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Is Apollo Duck losing its relevance?

Starcoaster

By Starcoaster
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Athy Veteran II

Athy

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For me the problem is that AD is a very poor site. Hard to navigate (no pun intended),

In what way? I look at it often, I look at boats by the make (listed down the left hand side) and there they all are - I can even choose the order in which they are displayed, e.g. latest additions, or pick one specific boat, such as "40 foot cruiser". I find it very easy to use, and I'm no computer boffin.

Some of the adverts are amateurish, but that's due to the private advertisers who are, after all, mostly amateurs, and not to AD itself.

magnetman Veteran II

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i am 42 and don't use Facebook but I wear "trainers" not running shoes.

DHutch Veteran II

DHutch

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I think there is still a huge place sites such as Apolo Duck, looks at Auto Trader and PistonHeads classifieds, all of my cars have come of one or other of the aforementioned two despite being fairly 'low value' cars that you might associate with eBay and cheaper listing options.

 

Apollo Duck itself does have quite a dated look and feel and lack the slick user interface people now expect, although is little worse on a mobile than it is on the desktop.

 

 

 

Daniel

Taslim Rising Star

Taslim

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Problem I've got with Apollo Duck is lack of funds for another boat!

Finish fit out on Halcyon, sell on Apaulling Muck, buy 'the other boat' from A M. Your problem solved......Err. Would that work?

 

The 'Duck site is a little shabby but a mate got a very good deal from the site in April though the advert didn't come down 'till about four weeks after the deal was done & dusted..

saltysplash Experienced

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When I was a kid, daps were exclusively those black, rubber soled fabric shoes with a bit of elastic on the top.

They're Pumps, but yes, Daps when I used to live in Treharris

Robbo Veteran II

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Finish fit out on Halcyon, sell on Apaulling Muck, buy 'the other boat' from A M. Your problem solved......Err. Would that work?

 

The 'Duck site is a little shabby but a mate got a very good deal from the site in April though the advert didn't come down 'till about four weeks after the deal was done & dusted..

I found my other boat on Apollo Duck, the layout feels a little outdated but to me it's the quaility of the photos and how much information is on the ad that interests me in a boat not the site that it's on.

Bunny Proficient

Bunny

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Friends sold their boat recently on Apollo Duck . Thats where we would look to buy or sell. Bunny.

KroSha Engager

KroSha

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I've bought both mine from AD, and sold one on there too. It sold in less than a week. I'd rather look on there, where I can filter down to what I want, than eBay.

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Alan de Enfield Veteran II

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20 minutes ago, m11kyg said:

Just came across this, if you're bored of the Duck the please feel free to try my site Boats For Sale. There is currently no charge for advertising ?

 

Have you boughtb the site ?

 

Last December you posted

"I only ask as it's not one i've seen before and i'm sellling my boat soon and since this one claims to be free i thought i'd ask the question and see if anyone has used it before?"

 

One way or the other it sounds a bit of  fib

m11kyg Gongoozler

m11kyg

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I have bought it.

 

As for the cookies, all sites should do that as you are not meant to be able to look at them without accepting the cookies due to the GDPR regulations??

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1 minute ago, m11kyg said:

I have bought it.

 

As for the cookies, all sites should do that as you are not meant to be able to look at them without accepting the cookies due to the GDPR regulations??

Errrrr, are you 100% sure of that??

ditchcrawler Veteran II

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5 minutes ago, m11kyg said:

I have bought it.

 

As for the cookies, all sites should do that as you are not meant to be able to look at them without accepting the cookies due to the GDPR regulations??

 

5 minutes ago, m11kyg said:

I have bought it.

 

As for the cookies, all sites should do that as you are not meant to be able to look at them without accepting the cookies due to the GDPR regulations??

Coblers

m11kyg Gongoozler

m11kyg

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6 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:

Errrrr, are you 100% sure of that??

Not really, still a work in progress... However, when ever i've clicked no a lot of sites have dumped me back to Google or the sites jsut don't work properly...

pete.i Rising Star

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Yet another web site I will not be using. Soon there wont be any I can use because of their cookie policies and I can finally dump my computer along with my telly.

m11kyg Gongoozler

m11kyg

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1 minute ago, pete.i said:

Yet another web site I will not be using. Soon there wont be any I can use because of their cookie policies and I can finally dump my computer along with my telly.

You can blame the EU for that....  But then cookies have been around since the start of the web, Facebook collects god knows what so its something you can't avoid! 

boots Proficient

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18 minutes ago, m11kyg said:

I have bought it.

 

As for the cookies, all sites should do that as you are not meant to be able to look at them without accepting the cookies due to the GDPR regulations??

You can’t store cookies without the viewers consent, but there is no requirement to use cookies in the first place.

Alan de Enfield Veteran II

Alan de Enfield

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Just now, m11kyg said:

Facebook collects god knows what so its something you can't avoid! 

Yes you can, there are many of us here who do not 'do' Facebook for those very reasons (that and the childish focus on telling everyone what you had for breakfast, what colour your socks are etc)

TheBiscuits Veteran II

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1 minute ago, boots said:

You can’t store cookies without the viewers consent, but there is no requirement to use cookies in the first place.

 

Correct.

 

And it's still got nothing at all to with GDPR either!

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