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Chuck Gould Chuck Gould is offline
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Default Craig's List for selling boats...

On Mar 29, 7:33�am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Wow - one response in 18 hours.

That's incredible. *:)


Actually, that's not too bad.

Especially if your boat is realistically priced.

General rule: If the phone is ringing off the hook it's because you're
underpriced. Folks willing to take a bit of time to find that point in
the marketplace where a willing buyer will just barely agree to pay a
willing seller what it takes to do business will find the time is well
spent.

Eisboch acknowledges that he priced his boat at about half the current
market value just to get rid of it quickly. Craigslist worked well for
him given the parameters of his expectations- even though it appears
that the boat might have gone to a dealer posing as a private party.

The suggestions about adding a photo are spot on. About the only thing
worse than leaving out any sort of photo is advertising without a
price.