I've been looking for a 24' pontoon trailer for a few months now.  My wife calls me a little bit ago and said she just bought one from some lady for $2,000, (about $400 more than I would have offered if it was the right one) but it's going to be next weekend before I can see it or get it.  She knows absolutely nothing about them, this one is "supposed" to be 24', according to her cousins measurement,  nothing about the age, condition, if it's single or tandem axle, (I need a tandem) or even if it's the right width, all she knows is it was galvanized.   Then she calls and ask if that was OK.  I tell her I guess it will have to be if you've done bought it.  I'm just hoping now, we haven't thrown $2,000 away.

(shudders)

 

I hope it works out, man...

Yikes. 

Kinda just have to chuckle on that one.

My wife has done things, made decisions that she thought were good ideas and I couldn't believe it. Then I realized she really didn't know any better and was only doing what she thought would help me out. She did it because she loves you and is trying to help. It might not work out, but I promise she was only trying to help.

Sure hope it works out for ya. 

Whew!

Well at least you know she still Loves You!!

 

 

 

 

Mike

At least she didn’t buy a hearse! ?

Oh yea, I realize she feels proud of herself because she thinks she has helped me find one when I've been looking for several months now.  Hopefully, with a lot of luck, it will be exactly like what I was looking for.  If it is a 24' Tandem axle trailer, with disc brakes and 14" tires, it's easily worth the $2,000.  However, the way my luck goes, it will be more like something Noa used for the ark. 

My main concern are, is it really a 24' and is the spacing on the bunks right for my boat.  If those two things are right, I can make it work.  If those are off, it means a lot of cutting and welding to make it work and being galvanized, that's a pain.

Regardless of what it is, I can make it work, it's just if I have to do too much, it's a lot of money and work that I would have been just as well off having bought a new one.

Trust me, there is no way I would say anything negative to her about it, because of the fact, she thinks she was helping, and who knows, she may have.

"Bought" as in she paid for it or just told someone she'd take it without money changing hands?  

If she made the lady an offer with no stipulations and the lady accepted that offer, it's bought, money having changed hand or not.  

I'm very old school when it comes to making deals, my word is my bond and if I commit and say I want it, and no stipulations are placed on it, then as far as I'm concerned, it's mine.  

I'm not saying anyone should weasel out of a handshake deal.  However if representations were made by the seller, such as the size of the trailer, and they turn out to be untrue, then you have legitimate grounds to decline to go through with the deal.

Yes, but as far as I know, the lady has made no representations of the trailer.  He cousin bought a water front lot on a lake and the trailer is sitting on his lot, and the lady is trying to figure out what to do with it to get it off his lot and she doesn't have room.  He knows we are looking for one and he's the one that told my wife about it and he's the one that measured it and said it was a 24'. 

This came about about a couple of months ago when he mentioned it to my wife, and I told her to  tell him to see if she was interest in selling it, I would ride down there and look at it.  At that time she said she was not interested because she would have no way to haul her pontoon if she needed to. 

He was down there the other day and it was still on his property and she was still trying to figure out what to do with it.  That's when my wife took it upon herself to make her and offer, and I guess she accepted it.

Wow. I hope it's exactly what you want.

If it turns out to be not so good, always and I mean always refer to it as “her boat”.

 

My wife and I do this to each other all the time, but we have a great time kidding each other?

Last time my wife bought a car, I went to bed at 10am after working all night and she owned one car, woke up at 6pm to get ready for work and she owned a new car. I didn't even know she was looking cars ?‍♂️

Reminds me of the time my wife bought me a used bass boat from a guy named Popeye.

On 4/17/2021 at 11:23 PM, jbsoonerfan said:

My wife has done things, made decisions that she thought were good ideas and I couldn't believe it. Then I realized she really didn't know any better and was only doing what she thought would help me out. She did it because she loves you and is trying to help. It might not work out, but I promise she was only trying to help.

This. My wife does the same thing quite often. I figure if she didn’t care then she wouldn’t have done it my friend. 

About 20 years ago, I came back from a two week training class to see this Burgundy Thunderbird sitting in the yard.  My wife had seen it sitting on a used car lot, like the looks of it and decided she was going to buy it.  A total piece of junk that she had paid about four time too much for.  

 

Back when the grandkids were younger, she was taking them to Disney World in Orlando a couple times a year.  She comes back from one of those trips and informs me she had bought a time share down there.  Took me over a year to get out from under that thing.  

 

 

Look, if it doesn't work out all you gotta do is buy a boat that fits it ~ problem solved!

Hope it works out.  My wife once bought a puppy from a highly rated seller online.  She was supposed to pay half up front, and half after we picked the puppy up at the airport.  Problem was that same puppy had been sold to many people over many years.  Was a very sad day when she went to pick it up at the airport and there was no puppy.  No big surprise when the reputable breeder never answered the phone.  Good news is she found the perfect dog a few months later, and is now more cautious of the internet.  Most likely even if the trailer isn't exactly what you want, it wont be a total loss.  You are lucky she wants to buy something you can  use fishing.