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Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat
here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD |
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MD wrote:
Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD This is the best time to sell the boat. I would recommend using the local paper, and any FREE online services. Rec.boats and other NG's are not an effective venue to advertise for sale products. |
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![]() "MD" wrote in message oups.com... Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD Put it on the market ASAP. If it does not sell by the 4th of July chances are you will have to drop the price to get it sold. |
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![]() "MD" wrote in message oups.com... Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD Now, and go for Craigslist first thing. |
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:38:27 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote: Now, and go for Craigslist first thing. Good advice, now is the time. |
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On Mar 25, 9:44�am, "MD" wrote:
* * * *Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. *I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. *Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. *I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. *I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. *What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. *I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. *Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD I Tried for a couple of months to sell a 20 foot Shamrock. I used the news paper, BoatUS and Craigs list. I got very few responces from thes sources. I listed with Boat Crazy and got a lot more inquireys and a sale. You pay for one month and if you haven't sold it at the end of the month they will rerun for free until you sell. Thanks Ron |
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On Mar 25, 8:44�am, "MD" wrote:
* * * *Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. *I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. *Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. *I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. *I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. *What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. *I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. *Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD It's almost April 1. You have about a month of prime selling season left. People want a boat for Memorial Day Weekend, and they want to have it a couple of weeks ahead of time to get it set up properly. Between whenever it thaws out in your neighborhood and the first of May is your best chance to get top dollar. Advertise it everywhere you can. Most FSBO ads are cheap, a lot are free, and most are only moderately effective so you need several of them working at once. Your eventual buyer will answer one of those ads- but since you don't know in advance *which* one, you need to take a shotgun approach. If it's still sitting in your driveway after April 30, it's literally "mayday" on the price front. Since you have a short window of time and this is the month when *everybody* has their unwanted boat for sale, start with a realistic price. In a lot of cases you start really high and hope that the buyer will dicker you down- but when a short season market is topsy turvy with a lot more supply than demand buyers are less likely to hassle with trying to dicker down to "fair" price. Buyers with a lot of choices typicaly hope to find a boat with a fair asking price, *then* dicker down a bit, and feel like they got more boat than they paid for. If the boat doesn't sell pretty quickly after you start to market it, it will either be price or condition that impedes your sale. If you have a lot of bait dangling by using a variety of ads but the phone doesn't ring or the email doesn't do whatever email does you can be pretty sure the problem is your price. People will be looking at the ad and concluding "Wouldn't matter how nice that boat is, it couldn't possibly be worth that!" (That's also why it's important to use several sources- there's a chance that one ad venue might be really weak and could be blamed for a lack of calls, but if you've got the boat advertised almost everywhere it's tougher to conclude that none of the magazines or websites are working.) If you get a few showings and folks are walking off with the standard, "Thanks, we'll think about it. We have a bunch of boats to see before we decide" that normally indicates that the issue is condition. Could be dirt, smell, damage, excess wear, or any number of things but if more than a couple of people drive out to your house knowing what you have for sale and knowing what you're asking for it and then make a clumsy exit, something about the boat will be turning them off. After May 1, cut the price. Everybody else will be cutting theirs. Like JimH said, after the end of June, first of July, you will probably need to cut the price down to a lot less than you hoped to get for it to find a buyer at all. This year the Fourth of July is a Wednesday, so no long weekend for most guys punching a time clock. The long weekends are going to be Memorial Day and Labor Day, and fewer people will be out in August trying to buy a boat for Labor Day weekend than will be out in the next 5-6 weeks trying to buy a boat for Memorial Day. Another reason to price it to sell ASAP: if fuel prices continue to rise between now and Memorial Day and then stay high through midsummer (as they have done the last two years) it will really hammer the market value of a wide variety of boats. Every two-bits the price of gas goes up drives away another chunk of the market. |
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On Mar 26, 4:48 am, "Chuck Gould" wrote:
On Mar 25, 8:44?am, "MD" wrote: ? ? ? ?Through a long chain of events that I don't want to repeat here, I have come into the ownership of a nice 4-year old ski boat although I am not really a boater. ?I rode it once in the fall, and it performed well. ?Also, a very good mechanic checked it over and told me it was in really good shape. ?I live in Cincinnati and my question is what is the selling season for this type of boat. ?I am assuming that right now is the absolute best time to sell the boat, but I don't know if that is the case. ?What I would really like to know is when the boating selling season practically ends in Cincinnati -- May, June, July, whatever. ?I am getting all sorts of different advice about the boat, and my main concern now is deciding what my time frame for selling is. ?Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MD It's almost April 1. You have about a month of prime selling season left. People want a boat for Memorial Day Weekend, and they want to have it a couple of weeks ahead of time to get it set up properly. Between whenever it thaws out in your neighborhood and the first of May is your best chance to get top dollar. Advertise it everywhere you can. Most FSBO ads are cheap, a lot are free, and most are only moderately effective so you need several of them working at once. Your eventual buyer will answer one of those ads- but since you don't know in advance *which* one, you need to take a shotgun approach. If it's still sitting in your driveway after April 30, it's literally "mayday" on the price front. Since you have a short window of time and this is the month when *everybody* has their unwanted boat for sale, start with a realistic price. In a lot of cases you start really high and hope that the buyer will dicker you down- but when a short season market is topsy turvy with a lot more supply than demand buyers are less likely to hassle with trying to dicker down to "fair" price. Buyers with a lot of choices typicaly hope to find a boat with a fair asking price, *then* dicker down a bit, and feel like they got more boat than they paid for. If the boat doesn't sell pretty quickly after you start to market it, it will either be price or condition that impedes your sale. If you have a lot of bait dangling by using a variety of ads but the phone doesn't ring or the email doesn't do whatever email does you can be pretty sure the problem is your price. People will be looking at the ad and concluding "Wouldn't matter how nice that boat is, it couldn't possibly be worth that!" (That's also why it's important to use several sources- there's a chance that one ad venue might be really weak and could be blamed for a lack of calls, but if you've got the boat advertised almost everywhere it's tougher to conclude that none of the magazines or websites are working.) If you get a few showings and folks are walking off with the standard, "Thanks, we'll think about it. We have a bunch of boats to see before we decide" that normally indicates that the issue is condition. Could be dirt, smell, damage, excess wear, or any number of things but if more than a couple of people drive out to your house knowing what you have for sale and knowing what you're asking for it and then make a clumsy exit, something about the boat will be turning them off. After May 1, cut the price. Everybody else will be cutting theirs. Like JimH said, after the end of June, first of July, you will probably need to cut the price down to a lot less than you hoped to get for it to find a buyer at all. This year the Fourth of July is a Wednesday, so no long weekend for most guys punching a time clock. The long weekends are going to be Memorial Day and Labor Day, and fewer people will be out in August trying to buy a boat for Labor Day weekend than will be out in the next 5-6 weeks trying to buy a boat for Memorial Day. Another reason to price it to sell ASAP: if fuel prices continue to rise between now and Memorial Day and then stay high through midsummer (as they have done the last two years) it will really hammer the market value of a wide variety of boats. Every two-bits the price of gas goes up drives away another chunk of the market. Thanks to you and the other posters for your very helpful replies. MD |
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