FMCA to allow Towables Owners to join
Got an email, a little bit ago. Towables Owners can now join. They won't be accepting applications until the paperwork is finished. I'm ambivalent about it. It will change the whole character of th...
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The Ralliesabout are a good thing FMCA.
We didn't make one this year but instead American Coach rally in Oklahoma.
Only about 125 coaches this time.
I don't know how many or if any new coaches were sold but at other Rallies FMCA and American Coach as many as ten coaches sold.
We had our heat pump repaired not cost by Coleman, that seized up while there.
At others a water heater problem helped with.
Oil changes and transmission fluid changes, while no money was saved done on Rally Goers Schedule while they enjoy the doings. Use to be lots more vendors but they don't want to show unless 150-200coaches, or so I was told. I had hoped to have Roadmaster service our tow bar, since camping World is unreliable and very expensive. they have quit showing up, however Blue Ox dealer was there and sold and serviced some tow bars etc.
Participants are aging out, it is that simply.
While a lot of new Rvers are showing up, not as many as the cost, of Rigs is now higher and horror stories of service avaialble is reaching way beyond the RV community.
The economy and economic freedom, are keeping more people at home or closer to home.
Down the road it may, probably will improve, but the bulk of Participants are Retirees etc and though I have met several in their nineties, even Widows and Widowers off that age there is a cycle undetermined as to when the majority get into it, live it, and settle down, at last, in Florida etc.
The Industry makes or made a lot of money at these Rallies as showcases, for everything RV including coaches, and created a lot of good will with some services, like American Coach and Coleman and Freightliner, with free fixes, clinics and the big feeds or the party, that put money, in their cash register, in the short term and over the long haul.
Everyone does business within the family.
However, now, Wall Street is acquiring the RV industry and demanding the maximization of their returns and service, and customer support, and being part of the RV Community doesn't make them enough money in their book.
They are cutting their own throats.
I understand sales are up so there is some disparity here I can't explain, as it shows scant presence elsewhere.
We didn't make one this year but instead American Coach rally in Oklahoma.
Only about 125 coaches this time.
I don't know how many or if any new coaches were sold but at other Rallies FMCA and American Coach as many as ten coaches sold.
We had our heat pump repaired not cost by Coleman, that seized up while there.
At others a water heater problem helped with.
Oil changes and transmission fluid changes, while no money was saved done on Rally Goers Schedule while they enjoy the doings. Use to be lots more vendors but they don't want to show unless 150-200coaches, or so I was told. I had hoped to have Roadmaster service our tow bar, since camping World is unreliable and very expensive. they have quit showing up, however Blue Ox dealer was there and sold and serviced some tow bars etc.
Participants are aging out, it is that simply.
While a lot of new Rvers are showing up, not as many as the cost, of Rigs is now higher and horror stories of service avaialble is reaching way beyond the RV community.
The economy and economic freedom, are keeping more people at home or closer to home.
Down the road it may, probably will improve, but the bulk of Participants are Retirees etc and though I have met several in their nineties, even Widows and Widowers off that age there is a cycle undetermined as to when the majority get into it, live it, and settle down, at last, in Florida etc.
The Industry makes or made a lot of money at these Rallies as showcases, for everything RV including coaches, and created a lot of good will with some services, like American Coach and Coleman and Freightliner, with free fixes, clinics and the big feeds or the party, that put money, in their cash register, in the short term and over the long haul.
Everyone does business within the family.
However, now, Wall Street is acquiring the RV industry and demanding the maximization of their returns and service, and customer support, and being part of the RV Community doesn't make them enough money in their book.
They are cutting their own throats.
I understand sales are up so there is some disparity here I can't explain, as it shows scant presence elsewhere.
