Who's Looking Out for Our Interests?
As a group of people that have a single interest at heart (RV's and all that goes with that term) It seems to me that we are terribly under-represented in the halls of government and with almost no cl...
Forum Discussion
I am new to the RV world and bought my first 5th wheel this year. I was willing to spend more for quality if I could find a floor plan and size that matched.
The biggest problem is visibility of who makes a quality unit. I spend days searching the internet trying to find who made great quality units. However, I never could find the right combination of quality, floor plan, size, etc. Even when I did narrow down some units, all I could do was find people online complaining about things and you can find people complaining for any brand.
So, how do I know somebody makes a quality unit? Is there any industry standard reporting on failure rates by manufacturer? How do I know that Brand X has a problem with their slides? Or that Brand Y has a problem with their gel coat?
In my past life I helped create surveys for consumers. I'm really tempted to start up a survey of forum members from across the internet to start quantifying the quality problems for each manufacturer.
Then, I could make that information publicly available to every buyer on the internet for free. Buyers will be able to make purchasing decisions based on hard numbers related to quality instead of just reading random info on forums.
Manufacturers would then be exposed in regards to their quality (or lack thereof) and they would also see how they stack up against the competition. I believe this would then cause an uptick in attention to quality. The component manufacturers will also be exposed (lipert, etc).
The challenge is getting enough responses to the surveys to cover so many manufacturers.
The biggest problem is visibility of who makes a quality unit. I spend days searching the internet trying to find who made great quality units. However, I never could find the right combination of quality, floor plan, size, etc. Even when I did narrow down some units, all I could do was find people online complaining about things and you can find people complaining for any brand.
So, how do I know somebody makes a quality unit? Is there any industry standard reporting on failure rates by manufacturer? How do I know that Brand X has a problem with their slides? Or that Brand Y has a problem with their gel coat?
In my past life I helped create surveys for consumers. I'm really tempted to start up a survey of forum members from across the internet to start quantifying the quality problems for each manufacturer.
Then, I could make that information publicly available to every buyer on the internet for free. Buyers will be able to make purchasing decisions based on hard numbers related to quality instead of just reading random info on forums.
Manufacturers would then be exposed in regards to their quality (or lack thereof) and they would also see how they stack up against the competition. I believe this would then cause an uptick in attention to quality. The component manufacturers will also be exposed (lipert, etc).
The challenge is getting enough responses to the surveys to cover so many manufacturers.
