I recently bought a new-to-me boat, a 2000 Maxum 2300 SCR. My wife and I were definitely "informed" buyers, coming armed with notes, other listings, prices, etc.
We ended up buying ours from Silver Sands Marina, but were also very impressed with Shep Brown's as well. Channel Marine folks seemed friendly and helpful as well. Overall I'd say we had a good experience, and didn't get any salespeople trying to be deceptive or misleading. That might've been because they new better, or maybe we just dealt with different people/places than you did.
I will say that Fay's was useless, we came to look at 2 specific boats, one I was pretty interested in. The sales guy on duty left for lunch about 10 minutes after we got there, and then never called me in response to the message I left with the sales admin or whoever she was that I was very interested in one of their boats. Trexlers was also less than impressive to us.
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