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Re: Selling boats.
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 8/15/1999, 1:32 pm
In Response To: Selling boats. (Paul Woolson)

Oh sure, drive down the market :-).

Materials (for a kit) run $1,000 to $1,500. Even if you labor is not worth anything, you should probably not go lower than that. $2,000 to 2,500 is reasonable.

You could try EBay with a minimum bid of $1,500 and see what happens. I'm sure we would all be interested in your results.

> Hi all! After realizing that me Guillemot is way too much kayak for my
> needs (mostly protected flat water and streams) I've just finished
> stripping a much smaller boat. My question: How would one go about selling
> a perfectly good boat (been in the water twice) and how much would one
> realisticly ask for said boat. I remember reading about the
> "VALUE" of boats being $4000-$8000 in an earilier thread but I
> don't think that's realistic to actually make a sale. I would like to get
> my costs out of it as my time was spent having fun building and that's
> payment enough for me. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Paul

Messages In This Thread

Selling boats.
Paul Woolson -- 8/14/1999, 1:33 pm
Re: Selling boats.
Paul Woolson -- 8/17/1999, 1:00 pm
Re: Selling boats.
Nolan -- 8/18/1999, 7:06 am
Re: Selling Boats
Rick S. -- 8/20/1999, 1:34 pm
Re: Freight damage
Don Beale -- 8/18/1999, 2:06 am
Re: Selling boats.
Jamin -- 8/17/1999, 10:07 pm
Re: Selling boats.
Chris Bush -- 8/18/1999, 11:38 am
Re: Selling boats.
lee -- 8/17/1999, 12:10 pm
You can recover costs, and more...
Neil Hartford -- 8/18/1999, 9:08 am
Re: Selling boats.
Jay Babina -- 8/16/1999, 9:49 am
Re: Selling boats.
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/15/1999, 1:32 pm
Re: Selling boats.
builder -- 8/15/1999, 6:48 am
Re: Selling boats.
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/14/1999, 8:31 pm
Re: Selling boats.
Paul Woolson -- 8/15/1999, 12:50 pm