What a Concept!!!

[smoothmove]

Just received an email from a local Sea Ray distributor. (they're huge) Talking about a "Demo Day" Here's a direct quote from the email.

"Some people need to demo a boat before they make the final decision to purchase. To make it easy for you we are scheduling demos on some of our most popular model."

What? just the particular ones? Can you imagine? The scary thing about that is what it implies. That is - everyone else just goes ahead and buys without a "demo". I'll try to steer clear of all shiny new Sea Rays next Spring. (Actually all season long)

Eric

 

[Freestyle]

Do they actually get the boat underway or do they demo the feeling of ownership by serving drinks and letting you sit on it with the stereo playing?

Bruce
Freestyle
1976 43 DCMY
Tampa

 

[67hat34c]

no, they demo in a river and that is it. they dont take a SeaRay to Sea. and you can be they will be serving. They will have the outside table set up with wine and cheese and everthing will look very high class,,,notice I said Look. Dont look for an engine room tour unless you are Mini-Me and that may be tight also.

 

[67hat34c]

Hey Idea.......................why not take a demo and report to us , photos and all, ask them the pressing questions we all want to know. ask for engine room tour then ask them how do you get to each item. ask everything and make us a report, that could be fun for you and us.

 

[Freestyle]

On the demo find out how they teach all of their owners to pass slower boats by coming off of a plane, easing along side, and then doing a hole shot once they are abeam of the overtaken vessel.

I was on one at a boat show last week. I opened the sound shield of the generator on the only side that was accessible. They installed the thing with the dip stick, oil fill, fuel filter and water pump on the side next to the bulkhead. I think you would have to remove the generator to service any of these functions.

I asked the sales guy and he said most people have the dealer do those services. I have the same generator and know when cruising the oill gets changed every 200 hours which is a week or so. But the point is their owners only dream of using a boat like I do whereas I just do it -- and for a lot less money.

Bruce
1976 43 DCMY
Freestyle

 

[neosin]

it is funny some of these guys that buy these boats. LOL i poke the same fun at people who buy BMWs and Mercs... Same thing. Crap car they have no idea how to take care of it just drive it around saying "look at me, more money than brains!" I can't believe the prices some people pay for such a small stupid car. You can get so much more but it's all about image.

Same thing in boats... Just cracks me up. I love knowing i spent dang near nothing to have the lifestyle and some people spend 300, 500 and millions for the same thing! hahah Some people just have to live on vanity...

Well somethings never change i guess.

 

[DCMY #92]

I bought a new 18 foot SeaRay in 87 for skiing and short trips on the St. Johns river where we lived and kept the Hat. I asked the salesman if I could come along on the SeaRay Club's trips to the Bahamas and said "absolutely" - until I told him I would bring the Hatteras and leave the toy at home. He then said "no way".

 

[Boatsb]

I guess he didn't feel they needed a safety crew for the crossing. Too bad he was probably wrong.

We have 6 slips in our marina for Searay to do service since they are next door. A 48 sedan was in for the one year fixup and was leaving for Virginia. I asked how they were going and the lady replied "inside because the sea is over 2 foot and thats just not comfortable". I told he she needs a Hatteras and she replied she had heard alot of good about them but they were un-affordable ( sitting in her million dollar chlorox bottle) . I couldn't bring myself to tell her what she could have picked up for half what they spent.

 

[Freestyle]

I had a similar experience last spring while delivering a bristol 1984 53 ED from Miami to Savanna. We tied up at New Smyrna and two couples were partying hard on the back of their new Carvers. The two apparently traded up every few years and now each had 48 feet of clorox bottle. They gave us a tour of the two berth (SR would be an exagerration) layout, galley, etc. No need to see an engine room as it was in the lazerette.

Nice people so we gave them a tour of the ED, its 3 SR's and heads, two walk around engine rooms, huge flybridge, and main salon with a billion square feeet.

They finally asked what the ED cost. When we told them a number less than half of what they had in their Carvers their faces looked like cavemen who had discovered fire. I don't know if they are on the forum yet but these boaters will be some day because their wives will not have it any other way.

Bruce
Freestyle
1976 43 DCMY
Tampa

 

[Westfield 11]

it is funny some of these guys that buy these boats. LOL i poke the same fun at people who buy BMWs and Mercs... Same thing. Crap car they have no idea how to take care of it just drive it around saying "look at me, more money than brains!" I can't believe the prices some people pay for such a small stupid car. You can get so much more but it's all about image.

I wil have to keep this in mind next week while driving my 1994 E320 wagon across the Arizona desert on cruise control @ 100mph. I am hoping to watch the odometer on this "small stupid car" roll over to 300,000 miles on the trip. I am such shallow moron that I never noticed what crap car my 1993 SL600 was when I bought it a couple of years ago. I was so blind to the obvious that I thought 400hp, 155mph and two hardtops for under 25k was a good deal.

Thanks for opening my eyes......

 

[Boss Lady]

I would say that you bought the equivalent of a classic Hatteras, "good engineering, high quality construction, performance, class and style" even though the "masses" may be enamoured with the flavor of the month, those in the know are content to look in the mirror and know that they bought the real bargain. LOL