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Old 10-09-2019, 06:10 PM   #21
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Just sent them a rude message assessing the likelihood that I will be using their service in the future.
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Old 10-09-2019, 07:18 PM   #22
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The advanced link to the .com site is now redirecting to all listings. The .co.uk link above still works. Annoying.
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Old 10-11-2019, 02:48 PM   #23
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Well I'm sure glad I'm not the only addicted boat porn guy around. The kids call my boat and car looking dad's porn many years ago.
As for Yachtworld the new version sucks. Perfect example of something that works so let's improve it. The comments are right on we the people who search for boats are just not important.

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Old 10-11-2019, 05:09 PM   #24
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If you think Yachtworld Treats the Boating Viewers bad then...

If you think YachtWorld treats the boating viewers badly, you should be on the profesional side, BoatWizard. In the past 2 years there have been over 12 price increases to the "members" that list the boats on their site! (Some have been in the form of reducing services: less service, same price. They say that is NOT a price increase! Besides a basic "membership" for 10 boats they are now charging for the size of the vessel and price! I guess it costs more to show a higher price vessel! They are also claiming the "rights and ownership" to all of the pictures videos and information we post on the site. They also resell any and all of the lead information when a you send an email the and the phone calls are recorded.They are driving the smaller firms out of business with their predatory pricing. There is also suspicion in the industry they are sharing the information with larger firms. Also notice the difference to the European Market as the search defaults are "meters, liters' and Euros.
The CYBA (California Yacht Brokers Association) has had meeting with them and a senior representative from their company said they do not care and will keep raising prices as high as they can.
More of the California firms are now migrating to their organization controlled sitehttps://www.yatco.com/ "YATCO.COM" where there is no ads, data mining or reselling of your information.
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Old 10-11-2019, 06:05 PM   #25
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I sent YW two notes - not one response. What used to take minutes, now takes many more minutes - too many in fact. We're looking for a bot, but we're not shopping for a boat. If one comes along, we're ready to sniff but now with this "new and improved" feature, sniffing is a lot harder.

Brokers - if you care, let YW know the BUYING customer base is not happy and that you're not getting as much value for your money..
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Old 10-11-2019, 08:45 PM   #26
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Someone said the English version of the Advanced Search still works, I just used it ok. I can’t understand how they can screw it up this much. Why don’t the brokers burn up their phone lines? Eventually they will screw up the English version and then it will be useless. What will I do for my boat porn???
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Old 10-12-2019, 12:02 AM   #27
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The executives of "BOATS GROUP" ( YachtWorld, Boattrader, Boats.com and a few others) have clearly stated publicly in meetings with the broker organizations "WE REALLY DON'T CARE About the brokers, that pay for the site". So if they don't care for or listen to those that pay to keep their site up, why would they care about those that view it? They seem to forget that we generate the content that they sell the ads on. The trend now is for brokers to move all of their listing over to the YATCO site.
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Old 10-12-2019, 12:38 AM   #28
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I looked at Yatco. Looks ok, maybe. It will take a bit of getting used to and all the listings aren’t there yet. Hopefully brokers will transition so it will get better with feedback.
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Old 10-12-2019, 01:19 AM   #29
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I have tried several searches on Yatco. Not a very user friendly search. As far as I can tell you can’t select multiple locations or multiple types of boats and you have to do a search before it will let you refine a search, similar to Advanced Search on Yachtworld. I went to their feedback page and typed in about 15 minutes of typing, I am not a fast typer, and it wanted me to verify that I am not a robot. Did that and the check box checked good, then it said I didn’t do the robot and the page locked up... Maybe they really don’t want feedback after all. Although it does say they want feedback. Maybe someone else will have better luck with it.
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Maybe even though the site said that my feedback didn’t go through it actually did. I got a reply this morning that they were looking at implementing some of the suggestions that I sent in. Suggest that everyone give them feedback about getting an Advanced Search similar to Yachtworld. If Yatco is going to be the new go to site for boat porn then we need a much better search function. At least they responded overnight even on a Saturday.
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Old 10-27-2019, 02:24 PM   #31
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Hi all,

I think the advanced search still exists on Yacht World, or at least exists again -- I think it just moved. After doing the initial search, scroll down the list of filters and filter groups on the left side. You'll see "Advanced filters". Then hit the down arrow to expand it.

Between the regular and advanced filters, it looks like I can search with the same parameters I always could. I just have to do a less specific search on the home page first, before dialing it in.

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Last time I looked you could select one nation or one state, no regions, which was an important filter. Have they fixed that? Very user-hostile interface.
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Old 10-27-2019, 04:52 PM   #33
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Last time I looked you could select one nation or one state, no regions, which was an important filter. Have they fixed that? Very user-hostile interface.
Yes, they have fixed that. Actually a user friendly interface now. You drill down in the menu.
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Old 10-27-2019, 04:55 PM   #34
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Last time I looked you could select one nation or one state, no regions, which was an important filter. Have they fixed that? Very user-hostile interface.
One can select only one location category, which exist at various levels (continent, nation, state, region/city of state, etc). But, there aren't selections such as "US Gulf of Mexico", or "US Atlantic", nor is there the ability to select multiple.

Also, displayed options are limited to those with non-empty results given the other search parameters. So, if one wants to refresh the search later, one probably wants to set the location first. And, even then, it is a moving target as I don't think locations without boats for sale will appear.

I agree, it isn't very well done. Not at all.

As an aside, I just noticed advanced search is available under the "Boats" menu. But, again, same limitations.

The absence of a multi-select is baffling.
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Old 10-27-2019, 04:57 PM   #35
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It’s not easy, but the UK Advanced Search still works - and you can modify the url to remove the currency option to get USD. So if you had a favorite search you forgot to bookmark you can recreate it.
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Old 01-08-2020, 11:29 AM   #36
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Still griping! Had a reason to go on Yachtworld this morning and gave up in frustration. Clearly the number of "hits" (do people still say this?) has to be way down. My once a day visit is now non-existent. Wouldn't there be someone in the marketing department that finds this concerning?
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I suspect it is going to take a customer revolt by the brokers who subscribe to Yachtworld to make any difference. Unfortunately the internet has changed how boats are sold. When I was a broker for a short while in Annapolis 20 years ago, customers came to the brokerage and asked a broker to search for a boat that fit their needs. So the broker spent a lot of his time plugging in data and developing lists of boats that fit.

No more. Buyers search Yachtworld, Boattrader, etc. themselves and then call up the listing broker to ask more about it and see it if they are interested. But buyers don't directly pay for Yachtworld, brokers do. We need to get this feedback to brokers who can more effectively complain about how Yachtworld has made a mess out of the search process.

Good luck with that. Maybe one of our member brokers can take this up with YBAA (Yacht Brokers Association of America which is independent of Yachtworld) to mobilize the complaints.

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Like others have recommended, I went through YB of Great Brittan and was able to access more advanced search features similar to what I used to get in YB US.
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Like others have recommended, I went through YB of Great Brittan and was able to access more advanced search features similar to what I used to get in YB US.
Yup, still woking there as before.
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