Where do most people go to sell a used aluminum boat these days?

mirrocraft16 · Aug 10, 2024

I wouldn't doubt it.
The one dealer here told everyone that they needed to buy blue, MAC Maximizer tool boxes, either two or three bank units and they had 6 months to make the change. It was all after they had a bunch of smaller 26" wide tool boxes stolen.
The thought was that bigger boxes can't just be carried away, and they were going to put iron anchors in the floor with huge chains to lock the boxes to the floor.
The demand just made a bunch of the older guys quit and go work across the street at the Chevy dealer instead. I left soon after. My box was nearly new, and Snap On red, and I had no intention of buying a new one. I had bought it used for $5k, (it would have been $11k new).
One guy bought one of the new boxes they wanted everyone to buy, then couple of months later they went bankrupt. The next place he went insisted on only red tool boxes. He paid $9,100 for the blue box, he got $2,100 in trade 8 months later buying a red Snap On box half its size.

Some shops limited the width or value of a box too for insurance and space constraints. Since i worked in the truck shop, they didn't bother us about the size of the box, and most of us had three or four huge boxes.
Now that I'm retired, I have a massive 108" wide 30" deep four bank box with a top cabinet that I don't need but it cost just over $23k new. Its been stored in the garage since it was a year old, still like new.
I'd let it go for $8k, but any less and I think I'll just let it sit or use it as a coffin when I die.

I'd rather have an expensive tool box than a huge loss anyway.
I had a few offers of a few trades for some cars and trucks but no cash.
The average tech working in a dealer these days is broke from all the tools they have to buy as it is, I think even back then I was the only one who bought and paid cash off the tool trucks, it saved me a ton of cash because if they know your not going to drag it out for 20 years, they're willing to lower the price a bit., sometimes a lot.
At my age, I have zero interest in working on trucks or cars, those days were over way back before my hair turned gray.

Tin Man · Aug 10, 2024

I use both CL and FB Marketplace. Both work well in my area. However, it appears that FB is starting to become the go-to place to sell just about everything. I usually place my ads on both sites.

Crazyboat · Aug 11, 2024

Sounds like you made your sales pitch here. Good luck on the sale.

lckstckn2smknbrls · Aug 18, 2024

mirrocraft16 said:
I wouldn't doubt it.
The one dealer here told everyone that they needed to buy blue, MAC Maximizer tool boxes, either two or three bank units and they had 6 months to make the change. It was all after they had a bunch of smaller 26" wide tool boxes stolen.
The thought was that bigger boxes can't just be carried away, and they were going to put iron anchors in the floor with huge chains to lock the boxes to the floor.
The demand just made a bunch of the older guys quit and go work across the street at the Chevy dealer instead. I left soon after. My box was nearly new, and Snap On red, and I had no intention of buying a new one. I had bought it used for $5k, (it would have been $11k new).
One guy bought one of the new boxes they wanted everyone to buy, then couple of months later they went bankrupt. The next place he went insisted on only red tool boxes. He paid $9,100 for the blue box, he got $2,100 in trade 8 months later buying a red Snap On box half its size.

Some shops limited the width or value of a box too for insurance and space constraints. Since i worked in the truck shop, they didn't bother us about the size of the box, and most of us had three or four huge boxes.
Now that I'm retired, I have a massive 108" wide 30" deep four bank box with a top cabinet that I don't need but it cost just over $23k new. Its been stored in the garage since it was a year old, still like new.
I'd let it go for $8k, but any less and I think I'll just let it sit or use it as a coffin when I die.

I'd rather have an expensive tool box than a huge loss anyway.
I had a few offers of a few trades for some cars and trucks but no cash.
The average tech working in a dealer these days is broke from all the tools they have to buy as it is, I think even back then I was the only one who bought and paid cash off the tool trucks, it saved me a ton of cash because if they know your not going to drag it out for 20 years, they're willing to lower the price a bit., sometimes a lot.
At my age, I have zero interest in working on trucks or cars, those days were over way back before my hair turned gray.

