Trailer demand and prices
Been looking since last year for a bigger trailer to fit our family. Remember seeing some and didn't act fast enough and they were gone last year. Thought this year might be different. I passed on ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
Manufacturers are still not producing at normal rates, lots of material shortages right now putting a squeeze on new units being available for the demand and that pushes the prices up.
How much do you think the above will add to the cost of a new RV?
Prior to Covid you could find that OSB on sale for $4.99 and right around $7.00 anytime/anywhere. The $3.78 2X2 was @ $1.29. Not expected to drop anytime soon. A lot of steel items such as concrete mesh and rebar are going to become scarce if not impossible to find, and that will ripple to anything else made of steel fast. Anything containing silicone or polymers are going to go through the roof in price and have already begun to do so. Paper, paint, caulk, you name it.
I heard from a local RV dealer that within 60 days he was told to expect to get nothing for the foreseeable future due to the RV Industry grinding to a halt due to shortages and astronomical material prices. Nada/Zilch/0 incoming inventory.
If you take that OSB price as an example, that is @ a 400% increase. Is anyone going to pay $75,000.00 for a $15,000.00 stick and tin trailer? Everything in one from the frame to the plastic trim is going to be affected by shortages and the resulting price increases.
With the government spending money like water, and attacking the energy sector, you can count on a huge market correction soon, if not a full blown depression. It's going to make 2008/09 and Covid both look like a church picnic. Buying RV's will be the last thing on folks minds when they're standing in line for a bowl of soup. This is what folks voted for, hope they enjoy it.
This is unsustainable.
