"Don't Buy New"
I notice a lot of you say not to buy a brand new rv unit. I'm "assuming" this is because it takes a while to shake all the right-out-of-the-factory bugs out of it and locate all the problems associat...
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Vulcan Rider wrote:Rancher Will wrote:
Measured in Dollars, I have never suffered any depreciation on the older RV when I sold it to the dealer when replacing it with a new one. Naturally, if I had traded within a year or two I am sure that there would have been some depreciation.
I have this ominous feeling that I should not ask but...........
You're gonna have to explain that one to me.
The only way I see that happening is:
IF you are in an area where the supply of used RVs is tight AND IF the dealer is giving you your "discount" off of the MSRP of your new unit in the form of a higher trade-in price of your old one.
In the first instance, your depreciation really has been less.
In the second, it's just slight of hand.
Yeah, my BS alarm went off on this one too.
