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Chuck Gould Chuck Gould is offline
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On Feb 14, 11:32�am, "Corsair23" wrote:
On Feb 13, 2:06 pm, "blentz" wrote:

Getting ready to purchase a brand spankin' new 34' crusier. $250K
+MSRP. What kind of discount should i be looking for off of MSRP in
order to get a "fair" deal. Not looking to break the bank or the
dealer, i need him to make $$ so that he can fix what ever breaks
under warranty!


thanks in advance,


Bob


Did you get a hard-on bragging about this? Did this statement make
your small penis seem bigger?
Rich ****s like you that spend a quarter million on a boat, make me
sick.Help the poor asswipe....then MAYBE you'll be rewarded after
death. Actually, I hope the ****er sinks as soon as you cast off!
Your probably another ****stain who hides money offshore so he wont
have to pay tax on it, aren't you?
Another economy raping CEO probably.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *Your Worst ****ing Nightmare



Get real.

This is 2007, not the 1950's. Scrimping and saving to spend $250,000
on a boat doesn't put anybody into the "rich ***k" category. Hate to
break it to you, but $250,000 is not much money in this day and age.
2-3 times the price of a luxury car, or about a year's income for a
family with two breadwinners in upper-middle management at decent
jobs.

Spending a year's income on a boat is not ridiculous, especially as it
can be an enduring asset that will can be owned and enjoyed for 15-20
years and the money put into the boat would normally have gone into
some other form of recreational spending (skiing, flights to Europe,
time share condo, etc) if it weren't being spent on the boat.

Most people who own and enjoy a decent boat do so *instead* of
something else, not in addition to everything everybody else is
enjoying.

I just did a photo shoot on and write-up on a boat that is $3.4mm. Now
in my opinion that's getting pretty well out of sight for the majority
of us, and whoever winds up owning it proably could be considered
"rich" by most standards- yet I wouldn't be surprised in the least if
the 1/10 of 1% of the population able to comfortably afford such a
boat were once again spending only about a year's income (maybe much
less) on its purchase.

So if you're spending weekends in a 1969 16' Reinell with a rotten
plywood transom and an engine that blows more oil than the Exxon
Valdez, (and if that represents a year's income to you) it's probably
not the fault of people who own modest boats like a 34-footer. Why
take your anger out on somebody who possibly made better choices along
the line? Your first problem, apparently, is that you think $250,000
is still a lot of money.......in an era where "millionaires" are as
common as "hundred-thousandaires" were maybe 15-20 years ago. (If I
saw $1mm blowing down the street you can bet I'd stop to scoop it up,
but if I ever got lucky enough to have that sort of money I'd never
claim to be "rich" in the modern economy). In November 2006, the
average American household had a net worth of $465,000. Considering
the 10's of millions of Americans living in near poverty (or worse),
there are a lot of multi-million net worths out there in this day and
age to bring the average up to $465,000.

Cite:


http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...00Million.aspx

Your second problem may have something to do with your anger that
somebody is enjoying a moderate amount of success in life. Who knows?
With a check-up from the neck up you too could soon be earning at a
rate that would allow you to afford a $250,000 boat.

Condolences to the OP who ventured into rec.boats to meet up with a
hostile response from some guy who needed to make repeated references
to the male
organ. Do stick around, this type of nonsense used to be, but isn't
really any longer commonly encountered here.