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    Yachtworld Advanced Search Function

    If you think Yachtworld Treats the Boating Viewers bad then... If you think YachtWorld treats the boating viewers badly, you should be on the profesional side, BoatWizard. In the past 2 years there have been over 12 price increases to the "members" that list the boats on their site! (Some have...
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    Sellers broker refuses to split commission

    Brooksie: too bad you are in Cape Cod, otherwise I would have listed and sold your Willard. (they were made locally and are well known here is Southern California). A lot of "corporate firms" limit what they will list and sell due to costs. Here most firms will only list vessels 15 years and...
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    Sellers broker refuses to split commission

    Your "buying broker" should have figured out for you a "good offer' that would have figured in all of the fees, including his own. Seems like both were trying to "double dip". I have done many of these transactions, on both sides and have yet to lose a transaction due to "commissions". To begin...
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    Sellers broker refuses to split commission

    I find it interesting how generous everyone is! Especially with other people's time and money!
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    Sellers broker refuses to split commission

    As a broker, I deal with this quite often. Here are some circumstances this occurs. Often the selling broker has made special arrangements (lower commission, special concessions, such as repairs, show entry costs, ect) with the seller and has fronted "costs" and wants to "recoup" them. Other...
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    soldboats

    "SoldBoats" Reports "SoldBoats" is a professional subscription portion of YachWorld. It is also used by lenders and tax departments along with those of us professional brokers to establish not only an "ask" price but to determine what a good offer is. In my 20 years I've found that the...
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    Totally dissed by broker

    I know Jeff as a colleague from the professional organization, the California Yacht Brokers Association and as a CPYB (Certified Professional Yacht Broker). He's a real pro in his area of speciality and I have comfortably referred interested parties to him when they were looking for vessel that...
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    What is the best response?

    I'm a Yacht Broker. I've had old men tear up, women hit me crying "you sold my boat" (even though that's what they hired me to do). For true boaters it's sad day when they sell, even if they are getting a bigger, newer, "better boat". It's more of a part of them and their story. For those that...
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