Tips on buying new
For those of you contemplating buying a new travel trailer from a long distance dealer, say in the very north of Indiana where most are manufactured, allow me to give you some tips that I learnt the h...
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bikendan wrote:APT wrote:
Getting quotes from the "wholesale" RV companies and comparing to your local is wise. Then consider what the value is to pay more locally to each buyer. Sometimes the savings is worth it, other times not.
this is what it boils down to.
for us, our local dealers actually laughed at us and dared us to drive 2000 miles one-way, if we wanted prices like RVW and RVDirect.
the lowest local dealer's price on our new HTT, was $19,500.
so, we drove the 4000 mile RT and got the exact same HTT for $14,500.
the manufacturer found us local dealers that were more than happy to do the warranty work and never had any problems with that.
I used price quotes I got from around the country to beat down a local dealer on my Navion. I was prepared to pay a few grand more to stay local. They came within $600 which was more than 10 grand lower than their initial "discounted" price. Winnebago charges the same to deliver to all dealers so that is a non issue.
