What's Fair?
I know dealers have to make money too or else they wouldn't be in business but trying to figure out the MSRP and the "make offer" and the "show price" and the few that just put a dollar amount up and ...
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Ivylog wrote:
Since you already have a MH and assuming you want to trade it in... MSRP, % discount are meaningless. You could get 35% off of MSRP but they are going to screw you on your trade. Too many games in a trade so it's how much money they want in addition to your rig for you to upgrade.
Trades do complicate thing greatly.
If you want to trade, realize that you will be leaving more money on the table than if there is no trade.
Not to say trading is a bad deal. We are trading our MH in sig for a DRV and are happy with the deal we got. Why? I'm realistic in my chances in selling a some what expensive used class A and realize that its not going to appreciate over the year I try to sell it. Knowing that and seeing that my best case "real" number is only about 7k less in a deal worth around 300k that 7 grand wasn't material for us. Especially with sales tax eating up most of that if we sold ourselves and bought the new unit.
Obviously on a % basis you can't go in expecting bottom barrel pricing on a new unit and expect them to pay top dollar for your used one. There has to be some profit in there for them somewhere. How much is all depending on how reasonable everyone is and how fast they think they can flip your MH.
I think many owners are pretty unreasonable in their expectations of what their rigs are worth and that causes a lot of issues come time to sell. Many are also upside down on loans which doesn't help things either.
