Why so many O/B cats for sale
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I just can't get my hands around the fact that you back out the cost of $60K in outboards ( 400's ), and $25K for a trailer, and you're paying $315K for a 34' Hull ($400K average price used) lmao.. I was going to look into buying one for the ease of use / maintenance, but I think I'll wait for them to be priced more realistically for what they're worth.
They sure don’t look as good as the new pilini though.
Dont the 450s and 300s at least have a little V8 roar?
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A year of my wages now won't buy a beat up old boat in need of ???
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I just can't get my hands around the fact that you back out the cost of $60K in outboards ( 400's ), and $25K for a trailer, and you're paying $315K for a 34' Hull ($400K average price used) lmao.. I was going to look into buying one for the ease of use / maintenance, but I think I'll wait for them to be priced more realistically for what they're worth.
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. The cost of the tooling is very expensive. The boats are designed on CAD and plugs are cut on a 5 axis router. This is very expensive. The craftsman that use to build them from scratch are gone. With tooling costs and labor costs its easy to see why they are so expensive. Also the tooling is usually not correct and adds hundreds of hours of labor to the boats.
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What I can't understand on all this "price of materials/ tooling etc " going up and its something we see in everything.
Yet I know NO ONE that their wages have went up the same amount if at all. What is the driver of the increased costs? The money has to be going somewhere.
Yet I know NO ONE that their wages have went up the same amount if at all. What is the driver of the increased costs? The money has to be going somewhere.
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I think people who cant just pay cash, have in general realized financing a depreciating asset like a boat for 2-3 times their annual income is a terrible idea, so you get the cheap entry boats (up to 150k that really isn’t a HUGE loan, and then the big ballers at 400k+ Cash, no buyers in the middle
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The best analogy mentioned before " They're priced according to what the market will bear". I would certainly agree with that. And if I was a manufacture I would try to charge and build as much as I could while the getting is good, cause sooner or later the dance will stop.
I'm just surprised that the used ones for sale are "asking" what they are.
I'm just surprised that the used ones for sale are "asking" what they are.
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