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How to read what a seller wrote. The phrases used boat listings lean on, and what each one costs you.
A used boat listing is written by somebody who wants it gone. These guides take the phrases those listings lean on and put a number or a consequence against each one, so you can tell which sentences are honest shorthand and which are doing work.
Most of what you need is in the advert before you message the seller at all. Whether the trailer is included, whether the title is in hand, how long ago it last ran and how the seller wants to be paid are all visible in the wording. So is the shape of a scam.
The listing shapes that turn up again and again: the price that is too far under, the recycled photo set, the same boat in three towns, and the move off-platform. What each one is doing and how to check it in a minute.
A glossary of the phrases used boat sellers reach for, what each one usually means mechanically, and roughly what it takes off the price.