The Sleuth is in the house!
Ain't the world an interesting place, and aren't people (or maybe just boat, and car, and every other type of retailer) just the sleeziest bunch of lying crap ever. I went down to the Executive Boat and Yacht Brokerage (actaully just a dirt parking lot with a small building and a bunch of used boats - very reminiscent of a low end used car dealership) to check out the sadly stripped and reassembled by POS Toyota S-22. Executive Boat is a consignment shop and didn't tell me where the S-22 came from; however, I looked at it inside and out and it is the famed stripped Toyota. Its a little less stripped than the last time I saw it because all the parts are attached now (or at least they seemed to be). They had a mismatched blue bow cover on it with a black cockpit cover. It was cleaned up as well as could be, but it still is what it is.
Anyway, I pretended to be there to see this sweet little Malibu on the lot but just "noticed" the Toyota. The guy said it was a "great" boat, but knew almost nothing about it when I asked questions. He did tell me it had a Toyota engine and that if I pushed it the owner would probably come down a couple thousand on the price. He said he also had a "yellow Toyota" for sale for like 37K, but it wasn't on the lot. He said the yellow one is "in much better shape."
The guy also told me that he had a 23 foot Tige that had just come in as a bank repo and was a super bargain at about 29K. This was the boat he really wanted to sell me. He told me that, like the Toyota, it had a Lexus "Scorpion" engine in it (what a load of crap) and "that system, I can't remember what its called, that pumps water in and adds weight to the boat for a bigger wake." Can you believe it. A boat salesman that doesn't even know what Perfect Pass is.
In the end, all I've got to say is, stay away from the EOS POS, the stripped toyota they are trying to get someone else to sell for them, and Executive Boat and Yacht. Is anyone honest out there?