If color was the only issue, I'd do a vinyl wrap on it.

Fishingman48 · Aug 18, 2024

Well, I have to admit, I did a little reading & Only thing I
have to say never used FB as seems from reading same amount of issues with CL//
After saying that, when I sold my 14' Sylvan fisherman w/ trailer & 25 HP W/ SIDE CONSOLE.I got $4,000.00 was selling it for 4,500.00it came with a couple features but price wise I believe it was a complete even situation price wise & I used CL to sell it, wasn't on listing 2 weeks and had a buyer

Fishingman48 · Aug 18, 2024

CincyGus said:
Sold mine on FB Marketplace. Listed in the late fall, had a few inquiries and then about the end of March, They swarmed me. Had people calling left and right. Sold it to the second guy that actually came out to look at it and had 3 phone calls to make after he gave me a down payment to hold it till the following week and he could get his load paperwork through the bank and a cashiers check.

I did that, a security put down and hold but also stated if not picked up by date deadline they lose the deposit / as only fair as could of been sold to someone else who standing there with full amount in hand. not being nasty but business is business. hell, I did that with my own place I put 20,000 grand down and if I messed up on deal, I would have lost all I put in +20,g's

Fishingman48 · Aug 18, 2024

thill said:
CL and FB. In person ONLY.

Don't give them your full legal name or address. Give them an address to a business or park NEAR your home, and meet them there, or have them follow you back to your house.

I buy/sell a lot. It's probably the easiest way to sell for the best price. It's also a great way to buy.

Been there & done that!!!

lckstckn2smknbrls · Aug 18, 2024

Fishingman48 said:
Been there & done that!!!

Meet at the police station. Many of them have areas for this and have security cameras pointed at that area.

boatyard · Aug 19, 2024

Its not a CL or FB issue, its a mental health issue. All methods of selling a boat or motor here seem to draw out some pretty strange characters lately.

For me, I'm not taking anything I've got for sale anywhere, if they want it, they need to come to my house, and pay cash. If they can't handle that I'm not interested in dealing with them.

Lately it seems that about 3/4 of the people who actually show up to buy something are a bit off to say the least. I sold a one bottom farm plow for a three point hitch over the weekend, it had been listed on CL and FB for 7 years at $100 with no takers. I got an email on Friday asking if its still available and if I had a way to load it. I told them no problem, and they replied they'd be here Sat. afternoon.
A woman shows up driving a Toyota MR2 with one of those trailer hitch racks on the back.
She looks the thing over, tells me she's been trying to find that very plow for years and was surprised when it 'popped up' so close. She was about 40 miles away over in DE.

She then tells me she may need my help to put the plow on the back rack. By then it was pouring rain too.
I wheels the rack over to her car, and slid it onto tiny little aluminum carrier on the back. She proceeds to take about five back rubber bungee cords and secures it to the rack, thanks me and leaves. She called me 20 minutes later, about 15 miles away saying that she needs help, the 'brand new' rear rack broke off and i dragging the ground. It was pouring rain but I felt sorry for her. When I got there I could see it was more than a broken rack,, the whole hitch had come down pulling out of the sheet metal it was bolted to.
A bit of pulling and it came completely off her car. Now she's sitting on the side of the road with a broken hitch and rack, and a farm plow in a t op car in the pouring rain. All I could do for her is load up the rack and the plow and bring it back here, and let her drive home. Now its sitting here strapped to a rack and a broke trailer hitch waiting for her to find a way to get it home. All that for $100 sale. Something tells me its going to be a fixture where it sits for a long time. I told here if she owns a tractor and a farm she should have a pickup but her reply was that pickup trucks are ugly and she likes her car.
She called me this morning wanting to know if I knew anyone who would loan her a truck to use???

Fishingman48 · Aug 19, 2024

lckstckn2smknbrls said:
Meet at the police station. Many of them have areas for this and have security cameras pointed at that area.

