no one? in 4 days...?
not even one short comment?
interesting - and a "pitty". Any other item - cars.. or better to anything listet by ebay or craigslist ... is way more transparent und fast selling.
cars - days or weeks, ebay stuff: days..
In contrast the average selling time for
boats is around one year! taken into account that some "cheap deals" are done really fast, some
boats with an owners phantasy
price burden wait for several years to be
sold.
I see and hear frustrated sellers everywhere who dont know how to price their boats right and see their beloved "girl" not been enjoyed by a new handsom sailor but sitting and loosing value by anual berthcost and decay.
I see frustrated buyers who want to fulfill their dream NOW but find their dreamboats priced completely off market, "forcing" buyers to wait and search.
Why is it impossible for the yacht market for years allready to be more transparent and more liquid? Boats changing owner within 12 Weeks and not 12 Month?
There is a very bad side effect to this!:
Buyers, experiencing the intransparency of the market and the difficulty in price setting tend to make their
purchase more "liquid". They wanna get rid of the
boat one day fast and easy. And thus they are
buying more and more "standard" boats "generally exepted" - - ignoring the "underdogs".
But those "underdogs" is what makes the
boating scene so colorful and great.
cars look all the same. totally boring. but mostly due to
regulations. the ship market seems to tend into the same direction. but due to buyers anxiety of pricing by "dice".
the only ones who have some insight are the brokers which makes
purchasing a boat even more expensive. The whole process of
buying a boat is unbelievable inefficient compared to the cars market.
I think it would be a better world for sellers and buyers if prices would be more transparent.
but... that seems to be a naive hope.