Typical RV sales behavior
OK, i know this has been mentioned before but i need to put this to my ow perspective and would like to know your opinions. As i mentioned elsewhere i am currently in Europe sailing and finishing s...
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minnow wrote:
RV sales are at a record pace. Dealerships are selling plenty of RV's to customers that walk in their doors. They don't need to sell an RV to someone via correspondence and will not make the effort to answer questions. Frankly, they don't need your business.
I agree with the first part, but the second is open to debate. I can not pass an RV dealer without stopping and It's not really like you have people standing in line at the door at any I happen to visit. They (some) may be crowded on a Saturday, but during the week it's not gangbusters at any I am aware of.
Sure, they and the RVIA want you to think that, as its in their favor.
The reality of it is the RV Industry shipped around 504K RV's in 2017.
But then again they shipped 390K in 06, and 390K in 78. In 1978 the US population was 220 million, and in 2017 it was roughly 324 million.
Morning math LOL.
220,000,000 / 390,000 = 1 RV sold for every 564 people 1978
324,000,000 / 504,000 = 1 RV sold for every 642 people 2017
Add to that, going by an iffy number (data from an article at RVDaily in 2015), there are/were somewhere in the neighborhood of 2332 RV dealers in the US.(2200 of them Camping World lol) 504,000 / 2332 is 216 sales per year per dealer if it worked that way which it doesn't. Add Canadian dealers into that mix also. Its not like these RV dealers are selling 10 or 20 a day every day like SUV's and pickups down at Billy Bobs Interstate Mega Ford Super Store.
That does not help the OP at all, but IMO this whole RV boom thing is hopped up, and is one very small economic bump from implosion.
