What is the best car you will ever own? According to this ad it’s a 1997 Volvo V70. Fact!
At nearly 90,000 views, reaching over 50,000 within 4 days, this has become the most viewed ad in Adverts.ie history. It‘s been tweeted (343 times), shared (6401 times!), googled and has generated a response from around the World. I think it’s safe to say that this car, for sale for €500, has taken on a life of its own.
The seller, Rob O’Rourke, took his sales pitch to a whole new level when he asked us to pour ourselves a glass of whiskey, light up a cigar, sit back and listen to some “smooth jazz” while we read what this 15 year old car had to offer. Accompanying the ad are glammed-up photos of the less than glamorous, or even clean car. All of this combined to make magic that people couldn’t get enough of.
As for Rob, in the short 5 days that this car was available for sale on Adverts.ie Rob’s story featured in The Journal.ie, Joe.ie, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, TV3, 2FM and more. According to Rob’s Facebook page, he was also contacted by the head of Volvo. He has even been offered jobs and has been proposed to!
Is this the best car you will ever own? Maybe not. But it is the one of the cleverest ads to be featured here on Adverts.ie.
And the best part about it, it worked! This car was listed as sold five days after it was placed.
So why not add a little magic to your ad? You never know what will happen!
Maria.
Hi all,
From today until Friday 4th May, anyone placing an item for sale in our Home and Garden section or in our Baby and Nursery section will receive €5 Adverts credit as a thank you.

So go for it!
Sell the clothes your children don’t wear anymore, the smoothie maker you never used, the wedding gifts you never asked for!
Terms and conditions below:
-The ad placed must be a new For Sale ad with a picture (seller’s own), placed in any categories of our Home and Garden or Baby and Nursery sections (duplicate ads will be removed).
-Maximum of €5 credit per user.
-Users will receive €5 credit in their Adverts account within 24 hrs of the ad going live.
-Offer starts from midnight on Monday 30th April and ends on midnight, Friday 4th May.
-Free credit will expire within 90 days.
-Ads placed that are not in accordance with our rules will be removed and free credit will not be allocated.
Enjoy!
Claire
Our latest competition is very simple
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Create an email alert on Adverts.ie and you will automatically be entered in a draw to win an iPad3!

Do you need help creating your email alert? Read our previous post on email alerts or email us at support@adverts.ie and we’ll be more than happy to help!
Best of luck everyone!
Claire
Thanks to everyone who took part in our Photo competition, we had more than 1,600 entries and we greatly enjoyed browsing through them!
Our big winner is May Peñalver-Nagygyörgy, with the picture of her gorgeous child:
It received 360 votes, ahead of Aisling McCurtin and Rjshoes Comp.
Congratulations May, you win €500 cash as well as a framed canvas of the winning photogragh!
As promised, we came up with our own top 10. Have a look, your photo might be one of them!
We will pick a winning photograph out of this top 10 tomorrow and the winner will receive a €100 one4all voucher.
If you’re not a winner this time, don’t give up, we have a new competition coming up very soon!;)
Claire
Hi All,
Have you entered our Photo Competition yet?
It’s simple: Just submit a photo you have taken and you could win €500 cash on Monday 2nd April!
The photo with the most votes wins.
Here are the top 10 photos so far:
Good luck!
Claire
Judging from the high end photographic equipment for sale in our Photography section, we thought there must be some serious talent amongst our Adverts users!
So we hope you can prove us right.
Upload up to three of your own photographs onto our Photography Competition and you could win €500 cash along with your photograph on a framed canvas!
For more details see our terms and conditions below.
Good luck to you all!
Claire
HOW IT WORKS
How do I win?
Simply upload a photograph that you have taken using our Competition App. The photograph that receives the most votes by Monday 2nd April, 12pm will be the winner.
The photograph must be a single work of original material taken by the participant. By entering the competition, the participant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the participant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the photograph.
The photograph must not contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content. Adverts.ie reserves the right to remove any entry, should the photograph be deemed inappropriate.
One submitter, the entry cannot be retracted.
Each entry constitutes an irrevocable grant of permission to Adverts.ie and its sponsors to use the photograph for promotional purpose.
What do I win?
The winner will receive a €500 cash prize as well as a framed canvas of the winning photograph
The prize is not transferable
The winning photograph will be printed on a 25cm x40cm canvas and posted to your home from our partner Fine Art Print.
Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission to use the relevant winner’s name and other relevant information (excluding personal details such as phone number and email) for purposes of advertising, promotion or publicity in any media without additional compensation and prize winners agree to take part in such related promotional activities as Adverts.ie may require.
In the event of a tie, Adverts.ie will pick the winning photograph, based on the quality, originality and creativity of both entries.
The winner will be notified through their Facebook Wall. If the winner is not reachable during a period of 24 hours, the prize will be handed to the next entry with the most votes.
Who may enter:
-Open to residents of the island of Ireland only.
-Entrants must be over 15 years of age.
- Entries are limited to 3 different photographs per person.
What size? What format?
-Please upload jpeg only photographs, with a maximum size of 5Mb.
Data Privacy
Entrants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the Competition and any other purposes outlined in these Official Rules.
The data may also be used by Adverts.ie in order to verify the participant’s identity, postal address, and telephone number or to otherwise verify the participant’s eligibility to participate in the Competition. Participants have the right to access, review, rectify, or cancel any personal data held by Adverts.ie by writing to Adverts.ie, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Personal data will be used by Adverts.ie and its affiliates exclusively for the purposes stated herein.
It’s Friday, and we already gave up on not eating chocolate for Lent, so we’re bringing you down with us !
All you have to do to win is place a new ad on Adverts.ie between today and Monday morning. Post a comment here with the link to your ad and you’ll be in with a chance to win a nice box of chocolates.
(Make sure the email address you enter is the same as the one you use on Adverts.ie)
And we’re being extra nice, you can choose between Lindt Lindor, Celebrations and Lily O’Briens!
Competition ends Monday morning at 10am!
The winner will be picked at random (only one entry per person).
Get posting!
Claire








































