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Don Lucas · 07-01-2009, 14:04

Thanks for the input. While I have made no decision overall of whether to use a buyers broker, I did the other day inquire to a listed boat (told him I was kind of "kicking the tires" at the moment till I sell my house) . The list price was $109,900 and the broker responded to my questions and told me some more about the boat (most of it negative) and said in his option the boat should sell for $70-80k (made me wonder why did he had it listed so much higher). So I responded with a straight question of how much in his option it would cost to get the boat in shape, to which he said $35k. So at list price (which he already told me could be reduced at least $30k) that comes out to $145k. Now here it comes; he then said (email) that in his option he had other boats that would be better for the money. Thing was the other boats he listed were $200k+ (the first 1 he pushed was $300k). So he has a big creditabilty problem with me now. On one hand he was upfront to my orginal inquiry, even though that lost some with the difference between the his lsiting price and the price he told me I could get the boat for (I never even asked for a price reduction). Then he lost creditabilty by saying for the money I should spend a lot more. I pointed this out to him and am waiting a response and hope it is just a "communication" problem.

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Don Lucas Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Salem MA Boat: Cal 39 - D & D Posts: 486	Thanks for the input. While I have made no decision overall of whether to use a buyers broker, I did the other day inquire to a listed boat (told him I was kind of "kicking the tires" at the moment till I sell my house) . The list price was $109,900 and the broker responded to my questions and told me some more about the boat (most of it negative) and said in his option the boat should sell for $70-80k (made me wonder why did he had it listed so much higher). So I responded with a straight question of how much in his option it would cost to get the boat in shape, to which he said $35k. So at list price (which he already told me could be reduced at least $30k) that comes out to $145k. Now here it comes; he then said (email) that in his option he had other boats that would be better for the money. Thing was the other boats he listed were $200k+ (the first 1 he pushed was $300k). So he has a big creditabilty problem with me now. On one hand he was upfront to my orginal inquiry, even though that lost some with the difference between the his lsiting price and the price he told me I could get the boat for (I never even asked for a price reduction). Then he lost creditabilty by saying for the money I should spend a lot more. I pointed this out to him and am waiting a response and hope it is just a "communication" problem.