There are many ways to manipulate that!!!
I would not be surprised at all if some bs bidding was taking place in that case.
I had 3 other people it looks to be very interested and over $7000. No bidding manipulation allowed on ebay and anyone who is willing to try that will get banned and their systems are very good now.
I did mispeak earlier with Bruce's boat he bought from me as I actually had 2 2007 sx230 identical over the years but both boat were bought with less than 20 hours in new condition; all other boats were bought just like this one and the only reason I did not keep was timing. Here is the list of other boats and all projects just like this one.
I will also say when I got the text yeseterday morning from Walt saying, "Im sure you have seen this thread but just in case here it is" with link for this thread. My first gut though was I was super pumped and was sure it was going to be Walt out on the water cruising around after finding an easy (however unlikely) easy fix.....I was shocked reading this instead. After reading this and seeing the spark plugs that I had not checked and did not think important after seeing 2 newer fired spark plugs, that there was absolutely zero info to gain from the plugs (as I assumed they all were recently changed, as I assume most would). Imagine you are looking at a ski that you were told did not run and you pulled the plugs (or only 1 plug forthat matter) and they looked recently changed or new. All that would tell anyone mechanically inclined is that someone changed plugs AFTER the engine issue or problem and would tell nothing about the state of the engine. I do feel I wished I had checked them all as why only two look that way is something I regret but would do over and over again in the same situation. I literally leaned over on the port engine, pulled the closest plug to me and thought it looked new. I than skipped the second one just to spread the inspection and it looked brand new. At that point I stopped but really thought I had checked one on the other engine as well. I also feel like having a fellow Jboater locally checking it out would have missed something that I pointed out...I am not perfect and gave it my best opinion but can never get ever perception for the buyer 100% and why I am always a fan of checking things out in person myself....even my own dad or brother or son misses things when buying something that I can point out or vice versa.....anyway, back to my list of boats I have a bought and prices and issues they had. They have all been my personal boats for years after and I feel that the prices reflect what this boat went for; as I stated I thought it was higher than my guestimate of $55-6000 to the old guy with cancer ( I will be posting emails for anyone interested from him when he initially emailed terrible pics, maybe 6 of them when I originally told him I was not interested in buying myself as time was not on my side). As far as not believing the BS story about this guy and cancer, I will and Walt will confirm the guy was from Michigan but you will have to take my word on the lung cancer as that was told to me after he showed up and why he was selling).
Anyway, YJBs in this order I have owned and prices:
2000 XR1800 (in or around 2006) - $6000 - needed new interior, top ends put back together, gas, carbs and cables
2007 SX230 (in or around 2008) - $33,000 - needed nothing
2000 LS2000 (in or around 2009/10? - $5500 - condition unknown at purchase as it had dead battery)from harley dealer), ended up engines were good and needed gas, carbs, cables.
2004 AR230 (2011?) - $6000, Ebay with cracked hull, defintely submerged and NO TRAILER. Interior was good, cables bad. Needed new engines.
2007 SX230 (bruces boat and year? 2012?) - $22,000 in Winter time. Mint with only 15 hours if I rememeber at scan; sold to Bruce for ------. Had 30 hours at sale.
2009 sx210 (2014?) - bought for $9000 with trailer. Interior silver only shot, 170 hours and ran but check engine lights. Needed sensors, cables, repaired top silver only and reused all white original vinyl (pic attached, elite mats, decals, rails - sold after used for 1 year for $18,000
2005 SX230 (2016?) - $1500. Bought boat unseen knowing engines were bad, interior bad, basically everything. Turned out engines ended up being perfect and dealer misdiagnosed them as hydrolocked due to faulty (common) ecu issue you all know abot Im sure, keeping injectors open, flooding engines and overfilling oil. Needed interior, cables, ecu's rebuilt ($250 a piece from Italy) Elite mats. Basically $3500 all in for a perfect boat and only had 60 hours on scan on it.
The point is regardless of all the chatter about me being dishonest or trying to screw someone over (and while completely the opposite ofcourse in my opinion of what happened) is that this was a pretty fair price, albeit a little higher than I thought for this kind of project boat. While I have boat newish boats, I have also loved the project boats. I have always expected the worse and while sometimes I have gotten lucky (like the 2005 for $1500, pic attached of that boat) I have also been dissapointed in some that they had more work than not expected, but hoped. Not once have I ever called back or gone alone to bash the seller. Walt, to you, I would say I have texted several times with you after the purchase and asked you directly to let me know what you found once you got further into the engines or jet pumps. As I told you, my next step would have been to pull pumps to see if they were bound and literal did not have the time to do that myself. I was kicking myself a bit for selling it instead of buying it (I could have gotten it for a bit less) but did not want it sitting for 6 months and than still having to store my other jet tender. These pics are after of 2009 sx210 and 2005 sx230. I wish I had taked some before pics but these boats did NOT look nearly as good as the 2006 sx230 walt bought. MUCH MUCH worse. The point is I LOVE this project type boat. Found the befores of interior. The 2005 all of the interior I redid ($1500). The 2009 sx210 (might actually be 2008?) I only replaced the top gray section; I re-used ALL of the original white ($900)
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