On Oct 25, 7:06?pm, Ron wrote:
SoCalYachtBroker wrote roups.com:

The boat re-sale market has changed considerably over the past few
months.

Up here in BC, seeing the opposite, mind you I'm watching 20'bowriders
mostly, not bathtubs with parachutes :-)

As economy perks along at full tilt more and more are buying, and with such
a strong canuck dollar american boats looked good but now they are trying
to gouge canuck buyers. Ads on craiglist and such are $k's higher than
just a few months ago as they try to take advantage of CAN$.
Ron

How can the brokers gouge Canadian buyers?

It's illegal in the US to demand more than the advertised price for a
boat. (The buyer is free to offer more than the advertised price, in a
"bidding war", for example).

No way can somebody say, "Yeah, we're advertising the boat for
$90,000- but if somebody from Canada wants to buy it we need $105k"

From the perspective of advertising, the same prices are offered to
all comers. Putting a ridiculously high price on a boat just in case a
Canadian buyer with some supercharged currency happens along doesn't
make much sense......most of the business is *still* going to be
local, and a ridiculously high price will keep the phone from ringing
and the web site will be a ghost town.