The Best way to sell your boat

[NorthernWave]

What in your opinion is the best/fastest/best value way to sell a boat. Are the brokers all they're cracked up to be? Would you be better putting an add in MBM or autotrader?

Just a consideration as I may be selling in the next year or two.

Chris

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[dignity]

Try the internet, there's loads of sites, most of them you can advertise free of charge, if you don't sell it you've lost nothing. I must say I've had some good results on many occasions.

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[Chris_d]

Have sold all my previous boats through "Boats for Sale" magazine, i think they put it on their website as well.

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[duncan]

at the risk of stating the obvious....put yourself in the position of a buyer
1. walk into WHSmith and see what they would give someone who wanted to find boats for sale
2. use both address bar and Google search for 'boats for sale' and see what comes up, whether they are easy to use - including free, non registered access for buyers
3.consider brokerage with main dealers for your marque especially if newish and you are selling between April and June...........

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

I have always found the best way to sell a boat is to find a broker who specialises in your particular boat - one of the Thames brokers may be best for a Birchwood - and then take advantage of any free mooring offer that they might have. It still amazes me but people walk in off the street and buy what they see so if it ain't there, it wont sell. Also, if its outside the brokers office window, it's constantly reminding him that it's costing him mooring fees so he better sell it quick

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[NorthernWave]

I am thinking of either selling her or converting her for wheelchair use so as to then charter (skippered) but not sure if the birchwood is a little too much work to convert?

Chris



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[jfm]

Chris:
What's all this? Do charter boats now have to be wheelchair compliant?

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[tcm]

hm. He is gonna saw his boat up and put planks abut for wheelchair-bound people. Who are, as we all know, extremely numerous, and they go to the sports megastore at least 6 at a time, same with the DIY shops, these also having plenty of parking for the wheelchair types.

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[jfm]

Wheelchair access

Just wait till you build your new house under latest building regs. This house we're having knocked together, we have to make the downstairs loo, all the internal doors, and the front door threshold, wheelchair friendly. The lightswitches now have to be low down and the 13A sockets all have to be high up. And the planners told us we cant have gravel on the drive becuase wheelchairs dont run well on gravel. And we have to have a long ramp up to the doorstep. To hell with what we want, we're just the house owners and builders and the people who will live there, that's all. No, we have to make the house suit a non-existent wheelchair possible visitor one day in the future. All at our own expense, and even though 99% of the other houses in UK do not have to comply becos they happened to be built before last April. Rant over

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[NorthernWave]

Re: Wheelchair access

Just had the idea that people with disabilities would enjoy boating (power!!) and it would widen the scope for charter.

Chris

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[Dave_Snelson]

One of the best Internet sites is...

Chris,

Should you decide to sell, try the Internet and you probably won't do any better than <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk>http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk</A>

I have used this site and it was brilliant for me. Cheers.

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[david_e]

Start fairly soon at massively high price, not unusual to take a year or so to sell, I've seen some that are still for sale 3 years down the line.

Are you trading up/down or.......?

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[petem]

Shame on you

I think this wheel chair business is a good idea (and I'm the least PC person you'll ever meet). Why should it make any difference if you're building one house or 10,000. Same rules should apply. Anyway, who's to say you won't have a disabled visitor, sell your house to someone disabled or perish the thought become disabled yourself?

My rental house that I bought last year has all the disabled designs incorporated (wide doors, downstair bog, low switches, low thresholds, etc) and IMHO it's all pretty sensible stuff. And I didn't mind paying for it. I wonder how much extra it will cost to make your build wheel chair friendly <1%?

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