jmeng

Would love to see what 5 blades would do for the boat. Keep us updated if you ever get a chance to run them.

berns29scarab

You think your gonna lose a lil selling her privately ? Wait til you see the numbers on trade value. Dont go by the inflated numbers...leave your trade out of the equation, get the best possible price on whatever your looking at THEN tell them bout your trade...but hang on to your shorts.
BEEN THERE DONE THAT. HAVE PRIVATELY SOLD EVERYBOAT I'VE OWNED.

berns29scarab

if you buy your boats right pricewise, selling them isnt as painful

Expensive Date

Part of it is that a new one has a cheaper payment with Formulas low interest rate.It is a nice boat though.I think K planes would help bring it on plane quicker

jmeng

Sometimes I think I'm the only one that understands that.

Slick02

Problem is that alot(most) people can't afford to be two boat owners while their trying to pedal their old one's and then you have the sales tax on on say 90 grand versus sales tax on the trade difference, plus the general pita of putting up with all the idiots in the world until you find a serious buyer. To some people when you add all of that together, trading doesn't seem so bad.
Just a personal opinion/observation.

bob_t

I'll second what Slick02 just said. My first "serious" buyer showed up on a Sunday, 2nd week of Feb. Looked over the boat and asked if we could put it in the water. I told him I would, only if he was serious about buying it, which he said he was. 35 degrees outside, we put it in the lake. Eyes watering, nose running, we went right at 72.8 mph on GPS down the lake. Boat ran the fastest I had ever seen and really didn't try that hard to get "optimum" speed as my face and hands were getting numb. We get back and he says he's buying it and will pick it up on Wednesday of that week. I drained the engines and had the engines re-winterized. Calls me monday and says he got a bank check and asks me to get the titles (boat and trailer) all ready for him to just come get the boat, hand me the check and leave. Also wanted Coast Guard sales receipt, since he wanted to document the boat. Tuesday he says he will be here wednesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon, no one shows up. I call him and he says he changed his mind, but would send a check to cover having the boat re-winterized. Not sure where he sent the check, because I never got it. Check must still be in the mail! Other person who wanted the boat flew up from FL later the next week, left deposit, and then came to get it last friday. My "selling" experience with this boat rather soured me on Formulas' (nothing against the boat, it was a very nice boat). I didn't overpay for the boat when I bought it (to berns29scarab's point) but I sure didn't get back out of it what I thought I would, given all of the talk about how well they hold their resale value. I didn't completely lose my a$$, but one cheek is gone! For those who are trying to get $$$ + out of theirs, I wish them well!

selpel

Hey jmeng, got your e-mail and I spoke with the owner he said he seen 70+ on the speedo. Will send photos tomorrow after sales meeting!

jmeng

Thanks.

jmeng

Bob,

You would have had a lot less headaches if we would have made it up there before it sold.