Boats and Outboards

[CreakyDecks]

Is boatsandoutboards.co.uk a real boat selling site or is it a scam? I noticed a boat advertised on a broker's site which is 33% less on Boats and Outboards, using exactly the same photos. What rings alarm bells is that the only phone number is a premium rate one. Are Boats and Outboards running a premium rate phone scam or are they simply providing a facility for other people to run them? It seems I can set up a premium rate phone line, copy a few brokers photos, stick it on one of B&O's free ads and I'm away!

 

[gjgm]

Is boatsandoutboards.co.uk a real boat selling site or is it a scam? I noticed a boat advertised on a broker's site which is 33% less on Boats and Outboards, using exactly the same photos. What rings alarm bells is that the only phone number is a premium rate one. Are Boats and Outboards running a premium rate phone scam or are they simply providing a facility for other people to run them? It seems I can set up a premium rate phone line, copy a few brokers photos, stick it on one of B&O's free ads and I'm away!

The site is genuine. It isnt unusual on any site to find an advert cloned, and that advert is probably a scam.Common for boats on ebay, it seems.

 

[Mistroma]

It's run by The Friday Media Group Limited which used to be Friday-Ad and that was one of the original classified papers in the UK. I think that it has been around for more than 10 years so the site is probably genuine, unless it was sold on recently. But I don't suppose that means that the ads. are all genuine. I can't see how they would be able to check that all ads were on the level, but you could say the same about any similar site.

 

[V1701]

The site is genuine, it could well be that the owner is advertising separately & at a lower price than the price the broker is showing. I've seen this quite a few times, on Apollo Duck as well. The premium rate phone thing IIRC is an option when placing an ad on boats&outboards that can be used to protect the sellers private phone details, which of course it does, but boats&outboards will also make a profit on the premium rate numbers...

 

[oldgit]

Have sold two boats via B&O.
No problems.

 

[dylanwinter]

I have used it a lot

Have sold two boats via B&O.
No problems.

it is brilliant

sold and bought quite a few boats through it

never been ripped

D

 

[Yantlet]

I know nothing about Boats And Outboards but they sure have interesting boats for sale - how about this old timer?
www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/sailing-dinghies/fairey-firefly-35-PAA63312

 

[banger]

I have used them lots for buying and selling, very good site and it does the business, I also use Appollo Duck, another good one, If I am selling I usually use both at the same time.

 

[V1701]

Info about the phone service here:
http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/article/Privacy_service/