SELLING THROUGH IPBB

International Powerboat Brokerage has been set up by boat owners for boat owners who require a more comprehensive experience when selling and buying boats in the UK.  The senior management team comprises of blue chip business professionals.  Between them the team have bought and sold a large amount of boats for their private and business usage, all of the team have also suffered terrible experiences with both manufacturers and “Brokers”.. What became apparent through all of our sales and purchases was that manufacturers, although happy to list “brokerage”, will charge high commissions 6 – 10% (in most cases), and will ALWAYS try to sell either one of their stock boats or a new boat in preference to your “brokerage” listing.

You would expect Brokers to be a little more aggressive, but our personal experience has left us bitterly disappointed. We found that little or no information was passed to us, the client, especially with regards to how the boat was being marketed, nor the amount or standard of the enquiries. IPBB aims to change the buying and selling experience, we are boat owners and are passionate about the industry, this is the leisure industry and buying and selling your pride and joy should be fun and stress free.  We want to work for our commission and turn around sales in the minimum timeframe.  We will also commit to providing the client with the information they require to ensure a sale in both pre, current and post sales. IPBB will charge a fee which is based on the effort and cost which have been spent on achieving the sale of your vessel or if you prefer a fixed fee, The sale will be achieved using technology based products which give you, the client, maximum potential to sell your boat.

SALES STRUCTURE

Although a fixed brokerage fee can be arranged (Structure 1), sales are based on time, effort and cost spent on the listing.  IPBB will never charge more than 4% commission for a sale and the process will be monitored by both the senior management team and the client to ensure the commission is warranted.
Structure 2:

Sales of up to 1 month attract a straight 2% commission
Sales of 1-3 months attract 3% commission
Sales of 3-6 months attract 3.5% commission
6 months onwards attracts 4% fixed
The reason for this second structure is obvious, more time = more cost, (viewings and listing) required for us to list and sell your boat.
We will look after and report back on all aspects of any sale, from accompanied viewings, negotiations, through to sea trials, survey and handover. We will also assist to have your boat presented in the most marketable fashion. For your complete peace of mind, we are experts in all aspects of boat sales and purchasing including title documentation, registration and VAT.  Between the senior management team we have owned and understand every make of UK powerboat available on the market.
Brokerage is our business but we do carry stock boats.  When you list your boat with us, you can be assured that it has our undiluted attention and receives every possible effort of our brokers.  We are also happy to consider any part exchange and please do ask us about trading up.
We aim to be the leading brokerage company based in the UK.  We advertise in all major publications and will list your boat on the World's leading boat search web sites.  We also use a huge amount of technology and have Apple and Android apps, Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds which allow businessmen and buyers to keep abreast of our daily changes to listings, whilst completing their daily business.

Some of the publications and web based products we use to enhance sales are:

Motor Boat & Yachting Magazine	Rightboat.com	Twitter
Yachtworld.com	Boats.com	Facebook
Boatshop24.co.uk	Boatshop24.com	You Tube
TheYachtMarket.com	Jameslist.com	Blogging
Android App	Iphone app	RSS