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Boat Prices These days?
I know this is a boating question but curious what the OT boaters think. Owned several POS boats to high end offshore boats. Been boatless for the first time in my life for 5 years. Getting back into it and the prices in the last 10 years have doubled in a bad economy. Mine in my business are the same except for equipment that is higher end.
100K for a 24 bay boat seems insane.
I bought a 2004 36 Contender in 2006 fully loaded with trip four strokes and 225 hours like new for 100K My 21 Key West Bay Reef brand new was 30k in 2008.
10 years later they want more than that used. I don't get it.
Here is the kicker, 22 Sea Ark metal boat and a 22 Carolina rolled gunnel skiff 35k new.LOL
Any other boat shoppers finding this?
I want to buy used but doesn't seem worth it
100K for a 24 bay boat seems insane.
I bought a 2004 36 Contender in 2006 fully loaded with trip four strokes and 225 hours like new for 100K My 21 Key West Bay Reef brand new was 30k in 2008.
10 years later they want more than that used. I don't get it.
Here is the kicker, 22 Sea Ark metal boat and a 22 Carolina rolled gunnel skiff 35k new.LOL
Any other boat shoppers finding this?
I want to buy used but doesn't seem worth it
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I know my Friend...I know..
I don't get why people complain about the price of things, it is market conditons, what DEMAND prices them at...
Just kiding of course as I stand firm against having to do this past the age of 30 !
In all honesty you may have to wait for an economic downturn, until someone else is hurting and has to sell. You could have practically stole any boat from 2010 - 2013, maybe 14. I see those in charge now running the gambit of fluctuation. Severe cycles coming every 5 - 7 years as the squeeze prices, and take ever penny from the working class. They prepare for it. I think they see the working class as dumb and they can manipulate.
Thus, drive up prices now, sell homes, cars, boats, etc. THEY KNOW that the price of a house should not be 260K in 2006, then 120K in 2011, and then back to 220K now. That house is really only worth 160 ? 180? tops and yety, we are doing it again ! Right in front of our faces like before, we have seen this and still fall for it ! Create a small recession, force all that away from 20% reaping the benefits of gold prices and shorting the 401K stock portfolio. Wash, rinse, repeat...
Just like the big outcry over brexit, big deal and nothing really happened except they made millions shorting stocks, then buying them back at a lower cost which they will sell in a week. Just imagine having a million to play with on this market... Easy money... 10 % swings all the time, 100K anyone !
Curious that so many don't see a looming problem with price fixing...
Wont be long now until you have to pay for your browser. Want to watch you tube (need chrome) want to use exel or word, you will need Explorer and the yearly fee package that microsoft is going to charge you... All part of the grand plan to keep you on the hook... All thought out really well from a round table of crooks...
:shrug
Don't let this happen to you...:nono
I AM NOT A RACIST
Bull to the ****!!!!!
That's without the engine.
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It's true. There are deals out there, but they seem harder to find theses days. Looking for an inexpensive bay skiff this go around.
You better buy a bigger boat so you can take all your techs out fishing to keep them happy. :wink
My friends loaded 36' in very good condition couldn't get 100K for it in 07 or 08.
It ended up going for 95K and the boat broker still got his cut.
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That's what I want to do. Get an older late 70s or early 80s robalo or Aquasport and throw a 4 stroke on it. Figuring i can do it for at or under 20k. depending on what i find.
I stand corrected. My apologies AC Man.
I was very sad when I saw that boat leave.
Wet ride, but still a bad a** ride.
Exactly my point. New ones have gone up so much people want what they paid 10 years ago. Really like the Tidewater, they are getting tired of seeing me at the dealership.:grin
M buddy sold his 34 seavee for 10K more than he bought it, he paid about 120K for and sold it a few years later. He sold it last year.
That's like comparing apples to oranges.
I'm not going to get into details. But I have worked on many of both brands.
I know the Proline and Donzi are different, that is why I said good luck. IF you see a 35ft Donzi for 30K there must be something really wrong with it.
That's nothing new. You have been able to do that for a looong time.
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