On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:30:32 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:


Point being, sometimes the first offer is the best offer. Your kids
have sold the boat, and they're off to a new phase in life. Maybe when
the kids are older they will come back to boating again, but in the
meantime it sounds like they have a lot of exciting changes to keep
them busy.

They used the money from the sale to buy and equip a pop-up,
and have already been "camping" a couple times. The thing looks
as big as a boat even folded up. But no dock or storage fees parking
it next to the garage.
There's many ways to approach the buy/sell thing, from both ends.
Tom's experience with the BS "surveyor" going over the Halman, and the
ridiculous offer, then later getting asking price.
Justwait's not jumping on the Whaler.
The kids listing the Bayliner at a seemingly attractive price and not
even getting a call for two weeks.
The example you gave of inflexibility, etc. That was a real bad move.
It's a zoo out there. Just have to decide on which side of the cages
you want to stay. But sometimes the other side tries to pull you in.
Once I needed to dump an extra car, wanting and EASILY worth $500.
Put a for sale sign it and got 1/2 an hour of my time wasted by a
"buyer" who offered $200. Told him to shove off and gave the car to a
hard-up neighbor, who drove if for about 3 years.
Another time I drove way too far to look at a used cap for my PU.
The cap was pure junk, homemade, plywood, rotten and overgrown
with weeds in a backyard. I had a new aluminum gemtop installed
for what this ahole was asking for his junk.
Cie le vie.

--Vic