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magicbus wrote:

GDS-3950BH wrote:
Just because you don't care does not mean other people on the board do not care. Why not just dump it in the ho-hum bucket when you first read the thread, and not even comment to begin with if you don't care?

Maybe you need to stop posting just to defend your original post and accept that other people have differing opinions. Until your last post (and now mine of course) the discussion was not personal, it was about RV sales.

Dave

Yes - sorry, meant no offense.

GDS-3950BH wrote:
Just because you don't care does not mean other people on the board do not care. Why not just dump it in the ho-hum bucket when you first read the thread, and not even comment to begin with if you don't care?

Maybe you need to stop posting just to defend your original post and accept that other people have differing opinions. Until your last post (and now mine of course) the discussion was not personal, it was about RV sales.

Dave

Lightning55 wrote:
As the Boomers age, they can't live the active lifestyle that they did when a little younger.

I hear that. I can barely manage to raise my solar panels.

Bipeflier wrote:
We older Baby Boomers are starting to slow down and not spend as much money, moving into retirement type homes instead of campers. Younger folks are not into camping. Given the demographics in the U.S. I suspect it is all downhill from here.

I agree. As the Boomers age, they can't live the active lifestyle that they did when a little younger.

After 70 years, you would think we would recognize the impact of baby boomers. We built schools for them. We sized our power plants for them. We built subdivisions for them. We sold them a ton of RV's. Their time is about over for mass consumption. They are now exploding the health care industry. Follow the boomers and their money.

Next generation will probably watch an RV start its engine, travel down the highway and thru the forests on their phone. No sense buying an RV when they can observe the travels in living color on a 3x5 screen. Life in a box.

Monkey predicts sales over the next year or two will drop significantly. Less people camping, less people retiring, more phones and I-pads ...

Fine with me, leaves more camp space for us old fogies!! :)

I care about PARTS availability. Without parts my Dutch Star will die.

I'm really struggling to figure out why people with RV's would really care if sales figures are down. Every time I drive by the dealer I bought it from, I see a sea of RV's and it looks like the RIVA data is dealer purchases - number of units shipped per year, and not consumer purchases. So dealerships have a lot of stock - so what? It's winter isn't it? I've got the one I'm happy with, and will continue to use it - this one goes in the Ho-Hum bucket.

schlep1967 wrote:

Some more math. 2.8 million units (probably a low number) divided by 14,600 RV Campgrounds = roughly 192 RV's per campground.

I think we could stand a few years with fewer RV's being made.

You need to extrapolate to camping nites per unit. Many don't do 14 a year.

Dave5143 wrote:
How many people have wised up and bought used? Maybe that accounts for the drop in new sales also.

At some point. they had to be bought new. There is only a finite number of used RVs.
Me. I always buy new. I don't want a used one. I want a new bed, and new axles, and a new roof, and a new bathroom. I like new stuff. My current Tt was bought NEW in 2012. If I ever buy again. It also will be new. There is nothing like new.