RVT.com, Anybody Use Them to sell RV?

laknox wrote:

golf_bears wrote:
We are selling our 5th wheel and have it listed on Craig's list. Came across this web site RVT.com which,for a fee, will list the RV and get you more exposure. Has anyone dealt with them or heard about them in selling or buying an RV?

If you have any suggestions on how to get more exposure on selling our RV please let us know.

Thanks in advance.

I've had my Komfort on the market for a year. Got exiled from CL for posting it too many times, so had to leave it down for about 45 days. I've paid RVTrader and RVT for listings there. RVTrader generates about 10x the views that RVT does, but it's not a "run 'til it sells" ad; your ad on RVT =will= run until you cancel it. I've got about another 30-40 days before Trader expires and I will not renew it. I'm not a fan of Trader's admin side. I've not gotten notices when my ad was about to go inactive and it actually went inactive...twice. They refused to extend me for a couple weeks for =their= email problem. They can send me my searches all day long, as well as their newsletter, but not anything relating to my ad. Not quite true; I have had a few, a =very= few inquiries. Out of 10-11, 6 or 7 were out 'n out scams. Also, their searches return =way= too many false results. When you're looking for a =specific= model RV, you should =only= see those results, not another 200 that have nothing to do with your search other than brand and that it's a FW. RVT's search, OTOH, is =much= more targeted and my saved searches return =only= the specific models I'm looking for. Trader couldn't give a rat's a$$ about it and their CS reps come across as too busy and arrogant to really care. BUT...they pull vast amounts of traffic, there's no getting around that. So far, my most serious inquiries have come from Craig's List...

Lyle

An update...

My RVTrader listing expired about 3 weeks ago, and I NEVER received =any= email from them, at any point in time, telling me that I had X weeks/days until it did expire, yet I still continue to get results for my saved searches, no problem. Not even a "reminder" that might generate another sale for them. How dumb is that on their part, to miss an opportunity to, possibly, make more money? I can only wish RVT.com were as big as RVTrader, as their customer service and product are =much= better, but they simply don't get the traffic to generate leads. From an administrative standpoint, RVTrader simply sucks, as does their search program, which returns about 90% false positives. RVT, OTOH, has much better customer service and their search system is much more accurate, returning nearly 100% accurate results for the specific models I'm interested in finding.

Lyle

When we sold our last trailer, I sold it through the deal we bought our new one from's classified area. But I also advertised it on eBay. eBay has a classified area that is free, and it only goes out to your general local area. I don't remember how big an area. I got a lot of response from that ad, and if I hadn't already sold it, I could have sold it several more times. Give it a try, it's free.

Mark

Craigslist here. My 94 Terry was really clean and I took a bunch of pictures with my good Nikon camera (it makes a difference). I had it priced fairly and sold it to the first person that looked at it for asking price (on the condition that I deliver it to him an hour away). I also bought its replacement - my current trailer - from an ad on Craigslist (a dealer). I did look at RVT many times while searching for it. All that said, I think newer, higher end, higher priced trailers might be more of a challenge to sell on Craigslist.

We tried them because it said with our KOA membership you get a free listing. Yeah not so much.
We tried anyways but all we got were a bunch of scam calls, business calls asking if we wanted to rent our RV, and junk emails.

Never again.

We tried Craigslist and it wasn't to bad. Got a lot of responses and a lot of people to come and look at it.

Ended up trading in anyways.

I've used RV Trader as a buyer, but I've only sold on Craigslist. I think the success you can have on Craigslist varies a lot depending on the part of the country you're in. In some markets it seems to dominate while it gets little traffic in other areas.

golf_bears wrote:
We are selling our 5th wheel and have it listed on Craig's list. Came across this web site RVT.com which,for a fee, will list the RV and get you more exposure. Has anyone dealt with them or heard about them in selling or buying an RV?

If you have any suggestions on how to get more exposure on selling our RV please let us know.

Thanks in advance.

I've had my Komfort on the market for a year. Got exiled from CL for posting it too many times, so had to leave it down for about 45 days. I've paid RVTrader and RVT for listings there. RVTrader generates about 10x the views that RVT does, but it's not a "run 'til it sells" ad; your ad on RVT =will= run until you cancel it. I've got about another 30-40 days before Trader expires and I will not renew it. I'm not a fan of Trader's admin side. I've not gotten notices when my ad was about to go inactive and it actually went inactive...twice. They refused to extend me for a couple weeks for =their= email problem. They can send me my searches all day long, as well as their newsletter, but not anything relating to my ad. Not quite true; I have had a few, a =very= few inquiries. Out of 10-11, 6 or 7 were out 'n out scams. Also, their searches return =way= too many false results. When you're looking for a =specific= model RV, you should =only= see those results, not another 200 that have nothing to do with your search other than brand and that it's a FW. RVT's search, OTOH, is =much= more targeted and my saved searches return =only= the specific models I'm looking for. Trader couldn't give a rat's a$$ about it and their CS reps come across as too busy and arrogant to really care. BUT...they pull vast amounts of traffic, there's no getting around that. So far, my most serious inquiries have come from Craig's List...

Lyle

RVT has a Free ad package, at least that's what it says on the site.. they'll try to sell upgrades of course.. but if it truly is free... why not..

you can even snail mail your ad and pictures..

Nope, just Craigslist here...