19 minutes ago, JeffK said:

I agree with this. I'd also caution everyone to think long and hard about buying a boat at fire sale prices. It is going to hurt your local dealers and Malibu, which in turn hurts you too. I'd like to suggest in advance to the Admin's that we lock and trash all of the future threads bashing dealers and Malibu for lack of service and warranty support if you bought one this way. You knew what you were getting into. It has been said lots on here. This mess is just going to hurt everyone. 

Do Malibu dealers lose money on warranty work?   I don't understand this mentality that a dealership is going to deny warranty work because a boat wasn't bought there.   I get not prioritizing shop work that wasn't purchased there over existing/local customers, but can they just deny warranty work even though Malibu would authorize it?    What if you move after buying the boat to a different dealer's territory?   You're out of luck?   Why is purchasing considered a requirement to getting warranty work done at the same dealer?  I genuinely don't understand this line of thinking.   Sure, they don't want you buying from a different dealer to undercut them and then they are expected them to bend over backwards for you on the service side, but if they make money on warranty work, why do they care where you bought the boat?  

2 hours ago, ElleW said:

That said, if I had a boat at Tommy’s,  I would pull it.  Immediately.

I agree with this. I'd also caution everyone to think long and hard about buying a boat at fire sale prices. It is going to hurt your local dealers and Malibu, which in turn hurts you too. I'd like to suggest in advance to the Admin's that we lock and trash all of the future threads bashing dealers and Malibu for lack of service and warranty support if you bought one this way. You knew what you were getting into. It has been said lots on here. This mess is just going to hurt everyone. 

3 hours ago, COOP said:

I cant imagine Malibu would buy the boats back.

Coop - Many of the floor plan agreements have buy-back clauses in them just for this reason. So I do know that Malibu does in some cases buy them back. With this being more of a local bank situation, who knows if this one had that in there. 

At the end of the day, floor planning is pretty simple. Dealer orders the boat--> Floor plan is locked in for slot and approved-->boat is built-->floor plan company pays for the boat--> boat leaves the factory and is delivered-->Dealer pays interest on the boat until sold--> Buyer pays dealership-->Dealership pays floor plan provider-->Buyer has clear title

Many floor plan companies send reps to check on inventory on the regular. This bank should have been keeping a closer eye on the lots and a dealer never should have been holding back or spending money that was paid on a customer boat and intended to pay the floor plan off.

1 hour ago, EchelonMike said:

We are on the main channel of Norris and it is a very deep lake but was consistently reading 190-ish feed deep which seemed deeper vs what I recall seeing.  Expected 120-150'. 

Depending what part of Norris you are talking about, those could be legit numbers. Just north of Sequoyah is more than 200-ft deep, and it gets near that towards the dam. If you are seeing those numbers up east of the Peninsula or down on the part of the lake I call the "Big Lake", you got problems. 

Incidentally, my '16 23LSV shows "--" when it gets above 200. 

17 hours ago, EchelonMike said:

I swapped to the 2805 and wow, what a different boat.  So quiet and turns much fewer revs.

Very nice! Why every 23 LSV doesn't come with that prop as stock is one of life's mysteries. 

Such an easy way to surprise and delight customers, rather than leave them underwhelmed and potentially frustrated after a huge and exciting purchase.  

My .02 on depth finders - unless you are fishing, by the time you need it it is too late