I see the ciera 2855 when I search on the site, but I dont see a ciera
3055 which is the model I want? Perhaps I have gone insane and cant use
the uber complicated search button?

Thanks for the info on yacht world, ya I been looking there.. but the
prices seemd a bit high.


wrote:
Any good websites / dealers around here would be appreciated. The
guys
at olympic boat center rub me the wrong way.


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Experience dictates that I should refrain from recommending a
specific
dealer. :-)

You must have been to the Yachtworld site by now, correct? Use the
"advanced search" function, type in the parameters you're using,
specify "Washington" under the state, and you'll get a good list of
boats available in the area. I checked the site before commenting
that
one of them is listed at just under $50k.

You will see that not all dealers are using Yachtworld. It used to be
a
given that they would nearly all be there, but a 30-40% price
increase
earlier this year has resulted in some of them bailing out.

I gave you a bum steer. The guy in Everett listed his boat by its LOA,
rather than the nominal length. Unusual practice, and I should have
caught it myself. Sorry.

The prices on Yachtworld are the asking prices of all the private
sellers represented by the brokers who participate in the service.
There is no single source for the pricing, so with a wide enough view
it will accurately reflect the "asking" (as in fondest dreams) pricing
of the market in general.

Most price guides don't reflect the boat market very well- explaining
why you can find a 30-40% variation sometimes between one guidebook and
the next. An accurate book, (if one existed), *would* report lower
prices than those seen in a general industry site (such as Yachtworld)
because the same people pay the asking price for a used boat that will
pay the window sticker price down at Joe's Used Car lot......(almost
nobody).

This is the time of year when boat prices start to soften up on
brokerage boats in the NW.

The fall is when they soften up. Boat pricing is generally guided by
availability, here in Nova Scotia that craft would probably be purchased
sight unseen, for that price.

wrote:

I gave you a bum steer. The guy in Everett listed his boat by its LOA,
rather than the nominal length. Unusual practice, and I should have
caught it myself. Sorry.

The prices on Yachtworld are the asking prices of all the private
sellers represented by the brokers who participate in the service.
There is no single source for the pricing, so with a wide enough view
it will accurately reflect the "asking" (as in fondest dreams) pricing
of the market in general.

Most price guides don't reflect the boat market very well- explaining
why you can find a 30-40% variation sometimes between one guidebook and
the next. An accurate book, (if one existed), *would* report lower
prices than those seen in a general industry site (such as Yachtworld)
because the same people pay the asking price for a used boat that will
pay the window sticker price down at Joe's Used Car lot......(almost
nobody).

If the price seems to good to be true, it probably is.


"Dry" wrote in message
...
This is the time of year when boat prices start to soften up on
brokerage boats in the NW.

The fall is when they soften up. Boat pricing is generally guided by
availability, here in Nova Scotia that craft would probably be purchased
sight unseen, for that price.

wrote:

I gave you a bum steer. The guy in Everett listed his boat by its LOA,
rather than the nominal length. Unusual practice, and I should have
caught it myself. Sorry.

The prices on Yachtworld are the asking prices of all the private
sellers represented by the brokers who participate in the service.
There is no single source for the pricing, so with a wide enough view
it will accurately reflect the "asking" (as in fondest dreams) pricing
of the market in general.

Most price guides don't reflect the boat market very well- explaining
why you can find a 30-40% variation sometimes between one guidebook and
the next. An accurate book, (if one existed), *would* report lower
prices than those seen in a general industry site (such as Yachtworld)
because the same people pay the asking price for a used boat that will
pay the window sticker price down at Joe's Used Car lot......(almost
nobody).

This is the time of year when boat prices start to soften up on
brokerage boats in the NW.


The fall is when they soften up. Boat pricing is generally guided by
availability, here in Nova Scotia that craft would probably be
purchased
sight unseen, for that price.


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Your market is different in Nova Scotia, rather obviously.

Prices for larger boats get soft in May out here. The rationale is that
it takes a few weeks to survey, sea trial, finance and close a deal,
and that a lot of people want that new or newer boat for Memorial Day
Weekend.

During the summer months, most of the best prospects for medium size or
larger powerboats aren't shopping for boats- they're out using the
boats they already own.

Prices actually revive a bit for a few weeks after Labor Day, as the
"back from cruising, time to upgrade this boat" market kicks in- but by
mid October our prices tank until the January boat shows.