selling boats

I've bought and sold a couple of boats recently.  Cheap Toppers/Picos/Lasers etc seem to be well in demand and sell quickly if priced well.   I picked up a very nice (and cheap) Pico for my daughter on ebay the other week, but I've also noticed some of the newer plastic fantastics bid to surprisingly low values on there too.  I also sold an Ent recently, which I thought was a reasonable boat at a sensible price, but it took months to shift and in the end I had to drop the price by perhaps a quarter. So the lesson I take from all this is that money is tight, the boats that are selling are those that are well priced, and anything that is over priced will take a long time to move.

Decided to sell our well used Topper at the weekend and it went last night.  As has been said before, it's very dependant on the boat and price range.  Not all doom and gloom though!

Edited by Ian29937 - 09 Sep 11 at 10:08am

They were queuing three deep to buy my RS300 a few months back despite the bullish price. Never known anything like it.

Will be putting a double bottomed N12 on the market soon can't imagine the the phone will be quite so hot but we will see.

Some boats are selling.
Some are probably worth significantly less than a year ago, due to money being tight for a lot of used boat buyers.

I have to say that the RS100 will probably have reduced the value of Vareos. The writing may not be on the wall yet, but we know what it will say. How many new ones have been sold this year?

rogue mate it is a real shame that your knee problem came back but I hope you still have at least some fondness for the 100?  it does have pros and cons like all boats, but it is great fun and isn't all bad