buy ---sell,,,,why not just give it a rest ? ----- Original Message ----- From: bill safford To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:18 PM Subject: RE: M_Boats: M23 Still For Sale in AZ for $5800 or offer
BUC Book, NADA, Kelly, and other "blue book" enterprizes all have a professional site and a consumer site and the values are definently skewed to their market. Let's face it, you're not going to pay a dealer or broker's price to a private seller. The private seller has no overhead or commission worries. A classified ad is inexpensive or free to a private seller. And then what kind of warranty will I expect from a private seller? As is, where is? With this in mind, I don't expect to get top-dollar for my boat, or truck when its time to sell. I will get whatever the fair market value is at the time or a little less--I'm willing to negotiate. How about that trade-in value. I'd rather the salesman just kick me the groin and go on about his day. That's why in a free-market economy we can have private orderly sales. Value paid for value received. When I buy, I negotiate. When I sell, I negotiate. Cheers!> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:09:00 -0400> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]> Subject: Re: M_Boats: M23 Still For Sale in AZ for $5800 or offer> > I agree that the book numbers on Montys are skewed from private > sales...being that small trailer sailboats usually aren't brokered or financed. However, > I wrote NADA a couple yrs ago asking for how they get the numbers. Values on > NADA are actual selling prices reported by any new or used boat dealer, > marina, broker, bank, etc who subscribes to the NADA pub. The only way any boat > value in NADA may be 15 yrs old is if none had been sold or reported by a > subscriber. NADA also said their free web site values are lower than their > subscription pub...don't ask me why because I didn't follow that one up. > > Also, FreeWilly is entitled to his opinion and I personally didn't get > offended at his critique...it's plain boat talk like any other stuff. I don't get > why anyone gets uptight or hostile about opinions on Monty quality or values. > Bottom line to me is Montys are a cult boat with limited numbers. They spend > most of them time on a trailer and it results in low stress, long life and > boats that show very well. It drives prices up no matter what the quality. > Before anyone blasts me for whatever, I'm a long time Monty owner...since > 1975-76 and still own it. I bought 100% for the design and quality was secondary. > Construction issues or resale means nothing to me...never has, never will. If > it breaks (and it has) I fix it. Monty ownership for me is all about getting > a boat design I like.> > Bill P. (NOT Freewilly)> > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com> _______________________________________________> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _________________________________________________________________ Live Search: New search found http://get.live.com/search/overview _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
