Sea Ray sent me money!

islandhopper00

islandhopper00

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Jan 4, 2007
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Lake Norman (Denver) NC
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240 Sundancer
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5.0L 260hp, BIII outdrive
So, Sea Ray sent me a Loyalty Bonus, in the form of a discount to buy a new boat!

If I buy a 260 or 280 I can get up to $10,500.00
If I buy a 310 or 330 I can get up to $17,000.00
If I buy a 350 or 370 I can get up to $22,500.00

Personally I appreciate the gesture, and think it's a wonderful thing for Sea Ray to try to entice people on the fence to make a move. Thank You Sea Ray for the thought.
Here is the problem for me. Sea Ray doesn't make a boat in the size range that I like, AND/OR can afford....even with the discount!!!

If I "WAS" to buy a new boat, it would have to be a 310 or 330 with inboards and shafts. I can't imagine how much a new one of them costs...more then I would spend I'm sure "AND" I'm supposedly upper middle class. LOL!


But Thank You Sea Ray, really, I mean that.
 
That's pretty cool! :thumbsup:

How did you manage that? Have you purchased several new Sea Rays? Lol!

Where's my discount? :smt089
 
To tell you the truth with Sea Rays screw up with the sea ray club mess I would buy a Stainless snap fro, them.
 
Hey -- I got the same exact offer yesterday. The lowest discount is more than I paid for my current boat.
 
I got the same rebate offfer - but it says my dealer is MM in NY...Wonder where they got that. On the new SROC website, I set up my dealer as Erwin Marine in Chattanooga...
 
carterchapman said:
I got the same rebate offfer - but it says my dealer is MM in NY...Wonder where they got that. On the new SROC website, I set up my dealer as Erwin Marine in Chattanooga...
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It's based upon your home address. Sea Ray will only sell you a new boat from a dealer near your home. Even if you don't like the dealer near your home, to bad, so sad.....unless you can list another address! lol
 
islandhopper00 said:
So, Sea Ray sent me a Loyalty Bonus, in the form of a discount to buy a new boat!

If I buy a 260 or 280 I can get up to $10,500.00
If I buy a 310 or 330 I can get up to $17,000.00
If I buy a 350 or 370 I can get up to $22,500.00

Personally I appreciate the gesture, and think it's a wonderful thing for Sea Ray to try to entice people on the fence to make a move. Thank You Sea Ray for the thought.
Here is the problem for me. Sea Ray doesn't make a boat in the size range that I like, AND/OR can afford....even with the discount!!!

If I "WAS" to buy a new boat, it would have to be a 310 or 330 with inboards and shafts. I can't imagine how much a new one of them costs...more then I would spend I'm sure "AND" I'm supposedly upper middle class. LOL!


But Thank You Sea Ray, really, I mean that.
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Won't even cover the sales tax...


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There are still many great deals to be had on the used cruiser market so buying new doesn't make sense to me. I suspect in 5-7 years that won't be the case as the new boat market has shifted to deck boats and the number of new cruisers being sold is down. This was evident at our local boat show where Sea Ray only had two cruisers compared with 8 or more in years past. It's also evident on my dock where the cruisers are slowly being sold off and deck boats on lifts are taking their place.
 
JimT said:
There are still many great deals to be had on the used cruiser market so buying new doesn't make sense to me. I suspect in 5-7 years that won't be the case as the new boat market has shifted to deck boats and the number of new cruisers being sold is down. This was evident at our local boat show where Sea Ray only had two cruisers compared with 8 or more in years past. It's also evident on my dock where the cruisers are slowly being sold off and deck boats on lifts are taking their place.
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Yeah Jim I think you are spot on - 10yrs ago on LKN you never saw anything but 25ft+ cruisers. Now, I see maybe 2 cruisers on the lake for every 10 big bowriders. I think the driver is time, people in the boat market - families with school age children - don't have time to spend the weekend on the boat, but they still want a nice platform for an afternoon. Hence the 25ft bowrider with all the comforts. I think the cruiser market is going to the younger couples with $$ and no kids and the older crowed where the kids are grown up. I know with our cruiser, when we bought it our daughter was 6 and we spent practically every weekend on it. As she got older it was harder with the other "kid" activities on the weekend. By the time we sold it, me and the dog were the only ones who had spent a night on it in over a year. I have a small bowrider now, only because that is what we had at at lake house that we sold a couple of years ago. I am on fence, with our daughter graduating from college this year and pretty much out of the house, we have plenty of time - I like the idea of spending weekends on the boat, but I also like the ease of having a smaller bowrider (bigger than what I have) in dry storage. I don't worry about it when I am not around, it is inside, dry, clean and a text get's it launched and ready to go. I have also found we go to more places on the lake - not worried about burning 100gal of fuel for a day on the lake, easy to get a smaller boat into restaurants etc. I have been literally all over LKN in the last couple of years in the bowrider, with the 290da, I hardly ever went much farther than Ramsey Creek or Marker 8 at the point. That boat went past hwy 150 maybe 5 times.

