Kayteg1 wrote:
I was trying to sell my Lance in San Francisco area for 1/2 what NADA gave it.
Camper was clean, everything work (beside generator having electrick glitch), but exterior decals faded, what should be expected at 18 years of age.
NO INQUIRES , so I decided to use the interior for my Sprinter conversion and parted the Lance.
Yep, that sounds more like it. NADA has always been inflated, IMO. I have sold 4 RVs and none of them fetched anywhere near it. My Lance 1030 was immaculate, loaded, and never even approached what NADA said, and that was without adding the options on the NADA guide, which inflates the prices even more.
I was doing some research last night on depreciation in RVs and truck campers, and came across a post from an RV dealer who had been selling them 30 years or something. He said his advice and rule of thumb to people buying was to take 80% of the low NADA value as a fair indicator of the true value, and to use that as a guide for offers. I think a lot of these 3 year old campers are priced $10K too high. They're trying to avoid the depreciation hit, but they're not selling.
