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If a person wants to sell their house/flat (home dur) no matter what estate agent they go with, those agents always use Rightmove. End of story. But a boat which is often expensive, well how many flippin sites are there....
 
Little Ricky said:
If a person wants to sell their house/flat (home dur) no matter what estate agent they go with, those agents always use Rightmove. End of story. But a boat which is often expensive, well how many flippin sites are there....
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Opertunity for you.
 
Rightmove doesn't sell houses, all it does is introduce buyers. It's up to the agent to then convert the prospect to a purchaser.

In the same way, a CV/resume doesn't get you a job, it gets you an interview and you take it from there, it's up to the candidate to sell themselves.

Same as boats, a decent broker will be known in the industry and have a database of prospects. How they generate their prospects may or may not be one of the portals.

Quite often, and I'm sure it will be the same with boats, the prospect ends up buying a different house or car than the one they saw advertised.

My last two houses sold for 35% more than 2-3 other agents had suggested because I chose agents based on the market they were operating in.

Butler Sherbourn for a Cotswold house and Savills for a home counties property. Both agents did an outstanding job from start to finish.

Back to boats, there are a whole range of choices, Gumtree, Ebay, Facebook, Apollo Duck to Ancasta and other brand associated brokers.

As they say, you pays your money and makes your choice.
 
wonkywinch said:
ightmove doesn't sell houses, all it does is introduce buyers. It's up to the agent to then convert the prospect to a purchaser.

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Back to boats, there are a whole range of choices, Gumtree, Ebay, Facebook, Apollo Duck to Ancasta and other brand associated brokers.

As they say, you pays your money and makes your choice.
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I'm guessing the OP is buying not selling - that does actually make the need for a "central" service stronger - geographic constraints aren't the same. Last time I was in the market "TheYachtMarket.com" seemed to be trying to be the rightmove for boats. Most brokers were at least listing their more expensive offerings there. Not sure if that has grown/plateaued/shrunk in the intervening years - prices are no longer booming and presumably sale times have increased, which, if you pay per week might make it less attractive as a platform.
 
ylop said:
I'm guessing the OP is buying not selling - that does actually make the need for a "central" service stronger - geographic constraints aren't the same. Last time I was in the market "TheYachtMarket.com" seemed to be trying to be the rightmove for boats. Most brokers were at least listing their more expensive offerings there. Not sure if that has grown/plateaued/shrunk in the intervening years - prices are no longer booming and presumably sale times have increased, which, if you pay per week might make it less attractive as a platform.
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I assumed selling as his opening words were "If a person wants to sell" ..

Buying is surely easier using Google?
 
If I had to pick one place to look for a boat it'd be Apollo Duck - most brokers put their listings on there & it's also where the more serious private seller would. Selling mine (privately) at the moment, it's already on Apollo Duck, a couple of Facebook groups & there'll be an ebay classified ad soon...
 
ylop said:
maybe - but then as you say its the broker's problem

I dont think so - google isn't a great tool for finding things which are still for sale within a particular area, price, size etc...
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Have you tried using Google operators as I mentioned in this thread?

wonkywinch

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RunAgroundHard said:
@wonkywinch thanks for the guidance and advice on searching.
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It works really well with websites that don't have a very good search engine.

There are loads of other useful Google search operators, for example, the ones I use most :

filetype: filetype: jpg

before: yyyy/mm/dd raymarine before:2024-12-31

after: yyy/mm/dd rocna anchor after:2023-09-21

exact phrase match, put inverted commas around phrase "20mm mooring line"
You can combine the operators, eg site:forums.ybw.com "rocna anchor"...
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I entered "hallberg rassy 36 for sale after:01/01/2026" into Google and it replied ..

Add a few more conditional operators and Google is very powerful.

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