RVIA Pomona too expensive

westernrvparkowner wrote:

Jim@HiTek wrote:

msmith1199 wrote:

Jim@HiTek wrote:

msmith1199 wrote:
Just for info, it's not the RV dealers who are charging this admission. They are also paying the fairgrounds to rent their spaces. It's the fairgrounds who gets all the money but also pays all the expenses for the show itself.

And the dealers should pay for it all...

So what you're saying then is only people who buy motorhomes from those dealers should pay for the entire show??? Dealers could not afford to give any good pricing deals if they had to pay for the entire show. Not to mention there would be no show.

It's a giant commercial. The business(es) and factories that create the commercial pays for it. The charge to visit someplace they are trying to sell something is an extra charge over and above the price already quoted for the rig. And the shows I've visited 3-4 times over the years didn't convince me that they were giving much of a discount, if any.

They should be totally free. Even the parking. And ask yourself, have you ever seen a poor RV dealers home? Usually they are mansions.

But, personally, I'll never go to a RV show that charges admission...and as I said before, JMO!

Guess you made a bad career decision. You should have been an RV dealer and you too could have a mansion. And apparently you aren't too quick on the take up either. You visited the shows 3 or 4 times before you decided it was a giant commercial and they don't give away RVs at them, all the time paying what you feel is an unfair admission price? Apparently the rich do get richer and the poor do get poorer. Or as the quote attributed to PT Barnum goes: "There's a sucker born every minute.

I made excellent career decisions. I did what I loved my entire work life.

The 3-4 RV shows I did visit over the years were either free to begin with, or I picked up free tickets from give away specials. My impression was that paying for one would be stupid.