Your boat NADA is 27-30k sitting on a trailer.

Unfortunately this time of year most people are not thinking about buying a boat just to have it sit for 6 months, they are thinking about the Holidays and Winter vacations to somewhere warm.

I understand you put a lot of money into it and you'd like to get it back, but this is another unfortunate issue because the NADA already assumes everything is in proper operational order. Kind of like roof for your house, it is supposed to be there and in good condition regardless if just spend $20K on it, the price of your home will not jump $20K. Now if the roof is falling apart then value of the home will go down. Hopefully this make sense?

The best thing you can to do simply follow the NADA guild line, because everyone who is shopping will MOST DEFINITELY be using it.

Good luck and I hope it goes well.

As mentioned, streamline the ad a bit. Looks like a nice package overall. State the hull hours, and new engine hours. State the drive, even if you think everyone assumes it's a B1. Is the new engine still a 454 Mag? State that.

Get some decent photos on there that accentuate what's good about the boat (some broadside shots, good interior shots, cuddy, etc.) Clean the boat. I'd list it at $14,500 or so and go from there. Probably be hard to get 20; the market sucks for sellers (but is great for buyers).

Just for the heck of it, I just went through the Baja classifieds section also. I'd say 80% of the boats on there are overpriced, and several have been on there for 6 months plus. Why don't you list on there also? You'd probably have the most attractively priced newer gen 27' on there, which should get it noticed.

Not to hijack the thread, but im in the same boat! No pun intended. Live in Tx and no luck selling my 05 30 Outlaw. Just listed it on Craigslist Chicago given the big performance boat market there. Afterall, thats where I bought it. Open to any thoughts as well. Pop yachts is also brokering it on boattrader and other sites. Thanks.

The liner issues killed the values of the 26, 30 & 35. I have a 2007 26 I can take $39k for not one call on it.

ya, had heard of those issues, but I guess I am lucky. 300 engine hours of pure fun in the sun and no issues like those that some obviously had. Come on sale! :)

Thanks for all the feedback!! I will get her all cleaned up and list,it again in the spring. I listed it the week I bought my second boat and was anxious about getting the old one sold. No lien on the Baja so I just winterized it and will work on the ad and list again.

Greg

Greg, good luck and hopefully when the birds start to sing again someone will buy it.

For what's it worth, sold my last boat in the month of Nov, bought my current boat in the month of Feb (in Chicago of all places), so holding on to that glimmer of hope as it relates to off season boat buy/sell transactions... :)

I have had great luck using eBay. You can post a ton of pics, links to running videos, write a book about it, etc. I sold my 342 in August. I had it listed on CL, OSO, powerboatlistings.com and eBay. 99% of the calls came from eBay. I would ask potential buyers where they saw it. That would let me know which ads were worth renewing.