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These guys aren’t as bad as they’re made out to be – in my opinion. I hope writing this will help them out because from what I am reading on the net they could use some positive word of mouth. I write lots of reviews and don’t mind being a devils advocate now and again. Anyway, it’s a bit long, but here’s my story.

I had gotten a call about two months ago from National Motor Sales asking if I wanted to sell my boat and that they could help me get my boat sold. I was really leery that it might be a scam and in fact hung up even though the young lady was really nice and polite. I then sent them a nasty email that went like this (my copy and paste below):

National Motor Sales:
Do not call me ever AGAIN! Remove me now xxx-xxx-xxxx!

XXXX

Yeah, I was mad as hell and I bet they got the picture. To their credit I never heard from them again, ha ha!

So after about two weeks or so I was getting pretty desperate. I had gotten calls from other places offering to sell the boat, but the girl at National Motor Sales was the one that stuck with me. I figured it might be worth a shot to call back and see what’s what. I got a hold of her and she went on to tell me that National Motor Sales does marketing, places ads on the net and all this other stuff. Since I was asking what I thought was a fair price for the boat I figured why not. I wasn’t getting any action in my town so maybe they could get me someone somewhere else. She was a good sales person, what can I say?

I placed the ad, sent some pictures, made some edits and waited. I waited some more. And I waited even longer. Man, I thought for sure National Motor Sales took the money and ran. That’s around the time I started doing searches on these guys and saw some of the stuff that’s been written. So I sent an email, got a reply back asking that I be a little patient and see how it goes for a moment. They also gave me a feature listing, but wasn’t really sure what that exactly is.

Anyway, after about 3 weeks the phone rang and it was a guy in Georgia (I’m in Texas). He saw the pictures and asked if I could send some specific shots. I did. He replied back and made an offer than was unacceptable. But I was happy I finally started getting calls. After two more weeks I had gotten 3 more calls and they were all pretty general in nature except one gentlemen in particular. He asked quite a few questions and he seemed sincere. Well, it turns out he was serious because he was in my backyard two days later checking out the Sea Ray. We struck a deal after about 4 hours and he’s the new proud owner of a damn fine boat.

After about a month and a half and a handful of calls I did get it sold and for a price that was at least at my expectations. Could they have gotten it sold sooner? Hell yes they could have, but it is sold and I’m happy with that. I figured sharing this here would do National Motor Sales a bit of justice.

Take Care