New or used 5th wheel?
We were looking to buy a TT around $20,000 at most. Since we are now considering 5th wheels, I have seen that the prices are higher. Would it be alright to buy used? Or is new better due to warra...
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newk wrote:
I've bought used, barely used, and new. I don't know what the next one will be.
One thing that can be very misleading is the amount that's "saved" by buying slightly used. "New it was $50K and we got it three years old for only $30K!" Sound familiar? That's a 40% savings. You can usually get a 35% to 40% discount off the sticker price on a brand new model. So was that $50K the new sticker price, the price the dealer used when offering a great trade-in price on someone's tired old rv, or was it actually the (discounted) cash value when new?
Some people will actually pay more for a year-old rv (or car, truck, etc.) than they will for the same thing brand new. My late father-in-law, a fanatic about caring for his "good car," traded for a new one every year for $500. The dealer sold his year-old trade-ins for more than they'd sell the same thing new. Weird but true. Buyers wanted that year-old car because it was in pristine condition and was priced a little less than a new one... but they could have gotten a bigger discount on the new one.
Wow!! Who knew???!!! But, I can believe it, because the 2011 Keystone Outback that we saw today was priced at $31,900, which seemed rather high...not much depreciation for a 3 year old model, so I was perplexed....and disappointed.
What you say could very well be the case. I just looked up 2014 models and although they do not have the exact model any longer, they range from upper 20s to mid 50s. So, even if it were 45,000 new, that would come to 31,500 at 30% off.
