Create a simple website and highlight the boat with photos on it. List all your upgrades and other information. Then on any ads you post put in a link to the web site. This really helps sales.
We sold our Niagara 26 on Kijiji with a link to a web site for the boat. The site showed pictures and described all gear and upgrades. I also have had a web site for the replacement boat from the time we purchased it. Any person who types "J/27 for sale" in Google sees this site in the top 15 entries (#4 in Bing). The boat is not for sale nor is it listed for sale but it comes up anyway. The boat is also well known as a J/27 should we decide to sell it. http://users.eastlink.ca/~mhoyt/ The funny thing about the kijiji saga is that I would contact a buyer back and they would ask questions like "which boat was that?" since they had replied to a lot of ads. Other questions were "does it have a toilet?" which was ironic because the head was listed in the equipment and in the upgrades and there was a photo of it on the website. The boat sold for $750 less than asking price to a pair of friends looking for a Niagara 26 who travelled quite far and picked it over two in the Montreal area. They picked this boat because of the upgrades and the sails and the fact that it was documented online for easy reference. There was even a copy of a survey from six years previous to the sale available to view on the web site. I will also consider doing future sales of my boats on my own. Mike From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Bina Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 11:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Boat for Sale-Where to Advertise? Points East magazine is similar to Windcheck, and is distributed free in many of the same locations around the LIS. It covers all of New England. I imagine that it would be seen by a lot of sailors within reasonable marketing distance, such as Mystic, Ct, All of Narragansett Bay, The eastern forks of Long Island and many other areas that are close enough to you, but where Points East is probably more widely distributed than Windcheck. https://www.pointseast.com/ Bill Bina On 4/7/2014 9:37 AM, Bob Dryer wrote: My C+C 29 On Western Long Island Sound is for sale. I am advertising on Sailing Texas and Windcheck, as well as local bulletin boards. I am looking for ideas as to how else I can reach potential buyers. Bob Dryer _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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