"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
02/01/2019 at 12:58 • Filed to: unnecessary boat shopping with functionoverfashion
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"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
02/01/2019 at 12:58 • Filed to: unnecessary boat shopping with functionoverfashion | 2
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The phenomenon of covering license plates, which I think is crazy anyway (in the US at least), is now spreading to boats, apparently.
First of all, just like a license plate, these are numbers that are visible to the public at all times. Allowing internet strangers to see your bow number could not possibly bring any harm to you or your boat.
While I’m at it, the pictures are crap, that boat isn’t that clean, doesn’t have low hours, and is the least desirable year for this hull among many years of production (~95-~06)
. Yeah, it’s got the bigger engine option, but then the transmission was recently replaced (why?
) and the interior was too. Fine, it’s got a nice new interior. But you know what that tells me? Abuse and neglect. You shouldn’t have to put a whole new interior in a 12 year old boat. My ‘03 is all original inside and in good shape;
not perfect.
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GLWS it’s January by the way.
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in excellent condition for $17,000 less.
HammerheadFistpunch
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 13:03 |
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I’ m so glad I’ m not boat shopping anymore.
Chariotoflove
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 13:06 |
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I know what he’s covering up. He’s trying to avoid Sci-fi autograph seekers.
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WilliamsSW
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 13:09 |
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Well, Google is now using OCR on images posted to the Internet. So you can Google my license plate, and trace me to Oppo at least, because I posted a picture of the back of my car.
Maybe not the end of the world but I find it a little disconcerting.
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functionoverfashion
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/01/2019 at 13:13 |
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oh, me too. I looked constantly for probably 10 years. Lots of those years I couldn’t really afford the boats I really wanted, so I just kept improving the one I had.
It turns out a neighbor also looked at the one I eventually bought. I would have died. It’s perfect, and was a rare combination of literally every option I would want - down to the colors - and less than a day’s drive from home, AND well maintained but not modified, either, which is especially rare. The guy I bought it from towed it to a ramp with a self-maintained 2006 Range Rover. If he could keep that thing running, he could handle the boat.
One reason I still look is just to remind myself how lucky I was to get the one I did. In the two, approaching three years since I bought it, not a single other one like it - year, options, price - has come up for sale within 500 miles. There are lots of them in Florida, Texas, California, etc. but none local.
I’ve also made friends with the neighbor and we ride together from time to time, behind my boat of course.
BigBlock440
> functionoverfashion
02/01/2019 at 13:17 |
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Allowing internet strangers to see your bow n umber could not possibly bring any harm to you or your boat.
Not boat or license plate numbers, but still...
https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your-life-1827546385
People are unhinged, maybe those other things in your ad sets someone off. It’s minimal effort to prevent something that could potentially ruin your life. Like putting on a seat belt, you’re unlikely to need it, but it could prevent something turning worse.
Like that 13 year old that got kidnapped and her parents killed, just because the guy saw her getting off the bus. Shit happens. Why does someone making minimal effort to prevent it make some people so irrationally mad?
T5Killer
> Chariotoflove
02/01/2019 at 13:17 |
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Bravo!
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functionoverfashion
> BigBlock440
02/01/2019 at 13:31 |
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I’m not mad, mostly confused as to why they make that effort, but then don’t clean out the glove box, don’t give a detailed history or description of the boat, and then over price it by about 50%.
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functionoverfashion
> WilliamsSW
02/01/2019 at 13:35 |
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*looking up street view of your house...*
(ok not doing that, just to be clear)
EngineerWithTools
> functionoverfashion
02/02/2019 at 22:32 |
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It was -25 degrees at home last week, before the windchill, so your boat posts are welcome reminders of summer.
Hey I have that trailer jack! It’s sitting in my garage unused because the trailer frame is too tall for a u-bolt install. I need to make a bolting plate and have it welded on... only been planning to do that for 4 summers now!
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functionoverfashion
> EngineerWithTools
02/04/2019 at 09:14 |
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That’s a pretty good design with the two wheels (a dually?) but the diameter is too small. Then again, you’re not supposed to be moving it far with that, so I guess that’s something. I prefer the ones with the flat plate base.
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BigBlock440
> functionoverfashion
02/06/2019 at 23:28 |
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I’m not in the boat market, so I can’t speak to the rest of it, but it’s just good practice to remove any identifies of
anything
going online (I subscribe to the Ron Swanson practice of internet security, somewhat)
. Every week I see a new example enforcing my beliefs.
I’m also
lazy (or time restricted?)
, so I understand the minimal effort as far as cleaning out stuff, but
putting a picture in paint to remove some numbers is minimal effort
. They also may not actually want to sell it.