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Colo Native wrote:
Can you get a better deal buying dealer stock or order from the manufacture? I know cars I seem to do better ordering. I know it all relative to how each person feels about the deal.

Let me start by saying the RV (and marine) business is not the car business. RV's are a 6 month selling season, while cars are sold 12 months out of the year. RV dealers have 12 month expenses, however. A successful RV dealer must get a "fair" profit in order to stay in business, as they don't have manufacturers' holdbacks and regional advertising pools car dealers have.

You'll usually do better buying a unit in stock. Dealers are often offered incentives to order RV's at Fall order writing, as the RV maker wants to keep his factory running consistently 12 months of the year. Throughout the year, price increases can make the stock unit cheaper to buy (than a new one.)

I started looking around at dealers within a 200 mile radius of my house, and got prices quoted online. It was easy to see who the "leader of the pack was" in the selling department.

I happened to be going through another city 275 miles away, and stopped at a RV dealer. I furnished the prices previously quoted, and they beat the best deal by $900. And the salesman changed one of their pending orders to my specs., and I had my fifth wheel within 3 weeks. I shot them straight, and they shot me straight--no haggling from either side. That's a fair deal.