Pistonhead's has changed.

Irish_Tom · 10 Nov 2011 at 08:28

They were having some serious problems last night but I do think it will be a big improvement once they iron out the bugs.

The only filtering system and method of searching was crap.

Sam · 10 Nov 2011 at 08:47

Looks fantastic, give them a few days to iron out the bugs and it will be fine

Sam

psd99 · 10 Nov 2011 at 08:56

I was wondering what was going on last night

once they fix all the problems they should look to go for an app on the apple range of products.

got to say though the auto trader app is fantastic

Philz0r · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:41

Oh lordie. I emailed a seller from my iphone. Just recived 5 confimation emails. I think my email has spammed the seller lol

shauncr91 · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:42

Really like the changes

paradigm · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:44

Terrible. I can't get any filter options to ever return more than 7 cars, and then it throws up script errors. Add to that the utterly retarded slow performance, and the fact that it's now harder to browse (freely, as opposed to searching for something finite), I hate it.

Fail.

Muffin` · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:46

MilanoChris said:
He want it? I want rid asap, can trust you my number to give to him if you/he wants?

Thanks for the offer, but I was just showing him the market, he's coming round

Matt82 · 10 Nov 2011 at 14:51

Crizzy said:
Agree, where have all the cars gone?

3 vr6s nationwide

ChrisD. · 10 Nov 2011 at 15:51

Muffin` said:
Thanks for the offer, but I was just showing him the market, he's coming round

Ah okay.

Will get mine listed again, and stick it on AT I think.

Spam hat on.

Crizzy · 10 Nov 2011 at 17:06

Well it seems to be down at the moment so hopefully they're ironing out the problems.

godinman · 10 Nov 2011 at 17:07

It's back up again.

godinman · 10 Nov 2011 at 17:11

Hmmm, only 25 rwd cars for under 2k?

Matt82 · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:29

Link!

Agent_Smith357 · 10 Nov 2011 at 19:51

Its been dead since all the ad's became paid only.

Irish_Tom · 11 Nov 2011 at 19:41

They've had to put the old site back up!

MrMason · 11 Nov 2011 at 19:55

Hilarious!

I would love to know which company they paid to make the new site, and why they pushed it out in such a shambolic state!

If you look at the public stats, there is serious money involved:

Number of Adverts on PH
108,048

Adverts on PH are just £9.99
Trade Ads cost just £17+VAT

Let's say they make £12 per advert on average that's over £1,000,000 of revenue from the current adverts online. I wonder if they actually hired a web team, or just outsourced it to India. Anyone know ?

Maccy · 11 Nov 2011 at 20:02

I contacted them regarding their load testing as it clearly wasn't performed properly, or again outsourced.

MrMason · 11 Nov 2011 at 20:12

By the looks of it, load testing wasn't their biggest problem. The site was slow even at 2-4am in the morning, I tested it a few times. The problems must have be even more fundamental! Add to that the fact that the basic site functions were not working means they probably didn't even do any basic testing of their site, let alone the kind of tests that you'd expect from a multi million pound venture!

Vigoro · 11 Nov 2011 at 20:12

looks like classifieds are back to the old style for now

Maccy · 11 Nov 2011 at 20:13

MrMason said:
By the looks of it, load testing wasn't their biggest problem. The site was slow even at 2-4am in the morning, I tested it a few times. The problems must have be even more fundamental! Add to that the fact that the basic site functions were not working means they probably didn't even do any basic testing of their site, let alone the kind of tests that you'd expect from a multi million pound venture!

Yeh that's true, unless the volume of traffic from the day/evening had a knock on effect?