testimonials

Testimonials from advertisers of shares for sale, but in a nutshell shares sell too quickly on here!

What one advertiser wrote: - We have been absolutely delighted with the success of the advert. We advertised in a very well known narrowboating magazine at the same time: our payment for a few lines of text for one month was considerably more than your charge for a year. The response from that classified advert was poor whereas enquires from your site simply keep coming (which is why we have asked for you to mark it as sold). In fact two shares came up at the same time and both were sold through your site (and none through the magazine). So keep up the good work! We will be buying another share in a year or two and will be back to your site then - obviously, the only way to buy and sell shares! You are very welcome to use any or all of this e-mail as an unsolicited testimonial if you wish. We are very satisfied customers of an excellent enterprise - thank you.

What one advertiser wrote: - Just to let you know that the advert for the sale of shares in M....... has borne fruit and I have now completed the sale of all three weeks to a chap from Pxxxxxxxx, who made contact as a result of finding the details on your website. Whilst waiting for him to complete the paperwork I also was contacted by another interested party making three enquiries in total.

A customer with a managed scheme wrote on a message board: - Possibly a small detail ............ I must tell everyone that I sold my share in Hxxxxxx through the Boatshare site. Just the way the cookie crumbled. I hope that we shall not be selling our "new" share for several years.

Another comment: - Well done on the website - a really good service. I will be adding you to the JustCanals.com links section as soon as the updated design is online.. so probably in a couple of weeks. Would you be interested in banner swapping? We recently sold our share through you (well my parents did) - the amount of calls we got was amazing - so once again well done and thank you

And another: - Just to advise you that I received several enquiries from my advertisement on your web site and sold my share in 'V*****' a couple of weeks ago and the transaction is now complete. Thank you very much for your help.

And another: - Thanks to your website my share in 'The TXXXXXXX' has now been sold. Please indicate such and remove it from the site asap.

First in 2007: - We have formed a group (pictured above) for the "un named boat" with contact address of kXXXXXold@hotmail.com We are now called GXXXX EXXXXX and we have had our founders meeting and we are just beginning our first season on the canals. Thank you so much for allowing us to use your site it has been excellent in getting us all together

And again in 2007: - Thanks to your excellent website my share (plus the other one from A+++ G+++++ ) has been sold to a chap living in Australia. How's that for worldwide market penetration. Perhaps you could leave it on the web or add "sold STC" for another week or so to enable cheques to clear etc. Once again many thanks.

March 2007: - L**** was sending you an email yesterday evening re this so mail's may have crossed. Happily we sold our share very recently, I have the cheque to post today - entirely due to your site. So, thanks again for all your help. GL

March 2007:- Thanks for the ad on your website but I have just sold Pinder Boat. All the best PR

March 2007:- I am pleased to say that I sold my share in R******* 24 Hours after it appeared on your website. Many thanks for such an efficient service and such an effective site. Please now remove the advert. Please use this speedy response to promote your site if you wish. Many Thanks P M

April 2007:- Just to let you know that we have sold our share in AXXXXXXXX thanks to the Boatshare website !

April 2007:- It has come to our attention that a share advertised on here, where the advert was due to expire in April, actually sold last September, but the vendor overlooked telling us. The sale WAS as a result of an advert on this site

May 2007:- (E-Mail coming in) Just to let you know we have sold the 2 March weeks we own on CXXXXXXXX. This leaves just our November week still to sell. Grateful if you could amend the webpage accordingly. (Answer- Will do - did my site do the trick??) Yes it did - within a couple of weeks we had sold the two weeks and have had a few enquiries re the November week.

June 2007:- Just to let you know in case no-one else has... The share advertised for sale on nb MXXXXX has now been sold. Another swift sale thanks to Boatshare ...

July 2007:- Just a quick note to let you know we have just sold the last of our weeks on the canal boat CXXXXXXX. Our ad can therefore be removed from your website. Thanks for all your help with this. We would be more than happy to recommend your website to others. (Three shares sold)

August 2007:- The available shares in MXXXXX have all now been sold. Your site has proved invaluable as a means of letting potential purchasers now about MXXXXXX. Fantastic! Thank you.

