Trusted motorhome dealerships?

barlow46 wrote:
Sometimes a google search can help out but when all is said and done, each person perceives their experience as the one that counts. Here is a link about Lazy Days for instance where some didn't have the great experience and I am sure you can find good and bad about them all.

http://www.pissedconsumer.com/reviews-by-company/lazy-days-rv-center.html

Interesting info. Earlier this year we spent a day at their Fl. location. Due to the DW's disabilities, we were extremely limited as to exactly what floor plans on a used coach would work for us. In the end we found two coaches in the price range. Both were only a few years old, but in poor condition. Both had been used HARD by full-timers and need a lot of reconditioning. Basically the offer was, "We will take your trade for a small fraction of what it's worth, we want NADA high retail for our coach, and we will throw a new set of tires on the coach for you" The fact that the units were flogged, in need of everything from new decals and floor coverings, up to needing repairs to a leaking slide and heavily damaged cabinetry seemed meaningless to them. When I calculated the value of the rigs at low retail, less the repairs and reconditioning, I was at roughly 60% of the "really great price" that they wouldn't budge from.

In the end we found a rig at a local competitor. If the offerings at LD were a #3 on a ten scale, this one is an #8. We sold our current trailer and truck privately, for well over high retail, and it all went well. I'm glad we spent time at LD, we learned a lot, but there is little danger of them getting our money anytime soon.

Obviously they have a lot of satisfied customers. That said, my feeling is that the more you educate yourself, and really shop hard for a few months, the less likely you will be to be one of the ones who brags that "I really was treated well at Lazy Days"