Broker Won't Answer

bjac

Member
Jul 13, 2008
232
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Boat Info
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer
Engines
Twin 350 Mag MPI 300hp w/Bravo III Drives
Does anyone in the Trenton N.J. area recognize this boat. If you do and you know the owner you might like to let him know that I have tried several contacts with the broker it is listed with to get more information on the boat. No response whatsoever. Glad I'm not selling mine with this broker.
2008 Sea Ray 38.jpg
 
Easily 60% of my attempts to contact a broker when boat shopping earlier this year went unanswered. Even repeated attempts. It was pretty frustrating...
 
That amazes me. If I were going to get 10% on the sale, or even a good part of that percentage, I'd be busting my butt to put the sale together.
 
Lets hope someone just didn't just steal some pictures and put and ad together.

I'm waiting patiently at work trying to get someone to call me back on a $1300 bearing I need...... and calls go unanswered. :(
 
Not sure if it is the same, but in real estate nowadays with the IDX feeds and the way "Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, etc" work most of the time you are are not contacting the true listing broker.
 
See if you can find the broker name and Google or call the brokerage to get the mobile phone. Most were reasonably good that way compared to other contacts they may not get so easily.

MM
 
We bought a boat this summer and I'd say about at least 50% of the numbers I called went unanswered.
 
From my experiences there are two challenges.

First, there are boats which sold previously which are still advertised. The 47DB I previously owned I bought through a private sale from the owner. I would see the boat listed in ad's for several months.

Talking to the previous owner, these ads were on sites where he had never advertised the boat. The second challenge.

Many of the large brokerages will include boats on their sites which they are not the selling broker. If they can capture your interest, then they go back to the listing broker and negotiate their cut saying they are the buyer broker. If they have already tried to "worm" their way into the deal and were unsuccessful with that selling broker, they are not going to return and calls or emails.
 
Challenge #3: Brokers who have an exclusive contract on a boat, but don’t return calls.

I have a text from a broker who promised to call me as soon as he completed the sea trial he was on.

That was July.
 
It’s possible the boat has already been sold. Or, it’s under contract going through survey, etc. and will be closed on soon. Doesn’t make the broker incompetent. Just discourteous.
 

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