Wondering if anyone has been moving boards through buy and sell section of forum, and where else people advertise.
Only ask as Ive had a brand new (all Ive done with it is remove the packing) latest model, major brand ,way below what it would retail at ,for around a month without sparking a single response.
If I take it for a paddle it could well end in divorce and the longer it sits here the more tempted I get

Gumtree and fb are pretty good,what board?what price

Got It all over facebook.
8 .0 Naish ,I dont wonder if the local blokes have started to make a big impact on the big guys as far as surf sups go.
This model apparently is not going to retailers.

Its a buyers market for sure. Shops do some amazing prices on old stock. At times you can buy the same board new with warranty cheaper than what some people are asking secondhand.
I've taken many a severe hair cut when selling boards, still better than having boards hanging around not being used. The money lost registers way less on the domestic peace ledger than a shed full of unused boards.

My advice is to advertise on the most popular generic classified site of your country, in France we use "Le bon coin", a kind of craiglist. SUP forums reach only a tiny part of the potential buyers.

What I do is advertise on my local SUP forums first, and I advertise on the generic one only if no answer 2 weeks afterwards, raising the price by 10%. I raise the price because of the added trouble (people on SUP forum are safer, they have some reputation at stake, a and they know what they want), and people on general forums will systematically negociate the price, so I start with a higher price. Generally if will sell much faster on the generic ones.

And as GRS says, dont be greedy. As a seller, you are in competition with new boards, that can be on sale, with a warranty, and are much cheaper to ship by a shop than by you. And try to get in the shoes of the buyer: SUP boards can have a lot of hidden defects: water entry, bad repairs, structural weakness by exposure to summer sun, ... buying second hand is risky, you cannot expect people to pay close to the list price. I usually list them at half the price if they are in good condition (no water entry).

I counted recently, I bought 46 boards, and have resold 37 already :-)
I think I shipped only 2 of them, but I do not ship them anymore, too much of a hassle. The buyers are not aware of the time and cost of finding the packing materials, packing, and shipping for a non-pro, and do not want to pay for it. Plus transport damage issues can get ugly fast.

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colas said..
My advice is to advertise on the most popular generic classified site of your country, in France we use "Le bon coin", a kind of craiglist. SUP forums reach only a tiny part of the potential buyers.

What I do is advertise on my local SUP forums first, and I advertise on the generic one only if no answer 2 weeks afterwards, raising the price by 10%. I raise the price because of the added trouble (people on SUP forum are safer, they have some reputation at stake, a and they know what they want), and people on general forums will systematically negociate the price, so I start with a higher price. Generally if will sell much faster on the generic ones.

And as GRS says, dont be greedy. As a seller, you are in competition with new boards, that can be on sale, with a warranty, and are much cheaper to ship by a shop than by you. And try to get in the shoes of the buyer: SUP boards can have a lot of hidden defects: water entry, bad repairs, structural weakness by exposure to summer sun, ... buying second hand is risky, you cannot expect people to pay close to the list price. I usually list them at half the price if they are in good condition (no water entry).

I counted recently, I bought 46 boards, and have resold 37 already :-)
I think I shipped only 2 of them, but I do not ship them anymore, too much of a hassle. The buyers are not aware of the time and cost of finding the packing materials, packing, and shipping for a non-pro, and do not want to pay for it. Plus transport damage issues can get ugly fast.

Do you really eat frogs legs and snails?

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quikdrawMcgraw said..
Do you really eat frogs legs and snails?

Of course! I must say I prefer frog legs to snails, however. I still have some yuck factor eating snails, but have no problem eating marine snails.
If you think about it, it is not very different from eating other invertebrates, such as shells, squids, jellyfishes.
And Honey is just bee puke, Eggs comes from hens *ssholes, etc...