper flash one? I will die of old age before the results come up and I'm running an 8 meg connection.
Why do people have to make something that used to work so complicated?
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 09/11/2009 at 19:34
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I hated the old site because the interface just seemed crude. This new one is a lot more slick but it sounds like they don't have the bandwidth to be able to cope with it.
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One of my friends (a web developer) joked the other day that it is so bloated and badly written, you'd need a Cray hard wired to the server to get satisfactory performance from the thing.
It's awful.
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OK I know there has already been a thread on this ... Why do people have to make something that used to work so complicated? >>
oooh! naughty attempt to bypass the swear filter!
I have a question you may ask yourself in reply to you starting a new thread: why start a new thread when the old one was perfectly OK?
{which is why it's been moved to the existing one}
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 09/11/2009 at 19:36
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I've been using it recently and it didn't seem too bad, quite usable - this is on a 3+ year old Dell X1 laptop (Pentium M733 1.1GHz) in Linux (no dedicated graphics card support) with a 2Mb connection.
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I've recently received this email from someone at Autotrader following comments made about their website:-
"A new version of the Auto Trader site was launched back in September. Since the launch, we have been listening to the feedback online, including that on your site, as well as conducting our own focus groups to discover the views of our visitors and how they felt about it. Next week we are going to be putting some new changes live.
The homepage will become less cluttered and you'll notice changes in navigation and search. To check out the rest of the changes that have been made though, it's probably worth taking a peek for yourself next week when all of the new changes go live."
www.autotrader.co.uk
DD.
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I quite like the new site. the only problem I have is with loading the pop-up car pictures - it always seems held up by the ads which don't load, then stop the page completing.
Other than that, the search filter options & page related links are useful & are generally relevant.
Autotrader has reached the status of 'national treasure' for me - it's the default place to check real-world used car prices & actual specs. - far more useful than pages of dense (and usually out of date) stuff you get from digests (and regurgitations) of CAP or Glass's on motoring websites & the like - excluded from that is HJ obviously!
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woodbines, I have the same problem with pictures in Internet Explorer. However, the problem does not happen in Firefox. Perhaps try a few different browsers.
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I may try that Alanovich - I use Opera & quite like close control I have over browser behaviour & security settings using it. As it takes me ages to get things 'just right' in configuring a browser though, I'll probably just put up with the slight inconvenience.
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It is better than it was- i.e. response times
BUT
Still too many fake adverts (obvious ones) that litter the site
Today - 08 Lexus RX 400H for only £6000 with 8,000 mls or was it £8,000 with 6,000 mls?
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Still too many fake adverts (obvious ones) that litter the site
Does anyone have any meaningful explanation for these fake adverts? Say I'm stupid enough to think one of them is serious and make contact with the 'seller' - then what? Is it that I'll becalling on a number that makes them squillions or something?
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The seller will demand a deposit/full payment before allowing you near the car, which does not exist anyway...
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Yep and as the car doesn't exist it can be sold to an infinite amount of people... so even a deposit many times over is worthwhile.
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I would prefer it if they spent the time making the search engine work than prettyfying the front end.
I've just done a search for a car, then added the keyword heated seats.
It returned the same list of which none had heated seats.
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I've just done a search for a car then added the keyword heated seats. It returned the same list of which none had heated seats.
Strange - I tried it and it worked for me; reduced a list of BMW 3 series down from 6000+ to 1000+. I tried entering gibberish in the search box and the number of matches went down to 0.
Edited by Focus {P} on 26/01/2010 at 16:43
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My mistake.
Heated seats are "heated seats" otherwise is picks up on heated door mirrors, heated rear window etc...as matching one of the keywords.
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it locks up on photos at work so will just have to wait and see the new improved omo version next week or was it daz?
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