Rant on buying an RV - long

tatest wrote:
People put RVs on consignment because they don't like the price a dealer is willing to pay, and they don't have the time to go into the vehicle sales business on their own, or simply don't want to deal with the buyers.

They also make this choice because they want to sell to real, walk-in buyers, not telephone and e-mail buyers. Most dealers don't want to, either, which is why you are not getting the response you think you should get. It is hard enough to make a sale when the customer is on the lot, so few sales people think it worth there time to try to sell to a customer they haven't seen and might never see.

Some things sell easily by mail order, web sales, on-line auction, telephone, but RVs probably don't, or at least dealers don't think they sell that way. It is not quite the same as buying a DVD from Amazon, or electronics and optics in those situations where the buyer knows exactly what he wants and the seller has it in stock or can get it.

I disagree. With the advent of the internet, buyers can now shop for RVs hundreds and thousands of miles away from home, and many of them do so.

Think about it, why would a business spend a good deal of money building and maintaining a website to attract customers if it's only interested in dealing with walk-ins? Personally, I have had reasonable amounts of replies to inquires made to RV dealerships near and far from me.

The OP shouldn't have to beg someone to take his money. There are reputable dealers with professional sales people that will appreciate his business.