Getting the best price on a toy hauler

$7K worth of options would be noticeable based on the photos and description. I'm just not seeing it... Even the unit at THL has the solar option which Best RV unit does not.

My only thought is the trailers are optioned differently. If Best RV loads up the options on the trailers it sells, it would reflect that higher price.

One thing I've also noticed about Best RV is their MSRP prices on Attitude haulers is WAY higher than similar/same units at THL making them look like they are heavily discounted.

How can there be such a difference in MSRP between these two dealers? I thought the manufacturer sets the MSRP? It looks like Best RV is seriously inflating the MSRP figure which I would think is illegal and Eclipse would have issue with.

Example:
Attitude 28SAG w/slide @ THL has MSRP of $51K: http://www.funcarsmotorsports.com/VehicleDetail3.aspx?wsid=89&bs1=RV&mk=Eclipse&kw=attitude&md=ATTITUDE L28SAG&&stk1=26714&dlr1=160

Nearly identical unit at Best RV has an MSRP of $58k:http://www.bestrv.com/detail.cfm?ID=187491&V=2015%20ECLIPSE%20ATTITUDE%2028SAG%20CALL%20FOR%20THE%20LOWEST%20PRICE%21%20150%20GALLON%20%2FSLIDE%20OUT%20%2FSOLID%20SURFACE

The determination on how good if a deal you got was did you spend more or less than you wanted to. Percentage numbers don't mean that much by themselves.

Ended up going with a different unit.. Did all sorts of research and settled on the Attitude before we went but ended up going with Shockwave by FR after we looked at all of the units they had.

They only had one of these units so they were not as willing to move on price as much as I would have liked. They had about 7 Attitudes that apparently aren't selling as much as the Shockwave for some reason. We just liked the Shockwave better - it had way more options installed from the dealer plus other features that the Attitude just didn't/couldn't have.

If you look at it from the MSRP to the OTD cost, it was 26.8%.
If you look at it from the MSRP to the cost without fees, it was 33.3%.

Which percentage do you typically go by to judge how good of a deal you got? The 26.8% or the 33.3%?

Not sure what PDI is so I don't know if it was included.

Not sure how to include an image... It wants a URL and these images aren't hosted anywhere.

Allistah wrote:
We went and bought our toy hauler yesterday. If I take the MSRP price and the price we paid for the unit, without tax, license and all of that, we got a 33.3% discount off MSRP. I couldn't get them to budge any further. lol I tried and tried. We're happy with the 33.3% though - I think it was a decent deal.

If I understand correctly from their 39,950 asking price you got them down to about 35,000 BEFORE tax/license? Did they include a full PDI?

So what did you end up getting? Post up some pics.

Sweet! Pics!

We went and bought our toy hauler yesterday. If I take the MSRP price and the price we paid for the unit, without tax, license and all of that, we got a 33.3% discount off MSRP. I couldn't get them to budge any further. lol I tried and tried. We're happy with the 33.3% though - I think it was a decent deal.

Allistah wrote:

N-Trouble wrote:
The only place I have seen post better prices than THL is Best RV in Turlock. That is comparing Attitude toyhaulers. Its pretty well known however that Best RVs service after the sale is pretty much non-existent.

Service at Best RV is nonexistent if you bought from somewhere else or do you mean period no matter who you bought it from them or anywhere else?

Best RV service sucks at anytime. Doesn't matter if you bought from them or not. You go there for price.....nothing else.

My experience is this is not the norm. Warranty work doesn't pay as much as regular labor. If the dealer didn't make a profit on the original sale, some/most might not be as willing to help as they would for one that sold originally.

While I agree that this is probably true. It still makes no sense; "less" money is still better than NO money. A better strategy would be to take all comers and build a great relationship with the customer by performing warranty work. Eventually that warranty will run out and I'll be a full paying customer. If they treated me right I will gladly continue to use their service (and parts) department.