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The asking price is $325M, so no, I can’t buy Paul Allen’s yacht

A while ago there was a thread about an article that claimed that more people than you think can afford to buy a Superyacht but less people than you think an afford to maintain one. The article called those groups "LeBron James rich" and "Abramovich rich" if I remember correctly. The article claimed that this was the reason that most Superyachts are "playboys luxury pads" (as another commenter called it) where most passenger pay in some form or other be allowed to be on the yacht.

> more people than you think can afford to buy a Superyacht but less people than you think an afford to maintain one.

Well, the joke goes: A yacht will bring joy to the owner twice: first time when bought, second time when sold.

Yes. And "a boat is just a hole in the water to pour money into".

The potential market for this boat numbers under 1000 people or maybe even under 100 I'd say.

Some of them may be on HN though?

There's a thought, there's a lot of thoughts, actually!

From the listing companies website,

> this yacht is not available for sale to US residents in US waters

I suppose that number is quite small. However I bet this would be a nice addition to some wealthy drug lord, I mean I comes with 2 subs. I wonder if they take cash

If you pay cash today they'd probably accept a lower offer. At least that's been my experience buying stuff on Craigslist.

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