wholesaler price vs. local dealer price

Unless you are a retail trailer DEALER you cannot purchase wholesale. Dealers like RV Wholesalers or RV Direct talk a lot about wholesale but in fact are just another dealership selling RETAIL to their customers. Their big advantage is volume business and a much smaller stick n brick facility compared to their total sales. SOME of the large dealers can (not necessarily will) match them im prices but not many. Best way to find out is to ask and be prepared to walk away from any dealer who tells you they won't honor warranty unless you buy from them. You likely don't WANT those folks working on your RV anyway or they'd be looking to make money from doing the warranty work. If they can't fix things in one try they'll try to get OUT of doing warranty work because factory will pay for a repair only once.

If ANY dealer will repair only units they sold it defeats the entire CONCEPT of an RV which means traveling with them. If you travel with them the chances are MUCH greater you'll need repairs done FAR away from wherever you purchased the unit so those dealers are actually only wanting to sell you a "cabin in the woods" not an RV.

Good luck / Skip