Powerhead question

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Striper80

Destroyer, you know the ride from Cherry Hill to north Jersey. I was just surprised that a guy I spent an hour on the phone with talking about an engine would have an issue. I guess he thought my 89 was going to look like a 98. I just wanted to double check with the guys on the board to be sure that I wasn't delusional. I'm a stand up guy and I'm honest, maybe to a fault, but I prefer to sleep at night. If I sell something I prefer to be fair and have the next guy be able to enjoy my loss. Makes me a shot salesmen.

Striper, my apologies to you if you thought that I was intimating that you were not being totally honest. I never meant that in any way, shape or form. Just from your post here on the subject it's apparent you're a stand up kind of guy. Actually I was sorta giving advice to everyone here on how to sell an item, be it a boat, engine, car, truck or glass figurine. Making money is always good, but sometimes people lose sight of what is really important in life. I totally believe that what goes around comes around. Call it karma, call it whatever you want. To me, being able to sleep at night and feeling good about yourself is much more important than making a few extra bucks.

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Striper, my apologies to you if you thought that I was intimating that you were not being totally honest. I never meant that in any way, shape or form. Just from your post here on the subject it's apparent you're a stand up kind of guy. Actually I was sorta giving advice to everyone here on how to sell an item, be it a boat, engine, car, truck or glass figurine. Making money is always good, but sometimes people lose sight of what is really important in life. I totally believe that what goes around comes around. Call it karma, call it whatever you want. To me, being able to sleep at night and feeling good about yourself is much more important than making a few extra bucks.

I didn't take your comment that way at all. I completely agree. I got the feeling like this guy wanted to chew me down without haggling. He made me laugh when he was staring at a casting line in the cylinder head and said it concerned him.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Striper80

I didn't take your comment that way at all. I completely agree. I got the feeling like this guy wanted to chew me down without haggling. He made me laugh when he was staring at a casting line in the cylinder head and said it concerned him.

Yep, that's the kind of guy that will never be satisfied. AVOID them at all costs.

[spareparts]

I went thru this when I sold my proline, I had one person after another try to tell me about my boat and what was wrong with it. I "educated" a few of them but got tired of it after a while. After that when some one started slamming the boat trying to get me down on my price, I just walked inside the hose and closed the door. It was a 20 ft center console on a tandem trailer that was turn key for $4000. I won't even begin to list the things I had done to it. People would start questioning the status of something and I would tell them I had just replaced, rebuilt, serviced or fixed it. The guy who bought it was a friend of a friend. He asked me my lowest priced, I told him $3500. He drove down from Raleigh, I went ahead and told him up front that if he offered $1 less, he just wasted a trip down here. He took the boat and enjoyed it for two years, sold it to someone else

[bradford]

I was thinking about that boat today Spare, a friend is in the market for a 18-20 center console. That one would have been a perfect match.

I love it when they call and low ball you on the phone without even seeing it. I've added a $100 to the craigslist price before. They say, "Well your ad says it's X price"????, I say, yeah, but i'm gonna charge you more.

Gets you a few akward seconds of silence.

[spareparts]

Originally Posted by bradford

I was thinking about that boat today Spare, a friend is in the market for a 18-20 center console. That one would have been a perfect match.

I love it when they call and low ball you on the phone without even seeing it. I've added a $100 to the craigslist price before. They say, "Well your ad says it's X price"????, I say, yeah, but i'm gonna charge you more.

Gets you a few akward seconds of silence.

Funny thing is, that boat ended up coming back down here, its up on Lake Moultrie with some fishing guide. I haven't seen it. I hear he put a new four stroke on it.