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...
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kohai wrote:Chris Bryant wrote:
I will again give a link to the non-profit RV Consumers Group- a 501(c)3 organization-
http://rv.org
The problem with this site is that it is only for those that pay for it. This protects the manufacturers because their dirty laundry isn't public information. The other problem I have is with their survey. I filled it out, but it never really got into questions that quantify how many manufacturing problems I had on my trailer and what type of problems they were. Too many of their questions were subjective. A lot of people on these forums will give a long laundry list of problems they had with their RV and then say they love their RV (consumer satisfaction would rate high but quality would rate low). Without asking the questions in the right way, it can mask problems.
I have seen review sites/companies that are too general in their reviews or too general in their analysis. For work once there was a large research company (well known) that had done an analysis on a very specific set of specialized products. The white paper report from them was something like $500. I decided we could use the information and I bought it and it turned out to be nothing more than product specifications that the manufacturer freely supplied.
It would be great if rv.org is thorough but without paying it is hard to know and as a newbie it would be hard to know how good rv.org is.
I would be curious to see their review for my brand to see how accurate it is. But, since I already have the trailer I'm not going to pay for it to find out what I have already learned.
Maybe we need a survey on here of how useful people have found rv.org (if they have used it). Anybody have experience?
I bought their report for mine - I was highly unimpressed.
