I Keep getting offers on my boat

lovezoo said:
I would nominate this picture as the worst of the bunch:

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I mean, why would you want to show anybody that?
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Yes theres no point in that picture at all. First you stuff things away for the photo's, then they photograph it.:confused:

For some reason the photos seem to multiply the smallest imperfections, that are not there really.
 
benjenbav said:
Aaargh, just ignore me. That was the other one wasn't it?:D
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Yup, you're talking about the wrong boat BJB :). That shot is actually my photo with my mates Caroline and Jenny, and the bloke I sold the boat to has kept it and cheekily re-used it! That's the Lerins Islands monastery in the background, not the fort.
 
Selling cars and boats is very similar. How many times do I chuckle when I see fag packets and general crud in photos. Have a look at our 911virgin site. There is a reason we spend thousands of hours a year cleaning and preparing our cars to the degree which allows such close up and probing photography.

Henry :)
 
Perhaps boat prices have hit a brick wall. Certainly fewer people are getting into boating and with the depression (sorry I forgot that we are not allowed to say that word) in a growing economy the 30ft boat owner moves up to a 50ft boat having sold his boat to a speedboat owner who has sold to a first time buyer.
But today there are few first time buyers, not enough to support the growth in manufacturing we have become accustomed to. At one of the UK's longest established Speedboat dealers they have just made redundant their (only) Salesman, not that they have many new boats for sale. But look at the boats, go fast and its 60 liters an hour. Now look at a lot of bigger boats for sale, engine installations from the 1970's. The Princess 33 I bought in 1979 had shaft drive Mermaids which cost peanuts to run as red diesel was 5p a litre. Before In 73 my boat used 20 gall of petrol an hour going from Holyhead to Ireland but petrol was only 3 gallons for £1. (and boats like this are still for sale)
This is the problem, we cant afford to run them anymore. and with respect to the person who started the discussion, if someone can afford £50K for a boat, they dont want an old boat made in 1988 with photos which other people have noticed could be better, they want "New" or Nearly New, perhaps even going for a smaller boat.
Thats the market these days, I eventually took 40% less than I advertised my 1986 boat for, 1 enquiry, just 1 buyer, spent a lot on advertising, It depends what you value most, the money in the bank or your money tied up to a pontoon.
 
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Credit where it's due!

Gotta give Boatshed credit.
I've received an email from them asking if I'd like anymore info on the Princess 35 because they've noticed I've looked at the advert once or twice.
I've never had that from any other broker and I think that's a big plus on their part.
Well done Boatshed.
 
A time to buy.

if someone can afford £50K for a boat, they dont want an old boat made in 1988 with photos which other people have noticed could be better, they want "New" or Nearly New, perhaps even going for a smaller boat.


Sorry have to disagree...a bit.

The deluge of borrowed cheap money that drove the new boat market and then the loss of the "Free Red" diesel which encouraged the use of larger and larger engines to power heavier and faster boats has come to a end,apart from a very select few those days are long gone.
A large number of very nice boats are on the market at very sensible prices and could provide very spacious and economical boating if you can stay away from the throttles.
Virtually nobody will be jumping into a Turbo 36 as a first boat,more likely an upgrade from a smaller boat and now affordable because existing owner having paid 20p a gallon cannot face the prospect of £5.00.An propective upgrader may well want space and grace not some cramped flimsy peche promenade ?
An excellent opportunity to be able to afford a decent boat at a price simply not around two or three years ago and at the sort of money available from your old boat sale plus a bit of cash.
Some bargains to be had for cash buyers,leave the new or nearly new boats to the people who love to borrow and probably got us into the mess we are in now.
 
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Phill said:
Gotta give Boatshed credit.
I've received an email from them asking if I'd like anymore info on the Princess 35 because they've noticed I've looked at the advert once or twice.
I've never had that from any other broker and I think that's a big plus on their part.
Well done Boatshed.
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its an automated thing, easy to do. They ask for your email address as a login so you can view photos...so then they've got you. I'm not saying it is not good, but other brokers could replicate if they all pulled their fingers out their backsides..

I wish we could ask for people's email addresses before they could view our stocklist... but in the market we deal in and the volume of choice out there in the market people would just go to someone else who would show them their stocklist without any tie-ins .. its more the type of thing Henryf could adopt..
 
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Firefly625 said:
its an automated thing, easy to do. They ask for your email address as a login so you can view photos...so then they've got you. I'm not saying it is not good, but other brokers could replicate if they all pulled their fingers out their backsides..

I wish we could ask for people's email addresses before they could view our stocklist... but in the market we deal in and the volume of choice out there in the market people would just go to someone else who would show them their stocklist without any tie-ins .. its more the type of thing Henryf could adopt..
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Don't think it is automated actually. I have looked at quite a lot of boats on Boatshed and sometimes I have had an e- mail and sometimes not. The e- mails have varied in intent too....
 
Best thing to do is photograph the boat when you buy it then use the same pics to sell it on (assuming you've not ruined it in the intervening period)!

I do agree with the others that the photos of HLB's boat are shocking. Also agree that during the initial call a response of "the price is negotiable and I'm keen to sell" but refusing to be drawn into an exact price is the best policy.
 
Greg2 said:
Don't think it is automated actually. I have looked at quite a lot of boats on Boatshed and sometimes I have had an e- mail and sometimes not. The e- mails have varied in intent too....
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Ok, perhaps not automated as such, brokers get emailed a list of boats view and email contacts, number of searches etc, its a good website on that basis. Had a long chat to someone at some stage... indeed there was time when I thought boats might be a good sideline... back of house reporting and contact analysis is one of the draws for brokers to set up a Boatshed brokerage
 
Firefly625 said:
... I, as most on here, probably have looked at hundreds of boats on Boatshed, and my general opinion of Boatshed has always been that it is a second class substitute for a proper brokerage office.



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That would make me want to view this boat... and not surprising its listed with Ancasta.

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You're not seriously suggesting that Ancasta are the doggies dodahs as far as brokers go are you?
 
petem said:
Best thing to do is photograph the boat when you buy it then use the same pics to sell it on (assuming you've not ruined it in the intervening period)!

I do agree with the others that the photos of HLB's boat are shocking. Also agree that during the initial call a response of "the price is negotiable and I'm keen to sell" but refusing to be drawn into an exact price is the best policy.
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agree with all that. If asked are you negotiable on price, your response can always be yes. How much...? Well come and have a look first and we will have a chat.
 
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