Iowa RV dealer blasts Camping World tactics

Ralph Cramden wrote:

gmcsmoke wrote:
lol at that video, some high school drama class must be proud of their writing.

quick search on camping world's site found 4,469 new and used campers below $15k and 3,300 new campers below $15k. I guess they do keep some in stock after all. if you're going to bash a company at least try to do it right.

LOL all you want, those are called leaders.
The oldest ad gimmick in the book with the intent to get you on the lot to bend you over in person.

Just like the big picture of the F150 on half a page of your local rag placed by the Ford dealer showing $25K as the price. Note the specific stock number, as it was sold about the time the paper hit the press. They do however have several for $50K they would love to show you.

I agree those are "leaders", which are generally legal. Nothing wrong with leaders. Many years ago we used leaders in the auto accessory shops I worked in. The purpose was to get you in the store to buy the leader, (which we had plenty in stock and made no money on), in the hope we could sell you something we did make money on. The purpose of the leader was to get you in the store.

However, the requirement with "leaders" in virturally every state is that unit must be for sale (even if you only have one), and you must be able to buy it for the advertised price. What's going on here is the leader is available, but you can't buy it for that price.

Years ago I worked with a guy who sold cars. He said if anyone ever sold the leader for the price advertised, you would be fired. Probably the same policy with CW but that won't happen because the sales manager would have to approve the sale first.