Boat TraderReviews of boattrader.com

This website does not provide "Date Listed" information and allow dealers to continue listing inventory that was sold months ago allowing them to attempt bait-and-switch operations.

I sold several boats over the years. Advertise most of them on different platforms like portrayer and lately Facebook. Each ad was boat trader a short lives and expensive. And all this time I’ve never been able to sell one single boat on this platform. Yet I’ve spent Hundreds and hundreds of dollars with each attempt stick with Facebook. It’s free you get more exposure and you sell your boat.

Is not clear how they charge you auto renewal , you write them and they don't answer or answer that your email doesn't exist in their system , don't use this to ad your boat

Do not place an add on Boat Trader. Use FB Market place or a local reseller. Boat Trader did not provide one interested buyer. Additionally, they have an auto renewal fine print that you have to catch, or you will be stuck on auto renewal until you identify the charge.

Do not place an ad in Boat Trader. The only response we received was scammers trying to sell us a hull check. You forward the email to the fraud department, and they acknowledge the email and no further response from them. We should have read reviews before spending $199.00. Then they automatically renewed the ad. They said that when you place the ad it automatic the renewal. There are a lot of websites that are free (Boat US).

We posted our boat on this site and the only result from the posting was contact from people trying to sell us hull check services. It was a complete waste of money. The boat was priced to sell, we got no local or state wide inquiries in 10 days of listing it and had paid extra to upload more pictures.

Boat Trader is a shell for scams. I was on it a short while and I ONLY received interests from scams. Seems like it is a shell for deception. I paid $199 for 12 weeks for the privilege of being a mark for the professional scammers. What is boat trader doing about that?? NOTHING. They don’t care Save yourselves the $ and torture. Post your boat anywhere but NOT on boat trader M

I advertised my boat on Boat Trader and got very few hits. The majority of the inquiries that I got turned out to be from scammers. I had much better results advertising on Facebook marketplace, which did not cost me anything. I would definitely recommend Facebook marketplace over Boat Trader.