Seller's and Unreasonable Pricing

thiczle wrote:
I am new to the RV world, i have not yet purchased one yet. After reading these posts i am more confident about my small budget of $10,000 for a used class C. I do have a reasonable expectation of buying an older 2000 model. I see the dealers are very high priced for me $50 to $80,000 for a 2004 model in my opinion is just ridiculous... So I am curious if my budget is small or unreasonable? I am in no rush to buy, so if i need to wait and build up my budget i will. I do search craigs list alot, and i have been on rv trader also. I did see a 2002 27 ft class C for sale up the block from me, but the guy wanted $22000. i do not want to finance, so even though he said it was negotiable i didnt offer because i figure he would have said no anyway. so what do you guys think?

$10K is going to be pretty light to say the least for a used Class C unless you are willing to look back into the early 1990's or even older.

AGE really trumps the price, if you want something newer than 15yrs old you ARE going to pay the price. Not saying that "deals" can't be had but they are going to be very difficult to find and when you do find one there will be a good chance that something major is wrong with it.

Buyer Be Aware is a real good rule of thumb..

Do be very careful of any dirt cheap listings that seem too good to be true along with heart breaking sob stories of a death or family member was transferred out of the states..

Step away from ANY offers which include prepaying in full, paypal, Western Union, Walmart green card, prepaid credit/debit cards or any other method of getting money upfront or quick to the seller before you physically can touch it..

All of the scammers use these methods and you will be out of your money with no way to recover it.

You WANT to directly go and physically see and touch the RV BEFORE HANDING ANY MONEY OVER.. Don't fall for the must prepay shipping to your location or the seller using any sort of "agent" whether it is a shipping agent, escrow agent or third party seller agent..

Scammers ARE looking for folks like you that have a small limited "budget" and are very quick to take full advantage of your fear of losing out on the deal of a century..

At $10K you are going to be buying a much older RV, you are going to be willing to either fix a lot by yourself or be willing to pay a mechanic or other RV repair techs so you will need to take that into consideration. RVs are not cheap and finding one that doesn't have bunches of expensive repairs needed will be a challenge.

You may wish to consider finding a good mechanic that you trust to review all the vehicle mechanical portions of the RV.. RVs sit a lot so it is not unusual to find a 20+ yr old RV with only 20K-50K miles, but from setting so much, things like hoses, brake lines, fuel lines can and do rot/rust out.. Brakes and brake calipers can and do get stuck from setting..