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BeerBrewer
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Sep 21, 2018

RV show Travel Trailer pricing

We attended our first two RV shows in Hersey PA and another near Baltimore over last week. As we expected the pricing at the two shows seemed rather similar. We heard from almost every salesmen at both show say that "these prices are rock bottom". As a general rule is that true? Meaning, I'm sure that someone somewhere can haggle a really low price, but overall where the prices that we saw at the show really "rock bottom" or were they business as usual?

I ask this question because we saw a number of TTs that we liked and we were even tempted to make a purchase, but we didn't. Well since we've gotten home we started looking for "new-ish" (2016 and up) used trailers, similar makes and models to the new ones we saw at the show, and the used trailer pricing isn't that much lower than the what we saw at the show.

The really annoying part in all this we both happen to like two brand new TT models, so finding a used model like them isn't possible and we may have want to buy new. If we do how much off of MSRP can we expect to get? For instance we saw a trailer with a MSRP of $30,500 selling for about $24,000, plus almost $2000 for delivery, dealer prep and a battery. Is charging for delivery and dealer prep normal in this industry? Frankly it really really rubs me the wrong way, almost feels like a "scam".