This is how you photograph a car for sale

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
07/07/2017 at 10:23 • Filed to: None

Keep scrolling. And scrolling.

http://www.roverclassic.com/detail.php?item=828

DISCUSSION (26)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:28

nope too many pics and not enough thumbs/fingers/body parts in the way.

;)

Honeybunchesofgoats > pip bip - choose Corrour
07/07/2017 at 10:30

The license plate is just sitting there in the open! Don’t they have any sense of propriety or shame?

DutchieDC2R > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:30

its.....detailed, thats for sure....

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:31

I’m not actually sure that I need photos taken in 5 degree increments as I move around the car, TBH.

Honeybunchesofgoats > DutchieDC2R
07/07/2017 at 10:32

Every one of their listings is that obsessive. It seems like they make a lot of out of state/international sales, so I guess that all of the photos help.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:33

That is a very pretty car. And at $5,900 is price right as well. I wish I was in the market for a new to me car. That would be an interesting ride, although I’d hate to punish it as my daily work car. It’d be like making a thorough bred horse pull a plow.

Honeybunchesofgoats > WilliamsSW
07/07/2017 at 10:33

Although, compared with photos taken at an angle facing sunlight, you sort of have to commend the effort.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:34

“Excuse me, I think your license plate is showing”

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:35

Very fair point - plus, I’ve been spending wayyyy too much time on BaT lately, where this would be about the average number of photos posted per listing.

Honeybunchesofgoats > WilliamsSW
07/07/2017 at 10:38

This site is dangerous, because their willingness to take 180 photographs of a 90s Land Rover for sale almost makes it seem like they’d be a reliable purchase.

CobraJoe > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:40

I bet you could make a pretty smooth spinning gif from all those pics

WilliamsSW > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:42

Look how PRISTINE it is! It’s GOTTA be a good reliable car!

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:45

Actually, there’s such thing as too many similar photos.

NP though.

Ash78, voting early and often > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:48

Realtors do this shit, too. There’s a sweet spot in the number of pics I need of a car or a house. It’s usually about 20. Not 50. And definitely not 3 (I ’ m looking at you, Craigslist..)

fintail > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:51

MonkeePuzzle > WilliamsSW
07/07/2017 at 10:54

bandwidth is basically free. If I’m buying a car sight unseen, why not.

WilliamsSW > Ash78, voting early and often
07/07/2017 at 10:54

Then I’d highly recommend that you stay away from BaT. It’s probably more obsessive than this site. :)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:58

Wow that’s clean.

BritishLeyland™ > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 10:59

WHAT THE FRIGG THE SITE IS CALLED ROVERCLASSIC AND THERE ARE NO ROVERS CARS FOR SALE I MEAN WHAT IS THIS?!?!?!?!?!111111

WilliamsSW > MonkeePuzzle
07/07/2017 at 11:00

True, and no one is making me look at every photo. But it seems to me that a lot of these photos don’t contain new info.

I just randomly looked at the first BaT listing I saw, and it has 140 photos and 7 videos. The video number is pretty high even for BaT (it’s a 911SC currently at $20k), but I don’t think 140 pics is that unusual for them - - but there, you see a lot more specific, detailed photos of blemishes, known trouble spots, etc.

Even with all of that, I think I’d want to fly out and look at the car, but that’s just me.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 11:17

EAGLE PREMIER

http://www.roverclassic.com/detail.php?item=800

Tekamul > Ash78, voting early and often
07/07/2017 at 11:38

There’s a FSBO website in my area that is like that. The hard limit is 8, which is not enough.

Ash78, voting early and often > Tekamul
07/07/2017 at 11:44

Sounds almost like an FSBO website that’s secretly run by realtors. “You know, if you want your house to sell, I can set it up on my website with 50 pictures!”

Honeybunchesofgoats > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
07/07/2017 at 11:47

That’s the single most photographed Eagle Premier in history.

Tekamul > Ash78, voting early and often
07/07/2017 at 11:54

Really they’re just completely outdated. I used it when I sold my previous house, but in hindsight I should have known it was a waste of money. Same thing with flat rate realtors (who I fortunately talked my wife out of).

In the end, both offers came from buyers who found it on Zillow. The presentation there is much better.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/07/2017 at 12:24

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