Brokers advertising boats that are not actually for sale

[volvopaul]

This has always happened since Noahs days.

I remember seeing my old 410 listed with another broker , I spent 20 minutes on the phone with him, it was great fun as he hung himself out to dry over and over again replying to my questions about the boat in the hope I wanted to view it, making any old crap up.
In the end I put him out his misery telling him to de list it immediately

 

[oldgit]

Anything decent will be gone before it gets on the market. Anything else up for sale after any time has probably got hidden problems.
Boat we looked at was sold days after the seller asked the broker to list, even though it had a impressive Staycation price tag + the prerequisite moored on Thames 10% price penalty.

 

[Jim@sea]

AS per the title,

seems some brokers have boats on their websites advertised for silly money but then find out boat is not actually for sale.

Seems to be used as click bait,

Frustrating to say the least, has anyone else come across this ? Is it actually legal advertising a boat that's not actually for sale ?

Many years ago when I had money I was in Portugal and drove 200 miles to look at a boat which was up for sale. It was up for silly money and slightly damaged, the broker said he knew it was up for sale at silly money and the owner would not drop the price. A week later it was sold. Just shows that sometimes sellers get lucky. There used to be an expression which brokers dont seem to use these days "Seriously for sale"

 

[oldgit]

There used to be an expression which brokers dont seem to use these days "Seriously for sale"

aka ..........................Desperate to see the back of at any price. ?

Staycation Inflation + Restriction in Choice.

In ye olden days, with far more boats than buyers, you could have a real result with a "As seen and lying bid" in the type of boats most of the population could afford.
If you had the bottle to take a risk.
A seller anxious to get rid of his particular money pit could be competing against several other sellers and the thought of going through that tedious offer/survey / renegotiation palaver as opposed to a offer you £XXXX in your bank account within 24 hours was possibly attractive.
Those days are gone for now ?
Knowing the actual selling prices being achieved by some pretty dire examples of boats needing serious amounts of work due to long term neglect, merely to get them back into some sort of semi safe and semi reliable use , doubt they will be back any time soon.

 

[JohnnyCyber]

Dailyboats.com are listing the same boat with different brokers and varying prices for the same boat. I called one of the brokers supposedly listing the boat and they said they never had this boat for sale. This site needs to be taken down, as It's making a complete sh1t of the market...

 

[Hunterlees]

Well known as a scam for years….

 

[JohnnyCyber]

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Thanks for the response. Very much appreciated