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Guy thinks he's sitting on $15-17000 based on NADA. He thinks he's asking a fair price at $8000...I think he's delusional. Asking $8000...especially at the end of the season (we are in the Midwest, Greater Cincinnati area...well he is, I'm near Lexington, KY) AND with a non-running boat with...
Right. Like there is no such thing as a "random alarm". What were you doing or what did you fail to do to make it sound an alarm? What type of alarm was it? Boat looks well taken care of on the outside, but he obviously did something detrimental to the power plant.
The initial post had less information...then after I offered him $500 he edited it to add the additional information. Something smells fishy to the whole thing now and it's not even on my radar anymore. Dude is definitely up to something, because like you said, the math doesn't add up.
I've already seen a TON of them in my area that are all from the Covid timeline...and EVERYTHING else that "floats" is being sold for top dollar. I'll land something nice eventually, or maybe not. I've lived 45 years without a boat, I'll probably be able to continue to live without...
NOW he updated his listing:
Boat currently doesn't run. Boat mechanic states that it needs an ignition control module.
Boat was on the water all summer. The symptom was a random alarm that occurred after about 3 hrs of running. Boat still ran without alarm if under 3k. Mechanic took the boat...
I wish it was just $800, I could swing that no problem right now... but he said he wants $8000, which for the time being is out of the picture. We are still recovering financially from from being down for a month with the 'Rona. I was just hoping to get lucky...even a blind squirrel finds a nut...
I threw out the offer for $500...let's see what happens...fingers crossed...🤞
**Edit**
He responded already with a "no" to the $500 and countered with $8000.
Ok, gang, I trust everyone's advice here, so I just found something that could be what I'm looking for.
The good:
Boat: 2000 Sea Ray Sundeck 210 (in IMMACULATE condition, always stored covered indoors)
Motor: 477 hours on a 5.0L 220 horsepower Alpha I MCM stern drive
The bad:
Boat...
It's only a 16 footer, so it isn't huge. I've been racking my brain thinking of alternative uses for it...me and my daughter jokingly said we were going to turn it into a food truck and drive around selling fish and seafood.
I would/could never do that. I'm planning on getting the motor running to sell it independently of the hull itself. I'll part out what I can before taking it to the dump. I'm crazy OCD when it comes to boating safety, and could never sell someone something that isn't 100% safe to the best of my...
That's what I'm hoping to do. I plan on at the very least getting the motor running because I know that's where most of the value is. The trailer isn't too bad either, just has rotted bunks which allowed the boat to fall onto the mounts. I wanted to turn it into a sandbox or kiddie pool, but the...
Yeah. I had no idea she was planning on doing it. She just knows how much I've wanted a boat my whole life, saw a post for one that was cheap and looked good in the pictures, not knowing anything more about used boats she figured that I could fix any issues that it might have. She sent our 20...
I have a similar story...my wife bought a boat as a surprise gift for me. She/we didn't do any research on buying used boats. She just jumped at the price and bought it without looking into it or even going over it at the time she picked it up. Long story short: floor has rot, foam is soaked...
Ha! I wish I could've! I had zero energy, got incredibly weak just walking to the bathroom. Taking a shower most days took all the energy I had. I was on oxygen for the first 2 weeks I was home. I'm still very heat intolerant...it literally drains every ounce of energy out of me. I still have a...
Thank you! Yeah, it was pretty dicey for a while, and the bad part is, I had really no idea just how sick I was and how serious it had gotten until after I was out of the hospital. Everyone in my house got it, but we all had different results. Luckily, all 3 of my boys were pretty much good. 20...
Man, life sure has a way of kicking you square in the jewels. Two weeks after my last post, I got Covid (Delta V.). I was hospitalized for a week in critical condition with respiratory failure. In fact, my entire house had it in varying degrees. So, now we are all doing much better and on the...
