Boat prices and boat's still out there.

So I was wondering if I paid to much for my 22 foot hardtop aluminum Raider with a triler, trolling motor, and fishfinder. Then I clicked on a Starcraft Fishmaster 21 foot, and a Crestliner Commander 18.5 footer, and did the build my boat deal, and just about passed out. Gosh I got off lucky.

So I looked at how healthy the boat ownership industry was. USCG post a compairson of 2010-vs 2009. [url]http://www.uscgboating.org/assets/1/workflow_staging/Page/2010_Recreational_Boating_Statistics.pdf[/url]

Overall, 33 states had boat registrations decline, and 17 increase 2010-2009.

KY ranks 26th of 50 stest with over 175000 boats registerd, but declined between years by only 672 boats.

Grand total US registerd boats went from 2010 with 12,364,207 down from 12,650,712 in 2009. That means
286,505 boats came out of use.

So what do yay think? Gas is up, economy is down, real estate is killing us, car prices are no help especially to buy a truck to pull a boat. Ya think all that is finally putting a big dent in boat ownership ? Given all that, are the boat makers grabbing as much as they can before they die off, or are they just selling at a price they need to to survive when fewer boat sales, means they have to make more per boat to keep the lights at the factory lit?

I'm no economist, but to me this is a good example of the "myth" of supply and demand. The way it's supposed to work is as demand goes down, price goes down.

Instead, what we see is that corporations are run by greed and they are always going to get absolutely the last penny they can out of their product.

[QUOTE=jastew;497542]I'm no economist, but to me this is a good example of the "myth" of supply and demand. The way it's supposed to work is as demand goes down, price goes down.

Instead, what we see is that corporations are run by greed and they are always going to get absolutely the last penny they can out of their product.[/QUOTE]

There is a fine line there.........if there are not enough products being sold to support the business, eventually you cannot build it for what you NEED to charge, and you go belly up.

Lots of companies are dealing with that very issue.

[QUOTE=jastew;497542]I'm no economist, but to me this is a good example of the "myth" of supply and demand. The way it's supposed to work is as demand goes down, price goes down.

Instead, what we see is that corporations are run by greed and they are always going to get absolutely the last penny they can out of their product.[/QUOTE]that might sound neat to you, but its also a good way to go in the hole...