* Ed Gordon wrote, On 6/6/2007 4:50 PM:
I've spent the past two days looking at used Mac26Xs. I've seen about
half a dozen that were advertised for sale by owner. I was hoping to get
a real bargain but that seems to be too much to hope for. Why? Well,
it's because everybody luvs their Macs. Two of the sellers said they'd
rather just keep their Macs than sell them for a low-ball price. One
other guy says he buys a couple a year, cleans them up and fits them out
and sells them for thousands more than he paid for them. He says he
never has to sit on them for more than a month at most and most sell the
first week he puts them on the market. I've seen several really choice
ones but they wanted more for them than I paid for mine new.

That should tell you Mac bashers something. Macs are holding their
resale value so it means they keep staying very popular. I bet your
heavy keel boat can't make that statement. Compared to a Mac26X they are
a bad investiment.


It tells me there are real idiots buying Macs. I mean, really, if you
can make "thousands" of dollars by cleaning the boat, that can only
mean that there was one person so disgusted with it he wanted to dump
it quickly without even cleaning it, and another person will to pay a
premium because it was shiny.

Jeff wrote in
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* Ed Gordon wrote, On 6/6/2007 4:50 PM:
I've spent the past two days looking at used Mac26Xs. I've seen about
half a dozen that were advertised for sale by owner. I was hoping to
get a real bargain but that seems to be too much to hope for. Why?
Well, it's because everybody luvs their Macs. Two of the sellers said
they'd rather just keep their Macs than sell them for a low-ball
price. One other guy says he buys a couple a year, cleans them up and
fits them out and sells them for thousands more than he paid for
them. He says he never has to sit on them for more than a month at
most and most sell the first week he puts them on the market. I've
seen several really choice ones but they wanted more for them than I
paid for mine new.

That should tell you Mac bashers something. Macs are holding their
resale value so it means they keep staying very popular. I bet your
heavy keel boat can't make that statement. Compared to a Mac26X they
are a bad investiment.


It tells me there are real idiots buying Macs. I mean, really, if you
can make "thousands" of dollars by cleaning the boat, that can only
mean that there was one person so disgusted with it he wanted to dump
it quickly without even cleaning it, and another person will to pay a
premium because it was shiny.




You're the only one here whose an idiot, man. You spent probably two
hours on a post I've gotta answer next and you just wrote lame opinions
and you had some nerve calling them facts. Why do you hate Macs?

People's situtations change. They have a Mac in the driveway and they
have to move or something and they don't want the boat anymore. So they
sell it cheap to keep from having to move it across the country. It's
hard enough moving all their furniture and stuff. And they might be too
far from water to make it easy to go sailing. There's lots of reasons,
man.Use your head. Anything you sell if you detail it you can ask more
for it because it looks sharp. Most people think something that looks
new and shiny must be good and something that looks ratty must be bad.
It's just smart salesmanship.


--
Cheerio,
Ed Gordon
http://www.egordon873.homestead.com/drug.html

* Ed Gordon wrote,
That should tell you Mac bashers something. Macs are holding their
resale value so it means they keep staying very popular.

Definitely!

http://www.sailboatlistings.com/view/5915
http://www.marinesource.com/boat_sal...x_2020030.html
http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listi...oats=1424 670

Price new:
http://www.macgregorsailboats.com/ma...t-pricing.html



..... I bet your
heavy keel boat can't make that statement.

Of course not, boats can't talk.

.... Compared to a Mac26X they are
a bad investiment.

Yep. Definitely.


"Jeff" wrote:
It tells me there are real idiots buying Macs. I mean, really, if you
can make "thousands" of dollars by cleaning the boat, that can only
mean that there was one person so disgusted with it he wanted to dump
it quickly without even cleaning it

It also begs the question, how did it get dirty in the first place?

.... and another person will to pay a
premium because it was shiny.

Shiny! Big motor!!
mm-m-mm-must b-bb-buy!!


Don't call them idiots Jeff, they've just been programmed by a
comically misoriented consumer society. Personally I feel sorry for
them.

DSK