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Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat: Featuring Tips and Traps for the Smart Boat Buyer | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert J.p. Lamy, Robert J. P. Lamy
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 283920
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0071351507
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.82310296
UPC: 639785800811
EAN: 9780071351508
ASIN: 0071351507
Publication Date: October 9, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: some highlighting and underlining
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Product Description
Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat features tips and traps for the smart boat buyer. If you don't have an uncle in the boat-dealership business, here's the next-best thing: a longtime boat dealer and salesman who lets you in on trade secrets so you can buy a new or used boat without getting burned. J. P. Lamy lays out a step-by-step approach to finding the right small powerboat (under 30 feet) and buying it at a fair price with favorable financing. You will learn: - How salesmen are trained
- What their margins and markups are
- The use of the Internet for boat shopping
- What to look for, good and bad, in a new or used boat
- Checklists
- How to negotiate honestly but toughly
- How to shave thousands of dollars from an asking price
Endorsed by Boating magazine, Lamy's guide helps you take control and win in the bargaining process. When it comes to buying a boat, knowledge is power.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Great tips October 10, 2007
Quick read that gets right to the point. I haven't completed my boat purchase yet and have been researching for a year. I want to get the best boat for the money. The author's tips regarding communication with the seller or broker really work. I have gotten all kinds of information from brokers regarding boats that they have sold including selling prices and what I should expect to pay for similar boats. I feel much more confident and less concerned about rushing into things than I did before I read the book.
 Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat: Featuring Tips and Traps for the Smart Boat Buyer April 12, 2007
Excellent overview for the virgin potential boat buyer like me.
Not buying a powerboat, but December 4, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I brought this book because I thought that I would be buying a powerboat. However after discussions with my wife I am now looking for a big yacht-a really major purchase!
I'm using the same techniques that he recomends in the book though. I'm making an offer as recomended and walking away.
The sellers that I have dealt with have not been angry. They seem to appreciate an honest valuation.
I have not brought yet, but then I don't need to.
New to Boating (A Year Ago) November 15, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this book a year ago at a point where I knew nothing about powerboats. Reflecting back... this was a really good book in that it explains everything you want to know (and don't want to know) about purchasing a powerboat. There are entire sections dedicated to helping you decide specifically what type of powerboat you may want as well as sections dealing with boat inspections, sea trials, and techniques for purchasing.
The book is well worth the money.
Quick Read, Fantastic Advice September 19, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is short and easy to read, but contains outstanding advice. It walks you through the process of figuring out what type of boat might work best for you, and then helps you locate and evaluate potential boats. The checklists were great - they helped us be very thorough in looking over boats, and helped us realize when we found a boat that was a great steal. In addition, the author walks you through the negotiating process and gave us tips that saved us hundreds of dollars. He deals with the emotions of the process, which was very helpful as well. We always negotiate on all our purchases, but some of the tips here were new to me and worked extremely well. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone thinking about buying a boat.
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