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LakeN
Explorer
Apr 30, 2013

RV shopping.....loss of deposit?!

Just wondering if anyone has experienced a loss of deposit during an RV transaction? For example: plan to buy a unit, put down deposit, learn that salesperson wrongly informed customer about features, customer backs out, dealership tells customer they forfeit their $1K deposit.

Anyone had similar scenario??
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    Francesca_Knowl
    Explorer
    Apr 30, 2013
    A deposit is like a "restocking fee" on any other special order item- usually not refundable except according to whatever terms are in the agreement.

    I have paid such fees- I recently did so on a tongue jack that I special ordered. In that case it was 20% of the cost of the item, which I presume is much higher percentage wise than the thousand dollar deposit you put down on your order.

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