September 2007: - I am just writing to let you know that the share we advertised on your site for HXXXXXX has now been sold and to ask if you could either mark it as sold or remove it from the site. Although the sale was handled by our managing agents the advert on the Boatshare site generated a number of enquiries and the successful purchaser found out about the share through the Boatshare site, so thanks very much for your service!

October 2007: - Just to say thank but we have sold all shares and at present will not be doing another boatshare until end 2008/9 but will definitely come back to you and will not hesitate to recommend you and your service many thanks for your help over the last few months best wishes (They came back in 2008!)

November 2007:- I am very pleased to say that we sold Week 8 on DXXXXXX within a couple of days of our advert appearing on the Boatshare website. I was particularly surprised by this as the share in question was for a winter week when even the keenest boaters would rather be tucked up under the duvet! Just goes to show why you should use a service which targets the exact audience that meets your needs. I will be recommending the Boatshare site to any of our owners who decide to sell their shares in the future.

December (25th!!) 2007:- We are delighted to let you know that , through your website, we have been able to sell two of the four weeks we own in K****. Would it be possible to update the advert by making the following changes, please......

March 2008 As soon as convenient, would you please delete our advert for selling our two-week share on n/b K*****. Once again, your website has been the means of easily putting buyers in touch with us, and we have now sold these shares.
Thanks for all your assistance.

April 2008 Thanks to your excellent website the three weeks currently advertised on it have been sold this week and the money received - always the most important point.

June 2008 (An exchange of e-mails after I reminded the customer the advert was about to expire) Shares all sold, thanks Thanks - out of interest do you know if it was my site that did it...?? Yes, we had several leads from your site and those who bought shares all came from your site.

July 2008 This is just to let you know that the share I had on offer for F******* has been sold. Many thanks to you for all your hard work in running an excellent website - the advert led to 6 enquiries.

September 2008 Another success story - Just to let you know that the share in D****** has been sold

October 2008 The share in BXXXXX is sold stc. The contact came through your website not from [Managing Agents], so that's one up for you!

November 2008 .....Should have let you know we sold it about six weeks ago through our advert on your website.

November 2008 Hello Philip, just to let you know that we have now sold our share in D@@@@@ and so need to remove the ad from the site. Had several enquiries including one from Australia so your site goes worldwide. We sold to someone who replied the day after the ad was published. Many thanks for all your help. Kind regards, J+++++ and J++++.

February 2009 Hello Philip, D++++++ for Weeks 29 & 30 have now been sold. Please remove from the website.
Thank you for your help and assistance. Didn’t advertise anywhere else so this sale is a direct result of your website.
Thanks R++++++

March 2009 Can you pull my advert please. I think it went live on the Thursday the 5th (2 emails the same day) viewing was Sunday. Sale agreed Wednesday only because I was out the country for Monday and Tuesday, and the money was in my account last Thursday! A record huh? Thanks for all your help in getting the advert just right. Regards D+++

May 2009 Hi, I'm pleased to say that once again your site has done the trick - I've just sold my two weeks on XXX XXXXX as a result of advertising on your site. Can you therefore take my entry off the site. With thanks and best wishes BK.

May 2009 Your website works a treat, because we've now sold our shares. We had quite a flurry of interest, but the first person who contacted us saw her on Saturday and made a firm offer. So, would you please remove our ad. from the site now? Definitely a most efficient service. Many thanks Regards C.

June 2009 As at the end of next week, we should have sold our boat share. We are just waiting for the cheque to go through. Could you please take the advertisement off your board at the end of this month. Many thanks for your advice in placing the ad. I have recommended your site to the rest of our syndicate on the boat. I note that BXXX have not sold any of their MS shares for sale. So you are definitely beating your competitors!
All the best J C

June 2009 Dear Philip, my sale was a direct result of an enquiry via your website. Although my advert did not generate the interest I might have hoped for I think this was more to do with current market conditions. I think the website is excellent. I have recommended it to others.

June 2009 I have now sold my share in XXXXXX to an excellent couple who I am sure will fit in with the present owners very well. Please will you remove the advert from your website? Thanks for all your help and for running such an excellent and efficient website. If you ever need anyone to strongly advocate the website, please call on me.

