Tige Boat Sales

[ahicken]

Does anyone have any information about how new Tige's are selling. With the housing slump and slowing economy I wonder how far sales have decreased. I worry about resale on my RZ4. Not that I am selling any time soon. A few years ago prices were going up so fast on boats that you could sell two year old boats for almost what they cost new.

[LadiesMan217]

Does anyone have any information about how new Tige's are selling. With the housing slump and slowing economy I wonder how far sales have decreased. I worry about resale on my RZ4. Not that I am selling any time soon. A few years ago prices were going up so fast on boats that you could sell two year old boats for almost what they cost new.

I think a dozen or more just on this site in the past three months! is that good?

[FIC]

We are a fairly new tige dealer going into are 4th season, we had sales growth and goiing into 2008 we having been doing more demos ,quotes and sales then last year , we are gaining on our competitors and will continue to do so . When you sell a good product thats affordable people see the differance and custormer service is no.1. As far as resale used boat sales are high in a slow economy and tige resale is very good here in Fla.

[ahicken]

We are a fairly new tige dealer going into are 4th season, we had sales growth and goiing into 2008 we having been doing more demos ,quotes and sales then last year , we are gaining on our competitors and will continue to do so . When you sell a good product thats affordable people see the differance and custormer service is no.1. As far as resale used boat sales are high in a slow economy and tige resale is very good here in Fla.

That is good to hear. I know florida has been hit hard with the mortgage melt down. I was assuming that a lot of people use their home equity to purchase a boat and that equity might not be there any more.

[talltigeguy]

ahicken,

It seems to be no problem in our neck of the woods. Every Tom **** and Harry has a new wakeboard boat.

Roger at RPM has sold unbeleivable numbers, it would not suprise me if he is the #1 Supreme dealer in the nation.

I think resale will be better for us than other brands. I already have a few Supreme owners who would buy my Tige in a heartbeat, even though their current boat is newer. I hope to upgrade this summer, and I also hope the housing and mortgage meltdown does not affect my resale.

[ahicken]

ahicken,

It seems to be no problem in our neck of the woods. Every Tom **** and Harry has a new wakeboard boat.

Roger at RPM has sold unbeleivable numbers, it would not suprise me if he is the #1 Supreme dealer in the nation.

I think resale will be better for us than other brands. I already have a few Supreme owners who would buy my Tige in a heartbeat, even though their current boat is newer. I hope to upgrade this summer, and I also hope the housing and mortgage meltdown does not affect my resale.

I spent alot of time with Roger and Josh. The main reason I went with tige, was resale. The Supreme just didn't have the quality feel to me. By the way, have you seen all the new Centurion's down at Painters.

[Jason B]

That is good to hear. I know florida has been hit hard with the mortgage melt down. I was assuming that a lot of people use their home equity to purchase a boat and that equity might not be there any more.

Doesn't matter if the equity is there anymore or not, if they already have the money spent the bank can't do anything about it. If they try to sell the house, then they will probably have to sell the boat to get out from under the home. If that happened A LOT it would drive prices of boats down; the chances of that happening has to be astronmically low.
From my understanding the FL meltdown was caused by speculative buyers hoping for quick flips in a super hot market (same w/ Vegas). I can't imagine too many people would have tapped credit to buy a boat on a house purchased for profit.