New car prices slashed!? - Or not (Mistake by VW)

[ffrank]

The guys at the VW website are now scratching their heads on how to add a government discount to just one model in the 'range':



Heh heh.

Edit - Chazzypuk, I bet!

[wigit]

i posted on Friday on VW Facebook page that they needed to sort their website out, they managed to make a mess of the Polo GTI launch as well

[ffrank]

Yeah, pretty poor for such a massive company. The whole configurator is offline now.

[Mark V GTD]

Yes its a very poor showing by VW UK - the website has been all over the place over the weekend due to the GTE launch. Prices with the 5k discount, some without. Pictures in the configurator without a steering wheel and gear shift lever etc!!

Very unimpressive - they should have had it running correctly before adding the new model...

[wigit]

this is the same VW website that between nov 13 and feb 14 who made a bit of a mistake on R seat colours

you think they may test it and test the links, not rocket science

[gazmondo35]

The Configurator went down while I was in the dealership placing my order on a R.
I jokingly said do you want to take my order down on the back of a fag packet.

[pjr]

At the moment, the configurator for the GTE lets you add the Performance Pack to it as a 'popular choice' 

[Mark V GTD]

Even three days later they still have the 'GTI performance  pack' available on the GTE..... they have even managed to now lose the 5k Government subsidy so price is back up to 33k...

On the plus side you do now get a steering wheel and gear shift lever!

[matchboy]

I was chatting to a friend yesterday who runs a very large website, and telling her about what happened with the VW website.  She said it would have been a very easy mistake to make and that stuff like this is more complicated than the average joe (ie. me!) realises - however, I wasn't having any of it as as far as I'm concerned its VW and mistakes like that shouldn't happen!

[jv]

Mistakes like that should definitely not happen.

The scale they are running at you have a whole dev>qa>production setup. Changes get made, tested, confirmed, set live. Day the GTE gets announced and it's listed on the site but with 404 error - shocking. Now all this mess with options and pricing. Totally avoidable.

Still funny though