in the modelling fraternity as a whole, model boaters are seen as the tightwads! go to shows with helis, aeroplanes and cars, and people just hand money over no quibbling. Model boaters look, ask the price, think about it, walk away come back 30 mins later, ask the price again then ask if that's the best price! I've seen this happen at so many shows now. When asked what price a boat is, quote the retail price of the boats, ancillaries and radio gear. then tell them that the boat in question took X amount of hours to build and at minimum wage they can work out a price the boat should cost to make. normally once the light goes on in their head that the boat cost has now amounted to over £1000 in time and costs I tell them what price I would accept for said boat. they can then decide if the value is fair.
We have a club member Dave who has hand built a landing craft. OK its a fiberglass hull, but everything else was scratch built, including the 1/35th MAN truck converted to RC and the lathe that everything was turned up on. I know we got to £8000 before we called it a day on pricing.
On the other hand I have also sold boats where I know what I want and ask them to make me a reasonable offer. I normally get double what MY price is!!!