Am I Being Unreasonable?

Trackrig wrote:
This one is hard to answer and would depend on a lot of things.

Have you actually met the seller, or has everything been handled through the internet so far? Does he have a "feel" for you?

How bad does he want to sell it?

How have your negotiations on the price gone?

When we bought ours from a private seller, we handled almost all of it through the internet. He was in Colorado and we were in Alaska and Mexico. He wasn't really sure he wanted to sell it. While he took a lot of pictures and time to answer our questions, he wasn't the type that wanted or liked to spend a lot of time on emails and counter offers trying to save pennies. We made him a reasonable offer below what he was asking and he accepted it. When we flew in to finish the buy based on actual inspection, he thanked me for the way we handled the pricing. He even filled up the 100 gal tank full of diesel, handled transferring over his warranty to us, put some food and water in the refer that he had running since he knew we'd be traveling right away in it and spent 4 - 5 hours showing us everything.

Some people don't let anyone in their MH and others invite everyone in. I'm not saying I wouldn't let you spend the night in mine if I was selling, but it would only be if I had a good feeling about you, I didn't think you were going to nit-pic everything to death and how much of a pain you had been during price negotiations. And, had I already removed all of my personal stuff from the MH. So, I'm not saying you're being unreasonable, but I can understand someone not wanting to do it.

Bill

Bill,

I think that is a great point. To this point we have mostly spoken through email, though we have talked on the phone twice. Haven't discussed a hard number. I have his listed price and he is said that he is "willing to be flexible on pricing." Honestly, from what I have seen in photos, I think his price is fair and don't intend to beat him up over it.

It is a two hour drive between us and I have indicated that I will need to do this in two parts: My wife's schedule is very difficult to work around, so I do the pre-scouting. Once I find one that I like enough to even consider as a possibility, I will come back with her along to make the final decision. Until that point, I don't even talk price. So far I have looked at four RV's. I have not been happy with any of them, so I am glad that I saved her all of that driving around time.

I can certainly understand the uncertainty of letting someone stay in your motorhome. On the other hand, that is why I offered to make the payment first, so that if we did any damage to it... it would be OUR responsibility, not his.

I am not sure it is a dealbreaker for me. I mean, nothing says that I can't go spend 10 hours inspecting it, just not "sleep over" in it.

As to the poster who mentioned "see if you can do that at a dealer"... No.. but with a dealer you usually get a warranty if you were to find out the next day that for example... the air conditioner can only run for two hours before tripping a breaker and shutting down the whole coach.

I can see both sides of this, I really can. I would like to figure out a way to make this so that neither side feels like they are being taken advantage of.