On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:00:28 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On 12 Mar 2007 16:33:10 -0700, Chuck Gould penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Mar 12, 3:10?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 12 Mar 2007 14:34:02 -0700, "Chuck Gould"

wrote:
The prices at which boats are actually selling determine the true
market value.

Exactly.

And I guarentee you they aren't selling at $10/12000.

That's odd- the original poster in this thread just reported paying
$10,000 for one of these. (And an examination of 64 different boat ads
discloses that $10,000 is a common offering price for this model, with
some examples a few thousand higher and some examples a few thousand
less). Did he overpay by 66% because NADA says he did, or did he shop
around and decide to pay that price based on comparable offerings?
That's the focus of the question.

Jeeze, Chuck..... an "offering price" is nearly always a *reality
check* for these price point boats. Based on local selling/buying he
most likely got stung. His market might be *really different,* but I
don't know why.....

No, let's not beat up Chuck - he has a lot of experience in this area
and I for one will take his word that NADA is not used by boat dealers
of any good repute.

I'm sure that all those Bayliner owners will sell their boats for well
north of the listed NADA price.

I'll take Chuck at his word.