I have sold many items on ebay including a boat, I have also bought the
2002 Truck I own and my current boat on ebay.

Ebay is a buyers market, unless you have something unique. you are not going
to get top dollar for anything on ebay unless it is unique.
The way I think you should have went with your auction is to have set a
lower buy it now, forget about getting $40k. set buy it now for $38k.
Be willing to take less for a quick sale. start the bidding at say $25k with
a reserve at $37k. that way you get interest in the boat because no one
knows what it will sell for. and the bargains hunters will watch and bid on
it as well. Pretty much all bidding happens as soon as you list the item and
in the last hour. Many people look at "newly listed" to take advantage of
good deals, But the real bidding happens in the last few minutes.

Kevin


"Chris" wrote in message
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Hello everyone,

We're selling a boat on Ebay for the first time at

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=2452145 905
but not getting any bids. Does everything seem in order in my auction?
Do
you have any suggestions as to how I can approve it? The reason we're
starting the price at $37k is because that is the least we'd like to take
for the boat. It is worth much more according to local marinas. At any
rate, they charge $40 to list the boat and then $40 when someone bids, so
we
didn't want to set the auction start at $1 for instance and set our
reserve
at $37k. Thank you in advance for any of your suggestions.