Typical RV sales behavior

bacil wrote:

True, that volume in the sales buys lots of forgiveness, but still you shouldn't just ignore customer. If you the high seller you probably can get someone else (say assistant) send an email saying sorry i am busy now, but will get back to you in day or two.

Sounds good in theory but in reality a lot easier to just conveniently forget to respond to emails that aren't likely to result in a sale.

You are looking at it from the point of view that you know you are serious. They are looking at it from the point of view 99% chance it never turns into a sale. (plus most won't have assistants)

Thanks for the insight to the order, from what you sail i gather that it not like with boats, where everything thats not dealer installable comes from factory and is QA'd at least 3 times, to make sure that the order is correct and delivered correctly.

I hope this is a joke. I know several people who have bought both RV and Boats new. The idea that either is QA'd 3 times and everything works right from day 1 just doesn't happen.

In fact, that's one of the biggest knocks against buying new. For both RV & boats, you often lose a big part of the first season getting everything that is wrong fixed.

And last question, or rather comment. You suggest to look fo unit thats somewhere in stock that has most of what we want so you would sacrifice something instead of ordering ? For example i have found one unit that has everything except double-glazing would you go for that ?

No, if you really want something specific, go ahead and special order but unless you are in the real high end market, don't expect them to fall all over themselves to do that if they have something close on the lot. You likely won't get as deep of a discount and it likely will be much more of a hassle.

Double glazing would be expensive to retrofit but a lot of things can be added after the fact. Depends what the trailer on the lot is missing. (adding slideout covers for example is fairly straight forward after the fact). You would have to decide what it is you really want and how hard it is to retrofit.

It's a lot more like going down to a new car dealer. They will special order if you ask but would prefer the much easier deal of selling off the lot.