How Much Do New Repo Boats For Sale Really Cost: Current Prices Part 1

How Much Do New Repo Boats For Sale Really Cost: Current Prices Part 1

Repo boats for sale prices, like most prices, simply will not stay still.

However, this cost study of the price of a new boat will be applied to your own contemplated purchase, substituting the current cost of the boat and gear you want.

The figures will change, but the method and message remain the same.

It's an all-too-common scene: a boater steps into a boat sales office shopping for a boat that he would earnestly like to have, and which is advertised at a "base" or "sailaway" price that he thinks he can handle.

An hour or two later he steps out of the office dazed and probably angry over what that boat, in the water and ready to go boating, is actually going to cost.

More than likely he is embarrassed; the talk about a new boat has been lunch time conversation with colleagues and supper time talk with his family for some time.

No one profits from this situation; not boatbuilders, nor boat sellers, nor boat buyers.

Some of the fault for the situation lies with the builders and their advertising agencies, which include an undefined price in the advertising and brochure material.

The marine industry should adopt some uniform standards for the pricing of their products. For numerous and complex reasons, such standards are, in the words of one builder, something that will "never happen."

The difference between the base price of repo boats for sale and the actual price of boats delivered and ready to sail does, of course, vary, from boat to boat and builder to builder.

One major builder, Hunter Marine, for instance, has had considerable marketing success reducing the gap to a minimum and attracting buyers, especially those with little confidence or experience in outfitting a boat as well as those who choose their boats largely on the basis of price.

Hunter's ploy is to include in the listed price an exten­sive assortment of equipment (including sails) in what that firm calls its CruisePac.

This equipment is a package of items most other builders have as options but which, with Hunter, is standard.

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