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Offline seaweb11

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Bought a new business today!
« on: August 03, 2006, 11:02:14 PM »
I bought another on-line business today. http://www.usedboattrader.com

I'm just a bit exited and I wanted to share.  It's a nice site with good potential.
The owner contacted me a while back, but knowing how hard it is to come across someone who can manage and successfully market an on-line directory,  I must admit I strung him along for a bit.  He finally got frustrated and put it up for sale on Ebay.
I got it for thousands $$ less than he was asking at the beginning of our discussions.

I'm looking forward to the new challenge...........bikes are all running fine, nothing to do?
Should be fun to have that mail lady come more often as well ;D

......and no Terry, I haven't sold mine yet, but who knows what the future holds now :o
top right photo on site is mine if anyones interested


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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2006, 06:42:33 PM »
Best of luck on your new venture. Should be plenty of Yuppies with their jumbo adjustable mortgages who will be unloading their boats now that rates are climbing. Their loss your gain. Nice move the way you did that deal.
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 06:56:27 PM »
Way to go Derek!!!!

Checked out the site......LOOKS GOOD!! Too bad I dont have a boat for sale....whats that saying about the 2 best days of a boaters life is???


......uuuhhhmmm.....so I hear this cool cafe racer website in Ohio is for sale....uuuhhhhhmmm(clears throat...) ;D Just kidd'n

Good luck man.....send that successful business genie my way,
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2006, 07:33:27 PM »
Hey webby, have you got any battleships in, a cruiser would do but I would prefer the big one ;D ;D ;D ;D

Good luck with your new venture. ;)

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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2006, 07:39:13 AM »
Nice site,
but I didn't see any PT boats. Darn!
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2006, 10:44:15 AM »
Good Job Seaweb, great to see you get something this cool going.

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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2006, 01:36:26 PM »
good sight , put it on my favorites
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2006, 03:39:02 PM »
I bought another on-line business today. http://www.usedboattrader.com

I'm just a bit exited and I wanted to share.  It's a nice site with good potential.
The owner contacted me a while back, but knowing how hard it is to come across someone who can manage and successfully market an on-line directory,  I must admit I strung him along for a bit.  He finally got frustrated and put it up for sale on Ebay.
I got it for thousands $$ less than he was asking at the beginning of our discussions.

I'm looking forward to the new challenge...........bikes are all running fine, nothing to do?
Should be fun to have that mail lady come more often as well ;D

......and no Terry, I haven't sold mine yet, but who knows what the future holds now :o
top right photo on site is mine if anyones interested



Well done Derek! Now listen mate, as much as you love that ol' boat of yours, it's more a boat anchor than an asset, so how about you come to "Terry's house of boat arson where you never pay full price"?

Being both a boat hater (I get seasick on a wet lawn) and an arsonist (nah, not like in "Brokeback Mountain" Eldy........) it would be my pleasure to turn your beautiful restoration into a roaring inferno that no fireman could hope to control until it burns itself down to the water-line, by which time of course it'll be a total loss, and you can move on with a pocket full of insurance cash?

In fact, a lot of boat owners are in the same situation as your good self with their life savings bobbing up and down with the tide, so why not offer (covertly, of course) this additional service to your advertisers, i.e., if their boats don't sell after a month or two, they'll mysteriously explode, while the owners are attending the local policemans ball or some other similar public event, thus affording them an iron-clad alibi? Let me know mate, it works well here, business is (Ka)Booming"! Cheers, Terry. ;D
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2006, 05:54:15 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2006, 05:58:35 PM »
Worst day of my life. All my bikes are running fine and there is nothing to fiddle with.
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Re: Bought a new business today!
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2006, 09:28:05 PM »
Thanks guys.
Now all I have to do is see if I can beat up Yahoo and the other search engines like I did before ;D