Docmaster1
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- May 3, 2020
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Hello all,
I would like to tap into your amazing forum and ask for advise and feedback on my current situation. I have read several thread on here and have learned a lot but I do have some more specific questions for my current situation.
We live on lake Minnetonka in Minnesota (by “on” I mean across the street with NO slip). We have been talking about buying a boat for at least 5 years now and this year is the year! Our boat type we plan on buying is an open bow between 20-25 feet wide. We have 6 people total, so 2 adults and 4 kids. We plan on boating primarily on Minnetonka On the weekends.
We started out planning on spending 10k cash sale for a relatively older boat with 400 or so hours. Then we thought we could spend maybe $20-$25k on a “not so used” boat, Then we stopped into Marine Max and the salesmen showed us a brand new 2020 Sea Ray 19SPX that was on their lot. the boat comes with a warranty, 3 years on the motor and 5 on everything else. The MSRP is just under $48,000, it actually comes with quite a bit of upgrades. The dealer offered us about $8,000 off the sales price and told us Sea Ray usually never offers incentives off boats during the spring or the beginning of the season on new models. Included in the price is all the lines, bumpers, life jackets, etc, etc.
I have read on this forum that smaller boats have less margin and usually a larger group of potential buyers, and therefore won’t always come with deep discounts.
As mentioned I have read it’s pretty common to get discounts but is the discount being offered (about 16% off MSRP) sufficient?
Should we expect more? Is the issues going on making it less or more likely that we would get a “good deal”.
Also I have read that you should try to do business with the dealers in your area where you plan on having maintenance and work done on your boat. So we want to (maybe too eagerly!) to do business with our local MM.
Any advise or info would be gladly appreciated. Thank you!
Dave
I would like to tap into your amazing forum and ask for advise and feedback on my current situation. I have read several thread on here and have learned a lot but I do have some more specific questions for my current situation.
We live on lake Minnetonka in Minnesota (by “on” I mean across the street with NO slip). We have been talking about buying a boat for at least 5 years now and this year is the year! Our boat type we plan on buying is an open bow between 20-25 feet wide. We have 6 people total, so 2 adults and 4 kids. We plan on boating primarily on Minnetonka On the weekends.
We started out planning on spending 10k cash sale for a relatively older boat with 400 or so hours. Then we thought we could spend maybe $20-$25k on a “not so used” boat, Then we stopped into Marine Max and the salesmen showed us a brand new 2020 Sea Ray 19SPX that was on their lot. the boat comes with a warranty, 3 years on the motor and 5 on everything else. The MSRP is just under $48,000, it actually comes with quite a bit of upgrades. The dealer offered us about $8,000 off the sales price and told us Sea Ray usually never offers incentives off boats during the spring or the beginning of the season on new models. Included in the price is all the lines, bumpers, life jackets, etc, etc.
I have read on this forum that smaller boats have less margin and usually a larger group of potential buyers, and therefore won’t always come with deep discounts.
As mentioned I have read it’s pretty common to get discounts but is the discount being offered (about 16% off MSRP) sufficient?
Should we expect more? Is the issues going on making it less or more likely that we would get a “good deal”.
Also I have read that you should try to do business with the dealers in your area where you plan on having maintenance and work done on your boat. So we want to (maybe too eagerly!) to do business with our local MM.
Any advise or info would be gladly appreciated. Thank you!
Dave