you must be the salesperson with the snakeskin belt white sport jacket and white patten leather shoes!!!!!!!!!!:head:

Friend text me - hey there's a V20 for sale says excellent condition nearby !!!

I look and text back - yeh, I looked at that boat - the transom's getting ready to fall off !!!
Crap boat.

Only slightly exaggerating. Transom buckling, swollen with water, and cracked.

You make a good point, I listed my motor as flawless and that does seem a bit much. I usually say "proper running order" but I'm just proud of the way it has run since I got it at 50 hr. As for the boat, if anyone can find a soft spot I'll buy you a case of your favorite beer.......and help you drink it.:sly:

I had an 05 Rude 200 DFI - great engine. That is one good outboard for sure.

Bring it up here to NJ, I'll check it out, and if it checks out to my liking, I'll buy it.
Asking price, not cut.

Hey, what can I do buddy - you're down there.......and I'm up here. !!

Cool rig. Fast too.

Yeah...misrepresenting what yer selling is a pisser alright....I find sellers who talk too fast and too much are usually hiding something...

In the end it boils down buyer beware...

I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I've got a 17' center console for sale with a rotten transom and a 70's era 115 merc that hasn't been run in 7 years. It's sitting on a galvinized trailer that is in decent shape. I'm asking 300 dollars for the whole rig, and I get phone calls like this:

RING RING

Me: "Hello"
Them: "Yeah Main, Imma callin bout that boat ya got sittin in yer frawnt yard."
Me: "Yeah man what can I tell you about it?"
Them: (First question out of the gate) "Is 3 hunert the lowest you'll go?"
Me: "Over the phone, uh Yeah".
Them: "Everything werks onit rite?"
Me: "Uh, No man It's a project. If everything worked on it I'd be asking about ten times as much."
Them: "Uh... well... uh, will ya take payments?"
Me: "No man, sorry"

It sucks trying to sell anything these days. I hardly list anything on craigslist anymore because some yahoo from hinesville will waste your entire afternoon while you wait for him to drive to the coast to buy a $50 item and then not show.

Whenever I list anything on Craigs I always put in lines that says something like the first one with cash gets it, I will not hold it for anyone, even if they've been out to look at it already, and I put in the times and days that it's available for viewing. Doesn't work all the time, but it does help. :head:

So many junk boats out there...........so little time........

I'm just trying to understand how the price a person paid for the boat can influence the current value of the thing (this actually seems to go for everything these days).

This was a local advert from a few weeks ago, used as an example.
1977 Glastron trihull, 16"[sic] with 70 evenrued[sic]. Runs good and needs TLC. Paid $6300. Will sell for $5000. My loss is you're[sic] gain.

Really?

I'm looking for a used chartplotter and I am amazed how everyone wants to sell them for 70% of the cost of a new one without including the antenna or various other bits, which will put you to the cost of a new plotter which will come with maps preloaded. The worst part is that there are a lot of short sighted suckers out there who are buying this stuff at this inflated price.

Hard to be a bargain hunter in a depressed economy.