DONT KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE BUT TRY THAT AROUND BY ME & THEY'ED BE ASKING? WHAT YOU THINK THIS IS LOCAL FLEA MRKT?
ALOT OF COPS TODAY GET COCKY WHEN THAT BADGE IS ON THEM, THEY THINK THEIR GOD! & ABOVE THE LAW I KNOW MY SON IS ONE OF EM! AND NOT ASHAMED TO SAY SO.I ALSO HAD A COUSIN WHO WAS DESK SERGENT FOR 30+ YRS. HE GAVE SOME GOOD ADVICE THEIRS A BUNCH OF A-HOLES AND THEN THEIR'S POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARE THE FEW! the fake cops THEY DONT DO ANYTHING UNLESS THEY REALLY HAVE TO. THEY RATHER SIT ON ASS AND WAIT THE 20 & RETIRE . YOU BRING THAT BOAT THERE AND YOU GET THIRD DEGREE, WHO'S IS IT? WHERE DID IT COME FROM? DO YOU HAVE DOCUMENTATION? ARE YOU THE OWNER?wE REALLY DONT HAVE TIME FOR THIS , WHO TOLD YOU WE DO THIS HERE WE DONT DO THIS HERE etc. etc. SORRY SON BEEN THERE & DONE THAT AND WHAT ******** I WENT THROUGH, LUCKY DIDNT GET STRIPPED SEARCH! It's like why are you bothering me!

Fishingman48 · Aug 19, 2024

boatyard said:
Its not a CL or FB issue, its a mental health issue. All methods of selling a boat or motor here seem to draw out some pretty strange characters lately.

For me, I'm not taking anything I've got for sale anywhere, if they want it, they need to come to my house, and pay cash. If they can't handle that I'm not interested in dealing with them.

Lately it seems that about 3/4 of the people who actually show up to buy something are a bit off to say the least. I sold a one bottom farm plow for a three point hitch over the weekend, it had been listed on CL and FB for 7 years at $100 with no takers. I got an email on Friday asking if its still available and if I had a way to load it. I told them no problem, and they replied they'd be here Sat. afternoon.
A woman shows up driving a Toyota MR2 with one of those trailer hitch racks on the back.
She looks the thing over, tells me she's been trying to find that very plow for years and was surprised when it 'popped up' so close. She was about 40 miles away over in DE.

She then tells me she may need my help to put the pow on the back rack. By then it was pouring rain too.
I wheels the rack over to her car, and slid it onto tiny little aluminum carrier on the back. She proceeds to take about five back rubber bungee cords and secures it to the rack, thanks me and leaves. She called me 20 minutes later, about 15 miles away saying that she needs help, the 'brand new' rear rack broke off and i dragging the ground. It was pouring rain but I felt sorry for her. When I got there I could see it was more than a broken rack,, the whole hitch had come down pulling out of the sheet metal it was bolted to.
A bit of pulling and it came completely off her car. Now she's sitting on the side of the road with a broken hitch and rack, and a farm plow in a t op car in the pouring rain. All I could do for her is load up the rack and the plow and bring it back here, and let her drive home. Now its sitting here strapped to a rack and a broke trailer hitch waiting for her to find a way to get it home. All that for $100 sale. Something tells me its going to be a fixture where it sits for a long time. I told here if she owns a tractor and a farm she should have a pickup but her reply was that pickup trucks are ugly and she likes her car.
She called me this morning wanting to know if I knew anyone who would loan her a truck to use???

LMAO!

headduck · Aug 19, 2024

boatyard said:
Its not a CL or FB issue, its a mental health issue. All methods of selling a boat or motor here seem to draw out some pretty strange characters lately.

For me, I'm not taking anything I've got for sale anywhere, if they want it, they need to come to my house, and pay cash. If they can't handle that I'm not interested in dealing with them.

Lately it seems that about 3/4 of the people who actually show up to buy something are a bit off to say the least. I sold a one bottom farm plow for a three point hitch over the weekend, it had been listed on CL and FB for 7 years at $100 with no takers. I got an email on Friday asking if its still available and if I had a way to load it. I told them no problem, and they replied they'd be here Sat. afternoon.
A woman shows up driving a Toyota MR2 with one of those trailer hitch racks on the back.
She looks the thing over, tells me she's been trying to find that very plow for years and was surprised when it 'popped up' so close. She was about 40 miles away over in DE.

