Boat TraderReviews of boattrader.com

I spent $170 for a 6 week listing due prime boating season (priced well below value to try to sell) and all I received was spam "pay $70 for a hull report and I will come look at it" which is a known scam. Not a single legitimate lead. I had way more leads from FB marketplace. Then they send you an email that your listing (and fee) will auto-renew and there is no way to stop that other than canceling your listing before it expires. I paid for 6 weeks, I should get the full 6 weeks without being forced to pay for another 6 weeks.

While Boat Trader had a great reputation…my recent experience has not been good. I have only had two potential buyers. Both wanted me to provide a thehincheck.us report. That company has very poor reviews. I offered to provide a Boat History Report. I think both potential buyers were connected to thehincheck.us and they were to profit from selling their service. Don’t fall for their sales pitch. Don’t fall for the line “I will reimburse you for the fee once I buy the boat”. Almost month a month of advertising and all I got were two scammers or one scammer using two fake names.

I've only been contacted by scammers. I paid to have it on Boat Trader and another site, but they forgot to put it on the other site. When I called, they fixed it and extended my time, but I want to sell my boat now, not when they feel like doing their job. Extremely disappointed with them especially for what they charge to post your boat.

This is a scam site. When you sign up they turn on auto-renewal AUTOMATICALLY. It can only be cancelled by phone call to them, but they never answer the phone or permit you to leave a voice mail. They just cut you off at precisely 12 minutes of waiting.

I would give it zero stars if I could. Total waste of money. Use Facebook marketplace instead!

I posted my boat on boat traders.com. It was the worst decision $200 was a waste of money. It was purchased off of Facebook marketplace within 15 days there were no customer support with boattraders.com they had the wrong information don’t use them. It’s a waste of money. terrance Stroman, 2012, hurricane 189

I bought a boat on this site years ago so I listed my boat -- what a crap site. First and foremost, they charge every two weeks autorenew only and you have to call to turn it off. What a despicable and should be illegal practice. You cannot turn it off online. Of course you can "upgrade" and do anything you want online except turn off autorenew. Second of all, I got a few legit emails but by I also listed on Facebook (for free) and got way, way more inquiries and more were local. Boat Trader stinks.

This website is very poorly designed. The only point of existence is to be a lead capture service with some passive income from people stupid enough to list their boats on here. The weakest part of the whole system is the fact that potential buyers don’t even have to leave a phone number to be contacted. That should be a requirement.