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I'd like to preface this thread by saying I did not post this to sound like I'm bashing them by any means, I was just shocked to hear this. I know Eliminator is taking a different direction in the post Bob Leach era I just didn't think it would be this drastic.
By selling just Speedsters and Fundecks are they trying to be a "DCB like" company? I personally think it's a mistake but that's my opinion. Does that mean that a beginner/entry level boat is now somewhere in the neighborhood of $160K? I think they are alienating a bunch of possible customers and I will use my personal experience to try and explain it.
In 2003 the wife and I were thinking about selling our SeaRay and stepping up to a basic performance boat. After looking at many boats we had it narrowed down to a 260 Eagle and a 27' Fountain. We ended up buying the Eliminator because the price was less than the Fountain. It was about $60K brand new. Fast forward we ended up buying 3 more Eliminators including one being over $200K. I'll be real honest here, if we would of never bought that first one and realized the family that is Eliminator we never would of probably bought an Eliminator at all.
They need to be able to bring in beginner performance boaters and keep them as a customer for life. That's kind of hard to do if someone is a little afraid of owning a cat for their first performance boat or can't swing the base price of $160K.
Some of the hulls I wish they'd still build are the 236, 260, 300 Eagle and the 22 and 27 standard deck Daytonas.
By selling just Speedsters and Fundecks are they trying to be a "DCB like" company? I personally think it's a mistake but that's my opinion. Does that mean that a beginner/entry level boat is now somewhere in the neighborhood of $160K? I think they are alienating a bunch of possible customers and I will use my personal experience to try and explain it.
In 2003 the wife and I were thinking about selling our SeaRay and stepping up to a basic performance boat. After looking at many boats we had it narrowed down to a 260 Eagle and a 27' Fountain. We ended up buying the Eliminator because the price was less than the Fountain. It was about $60K brand new. Fast forward we ended up buying 3 more Eliminators including one being over $200K. I'll be real honest here, if we would of never bought that first one and realized the family that is Eliminator we never would of probably bought an Eliminator at all.
They need to be able to bring in beginner performance boaters and keep them as a customer for life. That's kind of hard to do if someone is a little afraid of owning a cat for their first performance boat or can't swing the base price of $160K.
Some of the hulls I wish they'd still build are the 236, 260, 300 Eagle and the 22 and 27 standard deck Daytonas.
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