I can't speak for Sandersons but I DO know many who consider him a GREAT dealer and would give him the benefit of the doubt before I did anything else based solely on the reputation I have heard about over the years. Great reputations in the marine industry are about THE hardest thing to gain of ANY type of business.
As for Glenn Reynolds and Linda Owens, KUDOs too the both. Glenn is the reason I still own an Allison today. I wasn't even a customer of his, I towed by boat 4 hours too his place and one week later it was running faster and handling better than it EVER had been before. LORD KNOWS Linda and Larry are great people and if and when I ever get lucky enough to get that new 21 BasSport it more than likely will come from them. Linda busts her arse and her success has started to show for her efforts!
As for Allison Boats Inc. I don't know of anyother company in such a lofty position within their own industry where you can simply drop in un-anounced and have the owner and his wife take care of you personally. They aren't the slap you on the back, tell you how great a person you are and feed you a line of bull people like alot of business types who typically laugh at you when you leave and then smile as they deposit your money in their bank account! They are quiet people who simply take care of business, are truely dedicated too their craft and appreciate their customers. I can't think of anything that is more important!!!
As for Gambler, I make no qualms about the hulls themselves being my second favorite in bassboats. BUT I have heard many many many more horror stories about their sorry customer service than I have heard good.
I can tell you from being in both the automobile and sporting goods industry, despite a dealers best intent, sorry support from the factory literally HOGTIES a dealers hands when taking care of his own customers. For the price of admission for a Gambler I don't think thats an admirable trait!
Good luck,
RA
ps
$27k would buy you a VERY nice used Allison. For that kind of money you could get a ProSport that is only a couple-3 year old. WTF kind Gboat did you spend that kind of cheese restoring?
