We backed out of the deal
We found a great motorhome! It had everything we needed at a price we could afford. We agreed to purchase and the owner drove it to our home and parked it in the driveway. We spent the evening just...
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et2 wrote:
Who knows what he tore into to get the answers he was seeking. Probably the same as you would have done. Picked it apart piece by piece looking for something that didn't please you or something to negotiate a lower price with. There is no benefit to the seller as this case proved it. It was his fault he didn't get some cash out of the whole ordeal.
You can bet it won't happen with the next prospective buyer with him if he learned anything. And if it were me, any cash exchanged is up front (cash) and would have been rental fees and no refunds with documentation of that agreement, but it wouldn't because I don't want you ripping my rig apart. As I said in your post, your welcome to take a few hours looking it over and taking it on a test drive ( with me). But it isn't being delivered to your home for further critique.
I must have failed to read the part where the OP "ripped apart" someones MH. I read "upon inspection." Maybe to you that means ripping things apart, but it doesn't necessarily mean that to me or to the OP. As for looking for something to negotiate the price lower... You make it sound like that is a bad thing. Damn right.. if I find a problem I'm going to ask for a lower price. You know the best way to combat that? List EVERY SINGLE DEFECT YOU CAN -- even if that means a pull in the carpeting that covers the dogbox. If a seller says he is selling something that is "perfect" for x amount of dollars, then that is what the item is worth in "perfect" condition. Anything less than his declaration of condition -- then we have something to talk about. It is always the sellers right to say, "Nope, not going to go any lower. It is what it is, take it or leave it."
As for there being no benefit to the seller... again I would have to disagree. I walked away from the sale where the guy wouldn't let me stay. The one that I finally bought said it would be fine. I chose not to take him up on the offer because I felt he went out of his way to point out EVERY SINGLE DEFECT he knew about -- including the fact that one of the tire air sensors had a wrong id number sticker on it, and that the pressure gauge that he installed on the water fill wasn't accurate. So the benefit to allowing it? One seller now has a wad of cash in his pocket; the other seller still has a MH sitting in his driveway. Seems to be a pretty big benefit to me.