She then tells me she may need my help to put the pow on the back rack. By then it was pouring rain too.
I wheels the rack over to her car, and slid it onto tiny little aluminum carrier on the back. She proceeds to take about five back rubber bungee cords and secures it to the rack, thanks me and leaves. She called me 20 minutes later, about 15 miles away saying that she needs help, the 'brand new' rear rack broke off and i dragging the ground. It was pouring rain but I felt sorry for her. When I got there I could see it was more than a broken rack,, the whole hitch had come down pulling out of the sheet metal it was bolted to.
A bit of pulling and it came completely off her car. Now she's sitting on the side of the road with a broken hitch and rack, and a farm plow in a t op car in the pouring rain. All I could do for her is load up the rack and the plow and bring it back here, and let her drive home. Now its sitting here strapped to a rack and a broke trailer hitch waiting for her to find a way to get it home. All that for $100 sale. Something tells me its going to be a fixture where it sits for a long time. I told here if she owns a tractor and a farm she should have a pickup but her reply was that pickup trucks are ugly and she likes her car.
She called me this morning wanting to know if I knew anyone who would loan her a truck to use???

You are patient in many ways ... 7 yrs... Wow.

LDUBS · Aug 19, 2024

lckstckn2smknbrls said:
Meet at the police station. Many of them have areas for this and have security cameras pointed at that area.

I never thought of this. Pretty good idea. My town's PD would have no issue with me meeting someone in the parking lot.

lckstckn2smknbrls · Aug 19, 2024

LDUBS said:
I never thought of this. Pretty good idea. My town's PD would have no issue with me meeting someone in the parking lot.

Talk to your town board and see if they would make an area for meeting people and install a camera.

boatyard · Aug 20, 2024

The PD here has no public parking lot, people have to park on the street or one of the pay to park lots around the block there. Employees and city vehicles are kept in a gated, guarded lot in the middle of the block off limits to the public. They used to let folks use the vestibule at City Hall but only during business hours, which does no one any good after work or on weekends.

Either way, if I were the seller, there's no way I'm towing a boat or dragging a large item somewhere to meet with someone. If they want it, they have to come to me. On my turf, where I have control of the situation. If their too squirrely to deal with that, I don't care to deal with them.

I certainly would feel far safer at my own home, dealing with some of the wackos that reply to ads these days.

The woman with the plow came by 6am this morning with another woman, in a Subaru station wagon. The other woman was bigger than her by double, (and me for that matter), she picked up the plow and shoved it into the back of the car, then put the carrier rack and piece of trailer hitch on the roof rack of the Subaru. by the looks of the car it had done that sort of thing before. The lack of a back glass sort of told the store on its condition. Her helper grabbed holed of that plow and picked it up like it was a box of donuts and just slid it right into the car. Not that it mattered but I couldn't tell if it was her mother, her wife or a linebacker in drag.

thill · Aug 20, 2024

boatyard said:
Its not a CL or FB issue, its a mental health issue. All methods of selling a boat or motor here seem to draw out some pretty strange characters lately.

For me, I'm not taking anything I've got for sale anywhere, if they want it, they need to come to my house, and pay cash. If they can't handle that I'm not interested in dealing with them.

Lately it seems that about 3/4 of the people who actually show up to buy something are a bit off to say the least. I sold a one bottom farm plow for a three point hitch over the weekend, it had been listed on CL and FB for 7 years at $100 with no takers. I got an email on Friday asking if its still available and if I had a way to load it. I told them no problem, and they replied they'd be here Sat. afternoon.
A woman shows up driving a Toyota MR2 with one of those trailer hitch racks on the back.
She looks the thing over, tells me she's been trying to find that very plow for years and was surprised when it 'popped up' so close. She was about 40 miles away over in DE.

