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  • Catalina 30’ sailboat MKIII ‘97

    Had 13 inquiries, three of which were scams and three serious. Prior to listing with BT, I advertised in two local newspapers with zero inquiries! In this day and age with newspaper circulation way down, BT is the best way to go. Thanks for your help. CJR. PS: The Scammers are really creative and almost believable!
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  • Great app been looking for a ship to buy and live on for about 2 years now.

    I will find a ship eventually and if I find it on this app all the more, find-e it will be. I like the pics and prices and stats. Building knowledge off what’s available on the app has been fun.
  • Good but Not Optimized for iPad

    The app itself is good and boat trader is certainly the place to be looking for boats. However, when I use it on my iPad to see pictures bigger, it is shrunk to the phone size. If I select stretch to screen there are still big black margins on each side.
  • Total joke

    I bought a package and listed my boat. 2-3 inquiries a day asking if I would take a cashier check and provide bank info etc. how can they have so many scammers ??? The app has zero interface to my listing and I had to log in to the full site on my computer to edit or manage my ad. It’s a shame because clearly they could be a fantastic app and site based on their internet exposure. Got more real inquiries via local facebook ads and Craigslist.
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  • Unable to favorite boats when logged in.

    Had this issue for months: logged in but unable to save/“heart” boats that I like. I know this functionality exists because this feature worked earlier in the year. The last several months - it’s been broken.
  • Ads and then more ads

    All I’m trying to do is find a boat but this app keeps putting really poor quality useless ads in inconvenient spots while I’m trying to scroll through the boat ads. It’s like I’m getting double ads, one for the boat and one for the garbage app. I don’t understand why they need to place ads in the corners and crevices of this app. the boat sellers are already paying to place ad. The app itself locks up on me and forces me to close it out. It’s just Poot quality all the way around that I’m forced to deal with during my boat search.
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  • Brokers 🙄

    How much money does a broker have to make to invest a bit into ending the glitches in this app?? I’m actually trying to buy a boat using this app. Will not remember remember my login credentials. Every boat that I saved and every search I saved has completely disappeared. Trying to view pictures are ridiculous. Pictures are low quality and trying to navigate a zoom picture may send me to the hospital. There is a strong backbone to this app but the brokers are going to have to come off their wallets.
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  • Bad on iPad, ads make it too slow

    The iPad experience is the zoom phone type, so it looks wonky. The ads on this app though make it almost unusable. Scrolling while ads are loading makes it register a click on the boat you aren’t wanting to look at. Clicking on a boat most times shows you the pictures of the previous boat you were looking at instead of the current one.

    May need to update the iPad side to get rid of the issues, but tone down the ads a bit too.
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  • Good App Needs A little Improvement to be Great

    This is a good app with the ability to search for a boat with the specific features you desire and near your location. The search works well like the website. The other part of the app that’s good is the ability to save a list of possible boats you’d like to purchase. I hid feature could use improvement. For some reason some boats can’t be saved. You click the heart on the listing and when you go to your favorites it’s not there. This is very frustrating as it leaves you to having to save these in your browser which defeats the point of the list which is having all your options in one place.
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  • Want to love the app! Persistent login requests though!

    I login through my Google account. I really really really want to love this app and give it five stars since I’m finding cool boats on here, but every two minutes (not an exaggeration) the app logs me out and requests for me to log back in. It’s pretty frustrating. Again, I want to love this app and would be more than happy to change this review to five stars if that one thing gets figured out. Not sure if other people are having this issue?
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