June 2009. Hi Phil – can you remove the SXXXXX share from the list please. We have had confirmation from (managing agents) that it has now sold – We had about 6 enquiries from the site and thought we had sold it on two previous occasions but they changed their minds (don’t know why) before this third person went ‘all the way’. Thanks for your help – We definitely sold the share from the link on your site and not via (Managing Agents). J and L W

July 2009. Hello Philip. Thanks to your website our share in our Dutch Barge XXXXX is now in the hands of a new owner. Thank you. I shall certainly recommend the site to others. Please would you now be kind enough to remove the page http:xxx Thank you again and best regards. Simon

July 2009 Hello Philip, Great News, at last we have sold our share in LXXXXXX, so many thanks to you and your website. We have had quite a few inquiries via your site, so it was lovely to finally get a sale through it also. Would you kindly arrange to remove the ad for us. Thanks again, Kindest Regards John

August 2009 Delighted to let you know that have successfully sold our share thanks entirely to your Boatshare site There is another share in MXXXXXX coming on the market very shortly and from a conversation with the owner this a.m I believe they will be contacting Boatshare very shortly (they did, see October)

August 2009 I asked the new guy how he found it and he said boatshare, thanks a lot

August 2009 Yes, it did.....all of the enquiries we received, were as a result of the details being advertised on boatshare........

October 2009 ....yes, via your site, although there was really little interest and the best price we could get was XXXXX. However the enquiries we did have came from boatshare. I think 70 footers must have a limited market.

October 2009 (In answer to the question did your share sell in MXXXXX from your advert on boatshare) I'm pretty sure it did, as my purchaser had no other connection to anyone else in the syndicate. There were 4 other enquirers, too.

October 2009 A magnificent response from your website, and my share is sold. Could you remove my details. I believe that one other is interested in selling their share, I'll recommend your site.

November 2009: Thank you very much we have just sealed the deal for the transfer of a share in M SXXXXX would you now mark this advert as sold. For us your site was excellent and we would recommend it to anyone wishing to transfer shares in boats

January 2010: for info - to date, the ad has generated a number of enquiries and 2 couples are viewing this weekend. This shows how popular your site has become!

February 2010: I'm pleased to tell you that I've sold three weeks of my five-week slot through your advert.......

February 2010: We received a number of enquiries fairly soon after the posting and 2 potential buyers viewed DXXXXXXX. One had travelled from Scotland (they did have a daughter near London) and they agreed to buy the share there and then (they even asked if we were happy that the price was enough ... gazumping!) we accepted a cheque for 50% on the day and the balance arrived within 7 days. Very happy to recommend Boatshare

March 2010 Your site was invaluable, we sold it through that. We will certainly be recommending you.

April 2010 Your site has been very successful and I have had a lot of replies. A sale has been agreed and we are just about ready for transferring the money. Many thanks for your help and I will recommend your site.

April 2010 Many thanks for your help with the sale I had a steady stream of genuine interest culminating in the sale of both shares to a couple in Australia. I have recommended your site to a number of people.

April 2010 With thanks to you the shares in XXXXXX are now sold, many thanks for your fine service and website

May 2010 Thanks for your help. I am sure that the buyer must have used your site, she had absolutely no connection with any of the other owners.

May 2010 The buyer saw the advert in the first week and was keen enough to visit the boat a few days later and agree a price (slightly less than advertised). Since then 2 more people have enquired. I think the site is very good in layout and operation. Thanks again

June 2010 Hi, please could you remove the listing for the TXXX, it has sold like the proverbial hot cake!

June 2010 ....Yes, it was a result of the advert on your site. So another successful result!

June 2010 Will you please remove the advert for my last week on RXXXXX. This one was sold to the mother of the guy who bought one of the other weeks, so 4 of my 5 weeks has been sold directly or indirectly through your page (the 5th week was sold to one of the fellow owners). Actually I have no idea about how I should have sold the if it was not for you. Thank you very much for your help and good luck with your page in the future. Best regards Susanne, Sweden.

June 2010 Guess what - KXXXXXXXX share sold 6.6.2010 - Couldn't let you know earlier as we were in England without access to internet, also on the boat. Nice couple, they have had a boat before - also had about four other requests, two of which came after the sale and we were overseas. Cheque still has to go to the bank later today so don't put the sold sticker on it until it is cleared - but hopefully all should go ok - will let you know. Thanks for your helpful service.