She then tells me she may need my help to put the plow on the back rack. By then it was pouring rain too.
I wheels the rack over to her car, and slid it onto tiny little aluminum carrier on the back. She proceeds to take about five back rubber bungee cords and secures it to the rack, thanks me and leaves. She called me 20 minutes later, about 15 miles away saying that she needs help, the 'brand new' rear rack broke off and i dragging the ground. It was pouring rain but I felt sorry for her. When I got there I could see it was more than a broken rack,, the whole hitch had come down pulling out of the sheet metal it was bolted to.
A bit of pulling and it came completely off her car. Now she's sitting on the side of the road with a broken hitch and rack, and a farm plow in a t op car in the pouring rain. All I could do for her is load up the rack and the plow and bring it back here, and let her drive home. Now its sitting here strapped to a rack and a broke trailer hitch waiting for her to find a way to get it home. All that for $100 sale. Something tells me its going to be a fixture where it sits for a long time. I told here if she owns a tractor and a farm she should have a pickup but her reply was that pickup trucks are ugly and she likes her car.
She called me this morning wanting to know if I knew anyone who would loan her a truck to use???

Wow, what a story!

Tell her to rent a $19.99 pickup truck from U-Haul, Home Depot or Lowes

EDIT: Glad she got it off your hands. That sounds like a farm woman who has been working all her life. Maybe not the prettiest things, but "they will bear you strong sons" is a saying around here, and for a reason, as you witnessed.

1pc@atime · Aug 20, 2024

I for one will pass, rough and tough just isn't a trait I care to find in a woman.

Nor would i want a woman that anyone may mistake for a 'linebacker in drag'.

But a sale is a sale these days. I've got hundreds of items listed on FB and CL all the time, and lately I'm lucky to even get a message every few months or so regardless of what I have for sale. They don't buy mowers, boats, motors, tractors, collectibles, or much else lately around here. Either FB and CL somehow block the ads from being viewed or there's no one looking.
CL won't allow you to use a hit counter, which i found suspicious but I've put some super deal up there and gotten no replies.

I've also watched some pretty serious deals go unsold lately. A buddy just picked up a 40,000 mile diesel F350, (2002) 4x4 for $3,800 cash off CL, the thing is spotless, it runs perfect and came from the original owner. Its black with black leather seats.
The local dealer has one just like it with 290k on it for $290k, and have sold others just like it over the past few years.

His has 40k, its still new for heavens sake. Worse yet I had to talk him into it. He was looking for a crew cab and the one he found is only a Supercab, he almost bought a six year newer truck with a 6.4L engine with 300k on it for $24k, and had flipped right past the one with the Supercab and only 40k on it. If he didn't buy it I would have had to just to flip it elsewhere.

The thing has zero rust, no body work or repairs, no dents, and everything works. The worst thing I see is someone changed the grill out for a cheap billet grill, but it came with the factory grill too. In a different market or listed elsewhere that truck will bring every bit of $30k, I'd have listed it on bring a trailer dot com or similar and see what it brings. (I got more than $3,800 for a 200k 1992 F150 with a 300 I6 regular cab long bed about a year ago).
People here are either cheap or broke, or completely computer illiterate I get more response from a post-it note at the super market than I do online here.

boatyard · Aug 20, 2024

thill said:
Wow, what a story!

Tell her to rent a $19.99 pickup truck from U-Haul, Home Depot or Lowes

EDIT: Glad she got it off your hands. That sounds like a farm woman who has been working all her life. Maybe not the prettiest things, but "they will bear you strong sons" is a saying around here, and for a reason, as you witnessed.

I'm not sure I'd want either of them behind the wheel of a 1 ton truck.

I'm just glad its out of here. I was afraid I was going to have to store it for the winter while she found a truck.
The friend was actually a bit scary looking, and the station wagon looked like something you see running around in a junk yard picking parts. They used to stop cars like that and not let them cross the bridge but I guess they don't look all that close these days. Glass and lights optional I suppose.
I kind of got the impression they may have been a couple, at least the big one seems to think so. I was definitely getting some jealous husband vibe from her the way she just shoved the thing into the car and didn't hardly bother to tie down the rack she tossed in the roof.
The woman that bought the thing was kind of cute but definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.

