I guess ebay, watched carefully, can be a better than average indicator
since you can eventually see what a boat or anything else actually sold
for. Watching "for sale" ads isn't a good inidicator of selling prices
in general because that only indicates what people are "asking" for a
boat, and there's no limit to what you can ask.

The statistics I'm sharing here are for one of the 50 states and for a
3-month period. No way to project anything absolutely definite on a
national basis from these, of course.

One thing. Two years ago, I bought my little Chris Craft Scorpion 169
on Ebay with a BIN of $1500.00

The seller took very high quality pictures. and his discription was
dead on. The boat is very nice and the interior is high quality.

There are two other 169's on Ebay right now, and one is an absolute
identical boat as mine, you would swear they were the same boat, that
is with exception of a couple minor differences. One has 4 days to go
and it at $2200.00 now, and the identical one as mine just closed at
$2380.

I feel I got a heck of a deal on mine. But then again, it also might be
that I bought mine in the fall of the year, when the boating season was
al most over.

Two years later, with way higher fuel prices, and the used market
goes...up?