July 2010 Just a quick note to let you know that we have got a provisional sale of our HXXXXXXX share as an immediate result of your excellent e-mail. We are awaiting the cheque to arrive (and clear) and will advise you when this happens.

The chap rang us last night and was very keen to buy the share before he jetted off to Corfu at 3.00 am this morning!! Needless to say it has generated much interest. Many, many thanks for your efforts on our behalf. We will strongly recommend your site to others. We had well over a dozen enquiries.

July 2010 Yes, my daughter did the trick as did your web site (at least I think it did as I had several enquiries both from your web site and towpath talk).

July 2010 .......sold via boatshare web site.

September 2010 We had 10 people enquiring about SXXXXXX, all directed from your site. The couple who bought her, found the advert on you site too.

September 2010 Thank you very much for all your help. We have been delighted with the response to our advert on your site and believe that we have now sold the share (the cheque has just gone into the bank). Would you be kind enough to remove XXXXX from your shares for sale.

September 2010 We have sold our share in SXXXXX, cheque received and in the bank
today! This makes it under a month from start to finish, amazing. Is this a record? Many thanks for all your help and advice - we recommend you to anyone we hear who is thinking of selling and will continue to do so.

September 2010 The advert seems to have worked exceedingly well - we have now sold the share! (Less than a week after it appeared (BS))

September 2010 Placed an advert to sell our share in NB K++++++ with boatshare on 21st August 2010. Less than 4 weeks later, after strong website traffic and a number of enquiries a buyer has been found and the sale concluded. A fantastic website for narrow boat buyers and sellers.

September 2010 Thank you for your help in setting up our advert on your site. This is to say that we have sold our share and so the advert can now be removed! Many thanks.

October 2010 We cannot praise your excellent site highly enough. Very professional and helpful from start to finish. What a result. Both shares sold within 24 hours of advertising. We shall certainly recommend you to anyone wishing to sell or buy a share in a narrow boat. Our grateful thanks for all your help.

October 2010 Just to let you know that, as the result of the advert in Boatshare, I have now completed the sale of my 1/6th share in IXXXX. The advert resulted in 6 or 7 serious enquiries, some from abroad. Thank you for running a very helpful and professional advertisement site for a very reasonable price. Please use this as a testimonial and I would have no hesitation in recommending Boatshare to any potential seller.

October 2010 Another satisfied customer. We have recently completed the purchase of a share in "AXXXX" and expect to use her for the first time next spring. Your service has been most helpful and we will certainly get back to you when our turn comes to sell. In the meantime, please remove us from your mailing list.

October 2010 Thanks to your site B++++ share successfully sold. There may be another share for sale early in the new year but owner will make contact if required. Thanks again.

October 2010 We only advertised our share in W+++++ on your site and it produced a good response quickly, even from Canada! Thanks to the site we have sold our share. Thoroughly recommend the service.

October 2010 We have now sold our share in Axxxxxxx and thank you for all your help. I will have no problem recommending your website to others.

November 2010 Your site did the trick. In fact I started to get enquiries within hours of the advert going on line and agreed a sales a few days later. I have been away for the last month and the cheque for the balance has been sitting on the door mat. Cheque should be cleared by end of week so you can either leave advert up until then or you could take it off as long as I can have it back for free if, in the unlikely event, everything goes pear shaped. (Of course...BS)

November 2010 Please can you remove my advert for the share in CXXXX from your website as I have now sold it.
Thanks for your help your site worked a treat with around 5 enquires and the sale was easy due to the type of people who contacted me.

November 2010 I am emailing to let you know that the share in OXXXXXXX has been sold yesterday, only took two weeks which is absolutely brilliant. Thank you. Can you either tag the advert as sold or remove it. I will definitely use your website if I ever want another and have recommended it to other owners if the need arises in future.

December 2010 The share in KXXXXXXX is now sold. It only took 5 weeks to find our buyer! There was a fair deal of positive interest from the start, we only advertised on your site and ExOS. Although a ‘school share’ was never possible we managed to arrange special share status for our American buyers who require 3 consecutive weeks every year in Spring or Autumn.