LDUBS · Aug 20, 2024

1pc@atime said:
I for one will pass, rough and tough just isn't a trait I care to find in a woman.

Nor would i want a woman that anyone may mistake for a 'linebacker in drag'.

But a sale is a sale these days. I've got hundreds of items listed on FB and CL all the time, and lately I'm lucky to even get a message every few months or so regardless of what I have for sale. They don't buy mowers, boats, motors, tractors, collectibles, or much else lately around here. Either FB and CL somehow block the ads from being viewed or there's no one looking.
CL won't allow you to use a hit counter, which i found suspicious but I've put some super deal up there and gotten no replies.

I've also watched some pretty serious deals go unsold lately. A buddy just picked up a 40,000 mile diesel F350, (2002) 4x4 for $3,800 cash off CL, the thing is spotless, it runs perfect and came from the original owner. Its black with black leather seats.
The local dealer has one just like it with 290k on it for $290k, and have sold others just like it over the past few years.

His has 40k, its still new for heavens sake. Worse yet I had to talk him into it. He was looking for a crew cab and the one he found is only a Supercab, he almost bought a six year newer truck with a 6.4L engine with 300k on it for $24k, and had flipped right past the one with the Supercab and only 40k on it. If he didn't buy it I would have had to just to flip it elsewhere.

The thing has zero rust, no body work or repairs, no dents, and everything works. The worst thing I see is someone changed the grill out for a cheap billet grill, but it came with the factory grill too. In a different market or listed elsewhere that truck will bring every bit of $30k, I'd have listed it on bring a trailer dot com or similar and see what it brings. (I got more than $3,800 for a 200k 1992 F150 with a 300 I6 regular cab long bed about a year ago).
People here are either cheap or broke, or completely computer illiterate I get more response from a post-it note at the super market than I do online here.

Yikes, I hope the $290K is a typo!!!!

Dorper · Aug 20, 2024

boatyard said:
Its not a CL or FB issue, its a mental health issue. All methods of selling a boat or motor here seem to draw out some pretty strange characters lately.

For me, I'm not taking anything I've got for sale anywhere, if they want it, they need to come to my house, and pay cash. If they can't handle that I'm not interested in dealing with them.

Lately it seems that about 3/4 of the people who actually show up to buy something are a bit off to say the least. I sold a one bottom farm plow for a three point hitch over the weekend, it had been listed on CL and FB for 7 years at $100 with no takers. I got an email on Friday asking if its still available and if I had a way to load it. I told them no problem, and they replied they'd be here Sat. afternoon.
A woman shows up driving a Toyota MR2 with one of those trailer hitch racks on the back.
She looks the thing over, tells me she's been trying to find that very plow for years and was surprised when it 'popped up' so close. She was about 40 miles away over in DE.

She then tells me she may need my help to put the plow on the back rack. By then it was pouring rain too.
I wheels the rack over to her car, and slid it onto tiny little aluminum carrier on the back. She proceeds to take about five back rubber bungee cords and secures it to the rack, thanks me and leaves. She called me 20 minutes later, about 15 miles away saying that she needs help, the 'brand new' rear rack broke off and i dragging the ground. It was pouring rain but I felt sorry for her. When I got there I could see it was more than a broken rack,, the whole hitch had come down pulling out of the sheet metal it was bolted to.
A bit of pulling and it came completely off her car. Now she's sitting on the side of the road with a broken hitch and rack, and a farm plow in a t op car in the pouring rain. All I could do for her is load up the rack and the plow and bring it back here, and let her drive home. Now its sitting here strapped to a rack and a broke trailer hitch waiting for her to find a way to get it home. All that for $100 sale. Something tells me its going to be a fixture where it sits for a long time. I told here if she owns a tractor and a farm she should have a pickup but her reply was that pickup trucks are ugly and she likes her car.
She called me this morning wanting to know if I knew anyone who would loan her a truck to use???

Where do most people go to sell a used aluminum boat these days?

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