Sales agreement
A month ago we decided to buy a particular new trailer from a dealer, but they had to order it from the factory since the only one they had on the lot was already sold. The dealer is a long distance...
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Skid Row Joe wrote:Yeah, good advice, but not always applicable. With no non-refundable deposit the dealer wouldn't hold the unit. This was the only toy hauler we had found that fit our desires. So we took a gamble.fj12ryder wrote:Never do a non-refundable deposit, on an in-stock item. Ever....big mistake.
Yeah, we put $1000 down on ours and went to Knoxville, Tennessee to check it out and pick it up. That was to hold it until we could get there to see it. We understood from the get-go that it was a non-refundable deposit. Luckily the 5th wheel was as we had expected, they fixed all the problems, nothing major, and we paid them.
It's not like it would have cost a lot of money, and we would have lost the trailer. And that's a fact. We talked to people later who we met by chance that had driven down from Ohio to look, and buy, this trailer. The dealer told them it was sold, but let them take a peek inside. They said they would have bought it on the spot. There were only 2 other models available at other dealers, both several thousand dollars higher. Sometimes you just gotta risk it.