February 2011 Just to let you know that we have now sold the share in KXXXX. Thank you very much for all your help and support. We didn't advertise anywhere else and have sold to an
overseas buyer who wouldn't have found us without your help. Thanks again.

March 2011 Hi could you please remove the XXXXX share as it has now been sold / yes it was your site.

March 2011 Thanks to your web site we have sold our fifth share. Contracts and money were exchanged over the weekend. Therefore can you remove details of XXXXXX's share please?

March 2011 I am pleased to report that with you help the 4 week share (of total 6 weeks) has now been sold. We would be very grateful if the details of the advert could now be amended to.......

March 2011 You have done it! The share in NB XXX [listed as XXXXXX] has now been sold. Please remove from adverts.

March 2011 Can you mark the advertisement as 'deposit received' as I have accepted a deposit for the sale of my share in GXXXXXX. A good result thanks to your web site

March 2011 Hi Philip, Guess what? The share is sold!! Two enquiries came within the first couple of hours and the first guy bought it :) Thanks for all your help

April 2011 Another success for the Boatshare site. My share in Sxxxxxx has been sold at the full asking price just two weeks after the ad went live. I would therefore be grateful if you could remove the advertisement. Thanks very much for your help and support in developing the advert.

April 2011 Within a day of advertising with Boatshare I had three enquiries and sold the shares that same day. Excellent helpful service. Many thanks.

April 2011 Well, what a good day I had yesterday, I managed to sell one share! I met an couple who expressed an interest in buying a share in WXXXXX. We arranged to meet the boat at the end of the Welford Arm on the Grand Union and walked away an hour later holding a cheque! Well done to you and your great Boat Share site Philip.

April 2011 Thank you for putting our ad in the boatshare site. We had 3 serious replies and sold our share on he day the ad went in. Either a brilliant site or too low a price, or a mixture of both! Anyway, thanks very much. The monies have all been received, so it would be helpful if you could remove the ad now, please.

April 2011 After only two weeks advertising on the boatshare web site, I was able to secure the sale of my share in my narrow boat at an agreed price. The sale was achieved solely through this advertisement as the share was not promoted elsewhere.

April 2011 ....by the way we sold a share so there is only one share left and I did not advertise any were else not even your suggested ones......

April 2011 Further to our text messages of yesterday - yes, our share of AXXXXX has sold thanks to Boatshare! Our purchaser received the key on Saturday, so the transaction is now complete. We were first contacted by the purchaser two weeks ago, and we managed to arrange for the owner who was on board at the time to show him around a few days later, and following that our purchaser offered the full asking price for our share!

We had 3 serious enquiries via your website (but none at all via (managers), who we were also advertising our share with) - the first liked the boat but wanted to pay £2000 less, the second liked her but didn't like our choice of holiday weeks (!), and the third was our purchaser.

Quotation from our purchaser: 'We found the details posted on the boatshare website very useful, detailed and giving a feel for what it would be like to be part-owner. For us, the depth of information was more useful than that on (Managers) website'.

As you know, I have been telling everyone about your website, and now there is another share of the same boat up for sale with you. I believe that there is another share which is likely to be advertised with you soon too. We shall keep spreading the word!

Many many thanks for all that you did to help us sell our share. Although we are gutted to have parted with our share, it is worth it to have an easier life with our teenagers! Boatshare made the process of selling so much easier, and we shall use it again when, hopefully in only a few years time, we are looking to buy a share of another boat (when we don't have to take our offspring on board with us).

April 2011 We took out a featured ad on Boatshare.co .uk and we have received the funds for the sale of our 12th share in Cheddington and you can now remove the ad from your pages. We placed ads on several websites but had the most enquiries and a subsequent sale from the ad on your site, thanks for your help in the final touches to our ad which we are sure helped the successful sale of our 1/12th share in Cheddington.

May 2011 Unbelievable. Within two days of putting my ad on your website I'd had two serious enquiries which resulted in the sale of the share and the cash in the bank within ten days! Brilliantly constructed ad from the info I gave and very reasonable, just try putting a small classified ad in one of the waterway mags. if you don't believe me! I am quite happy for you to allow customers to contact me to verify this. Once again, many thanks.

