Ive been watching one since February, the guy hasnt dropped his price which was already top dollar, but says he is after a quick sale.

It seems to me TradeMe people are trying to often get more than what an items worth. In OZ ebay works much better because people seem to have realistic prices (which is driven by the market).

Given we are now nearly in winter surely boats become even harder to sell? Ive seen some bargains take a couple of months to sell in summer, I just cant imagine how long it must take to sell a boat at above value in winter.

So at what point do you give up asking/waiting for a fair price?

hahaha nice one SJ, now i get whats going on with this guy. perhaps i need to needle him more about how much value our better halves add to our lives hehe.

there does seem to be a far greater percentage of dreamers in nz compared to oz though when it comes to older used boats. often they cost more now than when they were new hehe.

been there done that, they said, well im just waiting to see what the market offers, even when i offered the asking price. i think this particular case ive struck a looney. time to move on and take one of the easier options i guess.

but most of the time, when i offer say within 10% of the asking price its a no anyway. i just refuse to pay more that what an items worth, especially going into winter.

im more frustrated at the consistency of dreamers than it being an occasional issue. of course they dont hae to sell it at the end of the day.

perhaps im alone in this thinking because it really is a nz/trademe culture. things just seem so much better and open market with ebay. i miss it. mostly because you can get a wider variety of product. i guess we just dont have the demand in nz.

A boat I was very keen on started off at one price, I asked a couple of questions then decided that I would wait for a couple of months.
It then appeared for $3000 less.
I intended buying it at that price but when I emailed, they said they were in starship hospital with a sick child. I asked them to contact me when they were ready. The auction finished and I awaited a email but no so thought I had missed out. A month later it was listed again at another $2000 less. Came home and discussed it with Brenda and she said buy it so went to work ready to do the even better deal than I was willing to pay a month earlier but it had sold.
Some people are not at all worried about selling whereas others havnt got the faintest idea how to get back in touch.
I was ready to pay $2000 more and was tempted to pay $5000 but the lack of emails cost them $5000.
Was a real good deal for the person that bought it for sure when compared to the prices the same boats seem to sell for.

If people want to sell, they will meet serious offers but if they dont need to seel then they may as well let it sit and relist when they have to

I've seen boats on trademe for years, boats there when we bought a boat were still there when we bought the next one (same ad, not being sold again).

I had mine on for about 2 weeks and sold.  Fair price for a well known model and was prepared to negotiate.  6 months later there are still some on there that weren't realistic or their wives wanted them to sell...

Until they sell ....

pjc wrote: prepared to drop $5k you might of come out on the rightside of the deal,what was he hiding?might of been waiting for a sucker.i got caught on first boat price dropped i jumped and yep it cost me $3.5k for a good 2nd hand motor

I suspect that you are probably correct but it looked good to me.

Possibly paid too much them selves and are too stubborn to admit it , I looked fora few months and yep there are some absolute dreamers on trade me especially the ones that think old outboards are worth anything, should start a thread called twats selling junk on T M .

yea there are some dreamer's out there on TM, more so with cars i reckon.