You think house buying & divorce is stressy - try buying a boat!

[kcrane]

Re: You think house buying & divorce is stressy - try buying a boat!

Must jump in and add another vote for Multihull World, either Mark or Mike, both sail the boats they sell & know their stuff.

Same as Talbot, I've no experience of selling.

 

[Kurrawong_Kid]

There are timewasters and seriously looking timewasters! An earlier post stated that he had looked at 15 boats before buying. In a buyers' market there will appear to be a lot of timewasters! An experienced sailing friend of mine has been travelling all over the country looking at about 5 types of boat nd he's looked at about 4 each. Mind now made up and he's in process of making offer-timewaster moves on to buyer. It's the way it is.

 

[Strathglass]

Yes,

That's what was said.

The car salesmen around here ( west Fife) seem to be in a world of their own.

I bought my last car in Peterhead and got a £2000 better trade in than I had been offered locally.

A bit sad isn't it?

Iain

 

[CalmSkipper]

I wonder if this is because I am a female and didn’t have a male in tow? .............


Jane - I'm male, looked at similar number of boats (pleased to say have found something!) and had identical treatment. A few good, professional brokers, a lot of complacant ones and some...well you just wonder how they are still in business!. Nothing to do with your being a lady. A general lack of professionalism appears to be rife.

 

[nicho]

If you are selling, try the MBM boats for sale site. We sold our Bavaria in three weeks, money in the bank five days later, boat left us two days after that - no hassle at all!! Total cost to us £137 (that was 18 months ago), and we got to within £4000 of asking price. Sod the brokers, most charge 6%, and most aren't worth 1%!

 

[rhumlady]

Wait till you get to surveyors!! But I supose they are both in the same association mostly.

 

[sailorgirl]

Women buying cars

I've been asked by a car dealer as his first question "what colour" - needless to say I didn't reveal my budget (sizeable company car loan) or my taste for sporty cars and left the show room!

 

[ShipsWoofy]

Re: Women buying cars

It can be difficult as some women really do glaze over..

I worked in a garage, you know the type, a couple of pumps and a big workshop. There are not many left.

Young women would arrive with their dads in tow to pick up cars. The daughter would ask what had been wrong with it, though it was normally the father who asked. I would always try to answer the woman, as after all it was her car. It is hard to talk to a glazed over expression, I was not a mechanic (keen amateur, but worked there to supplement training wages). I would not do the mechanic thing of trying to blind with science.

Most women in that situation seemed happy to pass on the problems. Some however did want to learn and often I would teach them how to put air in the tyres or check fluids, apparently their spouses decided they could not or should not do it. I wonder how many I upset by helping the women.

Maybe if I had worked there full time I would have learnt to treat women as the little woman indoors who should only have a little run-about.

 

[Emjaytoo]

Re: You think house buying & divorce is stressy - try buying a boat!

To make it really stressfull, go to LIBS, hand over your cheque for £1,000 deposit on new boat, go home and work out to sell your old one before the new delivery date at end of April, given that mortgage on old boat has to be discharged before funds are advanced upon new boat.

We are only 3 days into the process and already I sense SWiMBO getting uncomfortable and she's not the only one!