June 2011 Thanks to you, I have now sold my share of SXXXXXX. I had quite a lot of interest and am pleased to have sold it so quickly. Please could you remove the advert now? Thanks again for such a good service.

July 2011 The sale came from from your website, he was looking for a boat to rent & found your site. I had about 20 enquiries from your site & the combination of your site & the (boats own) web site did the job. My buyer did not need to see the boat to decide to buy, all the information was on the web sites.

August 2011 .....all four contacts came through your site, and I would recommend it anyone

August 2011 To let you know that through your site, I have sold all three weeks of my shares on CXXXXXX. Please now remove this advert.

August 2011 Thank you for the service you have provided. The 1/6th share in Narrowboat 'RXXXXX' has now been sold so the advert can be taken down. They did learn about it from your advert - it wasn't advertised anywhere else

August 2011 Just to let you know, we sold [the above share] through your website last week. It all went very smoothly and, have to say, we sold far quicker than we imagined as we only put it on at the end of April.

August 2011 Hi Philip, can you take down the ad for the barge please. The share was sold within 2 days of going live! Thanks for your help, Rod.

August 2011 Good afternoon Philip, this is just a quick email to say we have, through your site, sold our share in SXXXXX. Could you therefore delete it from the list of those that are “For Sale”. Thanks for all your help.

September 2011 Good Morning, Phil! Please note all shares in OXXXXXX are now sold. It may interest you to know that in spite of being advertised in several formats with different organizations, both shares were sold via the first interest being awakened by your ads on the Boatshare site. Moral of the story, don't bother with anyone else, just have a chat with Phil! Best Wishes & Many Thanks Gerry

September 2011 The share for sale in Sxxxxx has been sold. Would you please remove the advert thank you. (do you know if it was as a result of your advert on my site? ) Yes Philip, it was, thank you very much!

September 2011 I am pleased to say that we have now sold both our shares in CXXXX, so the advert can be removed from Boatshare.com. We are very grateful for your help with this, especially as I believe one of the buyers came to us having seen only the Boatshare ad.

September 2011 I have today received payment in full from CXXXX for the purchase of our 1/12th share in OXXXX. Thank you very much for your help in this sale.

October 2011 The boat has been sold: we are not at home and have received our first emails for a month today via the library in E Yorks. We shall highly recommend your website to others who may need a similar service.

October 2011 Just to let you know that we have SOLD our share in the Dutch barge "DXXXXXXXX". Please could you take it off the Website in "Barge shares for sale in France". A great deal of interest and the new owner is very happy. Many thanks for all your help.

October 2011. "....yes they are both sold....your site sold them....." (Two shares, part of an exchange by text!)

October 2011. I am happy to inform you we have sold our share, subject to contract and getting the money...But it's a previous Ownerships person buying....Returning to shared ownership. So if you could put a banner across our advert SSTC, it would be appreciated. We had Two visits Sunday before last and another enquiry on the answer machine when we got home... Who said money was tight...

November 2011. Would you please remove our listing for XXXXX from your website as we have managed to sell our share? We were very pleased with the response and only wished we had contacted you earlier - we must have received nine enquiries...

December 2011. ......he saw it on your site, recognised it of course, and then suggested to me another site to put it on. I didn't do that, and eventually he came back and said he'd like to buy the share himself.

December 2011. I'm happy to advise you that we have now sold our share through your Boatshare site.
Thanks for your help

January 2012 Thank you very much for continuing to run such a successful site. I have now sold my one week share in RXXXXXX for the asking price and am delighted that it sold so quickly - thanks to boatshare.co.uk. The purchaser is a former owner of his own narrow boat, and obviously knew where to look for a share in another. Would you now kindly remove my advertisement.

January 2012 I'm pleased to tell you that our share in Fxxxxx has sold. Off to the pub!

January 2012 Can you remove Mxxxxx from your list please? The share is now sold (I asked "Did my web site do the trick?) Yes, I think so. I believe another shareholder might approach you soon.

February 2012 Hi, Share successfully sold. I got two enquiries direct from your advert, and one fifty/fifty with the boat website as they also checked yours. First contact bought. Good service, very impressed. Many Thanks

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