I sold my Mac thru Sailing Texas. Alison stays involved with sellers and offers help on posting a good ad. And she just asks for a donation if your boat sells.
Really Bad Boat Ads
- Thread starter rgranger
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I find the ads that show four or five pics of the head amusing. And often there is nothing exceptional about the head. I'm sure some psychologist would have more to say about it.......... then there is this one little picture of the boat sailing away from about three miles!!!
Here is a classic pic
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Another classic shot...
I see a shop vac... (water damage?) and a garden hose !?!?!?! and something under the sail that might be a high velocity blower (more water damage?) a sponge, pail and rag..... yeah man.. sign me up. At least the sail looks clean.
I see a shop vac... (water damage?) and a garden hose !?!?!?! and something under the sail that might be a high velocity blower (more water damage?) a sponge, pail and rag..... yeah man.. sign me up. At least the sail looks clean.
Maybe they are trying to show all the included equipment in one shot. They would be better served by taking a shot on the hard, and letting us see the boat. I've looked at so many boats with so much crap that I couldn't even open the compartments to see what I'm considering buying. And I don't try that hard. If I have to ask the broker or owner to move this or that, I'm pretty much out.
And what about the "Sistership" photo. Really? You can't even clean up your boat enough for a decent photo? I'm not considering buying the sistership.
And what about the "Sistership" photo. Really? You can't even clean up your boat enough for a decent photo? I'm not considering buying the sistership.
"Just testing the waters for possible sale" and "Will add photos later" come to mind. or the ads without a price or location included. I'll pass.
NotCook
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- Dec 29, 2008
- 806
When we were shopping, the brokerage photos showed dirty dishes in the sink. The writeup, clearly cut and pasted from other descriptions, mentioned a head immediately aft the forward berth. On two trips to Annapolis to look over the boat, we could not for the life of us find that forward head. It simply wasn't there. Now, this was a custom boat, so I cannot possibly imagine how a broker could expect to cut and paste any description from another listing. When we finally did buy the boat, we did find some canned goods - and some dirty underwear - left by the PO.
NotCook
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- Dec 29, 2008
- 806
LOL - no, I think we used tongs to remove them and drop them in a dumpster!
We also found a bottle of "wine" from Easley's winery in Indianapolis. No vintage noted, but the address label had an address with an old style postal code - 6 alphanumeric digits. 5-digit numeric zip codes started in 1963...
I'd have drank the wine and danced on deck in the moonlight, wearing the dirty old underwear on my head, singing CCR's "Green River" at the top of my lungs.
NotCook
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- Dec 29, 2008
- 806
We still have never opened the bottle - afraid of what we would find. Besides, this way, we still have it to talk about! Oh, and the undies were dirty - no way we were going to even touch them, let alone put them on our heads. Gross!I'd have drank the wine and danced on deck in the moonlight, wearing the dirty old underwear on my head, singing CCR's "Green River" at the top of my lungs.
I know it has been referred to above, but it really surprises me when the interior pictures show cleaning products in the sink and on all the counters, V berths that are jammed with 'stuff''...cockpits full of leaves...pictures of the head with the picture takers reflection in the mirror, mainsails that are hanging limply off the boom. When I sold my first boat I took everything out of the galley and berths, all lines were neatly stowed, everything cleaned...that 25 year old boat looked new and sold quickly.
When surfing boat porn, dirty is not better.....
Cheers
When surfing boat porn, dirty is not better.....
Cheers
Depends on buying or selling. If selling I take pictures of everything neat and tidy with just enough distance to hide the flaws. When buying I look for the lazy slob who has a real diamond in the rough who cannot be bothered to clean the galley or post a real picture. Then again I buy $5k boats not $50k boats.
On the other hand my favorite picture is the obscure corner of nothing which shows a finger tip, a small piece of varnished trim and some white fiberglass something. These really make me want to go check out the rest of the corners.
On the other hand my favorite picture is the obscure corner of nothing which shows a finger tip, a small piece of varnished trim and some white fiberglass something. These really make me want to go check out the rest of the corners.
Ha! CloudDiver, I laughed to read you are tired of hearing 'bespoke'. I've only ever heard that word in church, or maybe a Monty Python movie. I can appreciate how it must feel to live in "Bill and Ted" land, but then, I would swap weather with you anytime. Good to learn your sensitivities extend beyond the life lines of that damn boat! Too funny.
If you work for a British firm, you hear "bespoke" all the time. It is not obsolete or archaic there. They use it like we use "custom made" or "custom built", e.g., "that is bespoke software" for "that software was custom built" or "that is a bespoke part". Ya get used to it.