Market Guides

Asking Price vs Sold Price

Boat listings usually expose asking prices. A sold-marked or removed listing is not automatically a confirmed transaction price.

Level
foundation
Read time
7 min
Sources
2

Price Signal Types

Asking price

The listed price observed from a marketplace, broker feed, dealer export, or approved source.

  • Useful for current market supply.
  • Can change over time.
  • May include or exclude tax, VAT, trailer, tender, options, or seller fees.

Sold price

A transaction price that the source explicitly identifies as sold-price data.

  • Stronger valuation signal when source-backed.
  • Often unavailable or restricted.
  • Must not be inferred from a removed or sold-marked listing.

Observed Listing Timeline

A single listing can move through observed states without ever revealing the final transaction price.
First seen
The first time Boatpedia observed the listing under an approved source policy.
Price change
A changed observed asking price, preserved as history instead of overwriting the old value.
Final observed status
Sold-marked, removed, expired, stale, or unknown depending on source evidence.

Public Chart Labels

FieldMeaningBoatpedia use
CurrencyOriginal currency and any normalized display currency.Keeps international listings comparable while preserving source truth.
Tax statusWhether tax or VAT appears included, excluded, paid, unpaid, or unknown.Prevents cross-region comparisons from implying precision.
Sample sizeNumber of listings or observations used in a trend point.Controls whether a chart is a strong, limited, or insufficient signal.
Status mixActive, sold-marked, removed, expired, duplicate, project, outlier, or stale.Separates live supply from historical activity.
References

Sources and Method Notes

Boatpedia reference

Boatpedia market-tracking standard

Public guidance for reading asking-price history, listing freshness, and market caveats.

Open source
Boatpedia reference

Boatpedia reference standards

Public guidance for reading model facts, source notes, market context, and data caveats on Boatpedia.

Open source
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