A real world example is some friends I have from my PYC days - they had a 300da that they had quit using much due to the fuss of taking it out -- they sold it a year or two ago -- this year at the boat show they bought a big tricked out pontoon boat. Now I wouldn't do that, but it's basically the same concept as a big bowrider.

But yes, the boat market has definitely changed in the last 10yrs
 
Agree with the above comments. It's all about pontoons and day boats up here. The market is flooded with sport cruisers under 35' up here and there are a lot of deals on the used ones. I agree that the incentives need to be better to get people into the new Sundancers.

On the the other side.... Sea Ray (and every their major competitors) have completely priced people out of the day boat market...have you seen the price on the SLX's, particularly the 350 SLX? I'm not talking about your average Joe can't afford them....even "financially capable" buyers look at those prices and scratch their head. You need "I don't care money" to buy these boats. Case in point, my wife and I can afford -- and are financially capable -- of buying a new SLX but it requires a big trade off. Do I divert that money from an investment account or put it into a boat? Let me think about that? I can afford the payments and I will continue to invest in IRA's and 401k's but I would need to decrease or stop putting money into an investment account. Apply the monthly payment amount and weigh the choices over 5 years: I will owe more on the boat than it's worth vs. I will have a significant amount money set aside for my future in the investment account. The choice is obvious... buy a great used boat for under $20k and pay cash.
 
Tonka Boater said:
Agree with the above comments. It's all about pontoons and day boats up here. The market is flooded with sport cruisers under 35' up here and there are a lot of deals on the used ones. I agree that the incentives need to be better to get people into the new Sundancers.

On the the other side.... Sea Ray (and every their major competitors) have completely priced people out of the day boat market...have you seen the price on the SLX's, particularly the 350 SLX? I'm not talking about your average Joe can't afford them....even "financially capable" buyers look at those prices and scratch their head. You need "I don't care money" to buy these boats. Case in point, my wife and I can afford -- and are financially capable -- of buying a new SLX but it requires a big trade off. Do I divert that money from an investment account or put it into a boat? Let me think about that? I can afford the payments and I will continue to invest in IRA's and 401k's but I would need to decrease or stop putting money into an investment account. Apply the monthly payment amount and weigh the choices over 5 years: I will owe more on the boat than it's worth vs. I will have a significant amount money set aside for my future in the investment account. The choice is obvious... buy a great used boat for under $20k and pay cash.
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I'm not getting into the whole cash vs. credit debate. But the point about the new pricing is spot on. I was shocked to see the price on the 280 SLX in the $180,000 range. That is more than double what we paid for our 270. They are nice, but not that nice. We are firmly out of the boat market, but if we were looking I would have to consider Regal, Crownline or Chapparal due to the pricing. I love my Sea Ray, but am being priced out of the brand.
 
I got that coupon as well. Then I happened to go to the Long Island Boat show over the weekend. I was happy to see more boats on display than I've seen at that show in years, and good traffic as well. The show was dominated with center consoles and open bow boats - even quite large ones.

But there's nothing in the Sea Ray line that interests me. They only cruiser on display was a DA 330 (I think). The cockpit felt very cramped, and the cabin below had a terrible layout for anyone that actually wanted to sleep over on it. Not a fan of all the brown upholstery either. Plus the price was way out of line with what I would want to pay.
 
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