Wow Pop Ups are expensive!

SoundGuy wrote:


Hmmmmm, earlier you said - "The Rockwood Freedom 2280 with shower, toilet, Air Conditioner is $11,400 which is way overpriced. I was expecting no more than $9,800 for all of it." So you were willing to go ahead with this popup purchase for $9,800 but not $11,400, a difference of just $1600? Either way you'd still have payments or have to make up for the difference in cash so other than saying $11,400 is more than this popup is worth why is one a show stopper when the other is not?

Because when the price is more than the camper is worth, you don't pay it. $1600 is 16% of the price it should had been. So that's a mark up of $1600.

I had a limit of how much out of pocket I was willing to spend. That overpricing right there was most of it. Now I have to bite the bullet on advertising expenses to sell my camper. And then add the difference of the selling price of the travel travel, opposed to the higher price of the pop up. Then I have to add in taxes which are also higher since the dealer really doesn't want to take in trades. In Indiana, your trade is subtracted from the selling price, then taxed.

So since the dealer didn't really want a trade (before even seeing my camper) and telling me to sell it on my own and offering a ridiculously low ball offer, forced me into additional sales advertising and tax costs mentioned above.

So the 2280 exceeded what I was willing to spend on that model. I expected to pay a bit more for a slide out model but not at the prices that I was given. So after all was said and done. The overall cost was between $4K and $5K out of my pocket which was unacceptable.

And as I stated, I'm looking at the next 6 years. I also don't expect a good resale on them as I would with a travel trailer, especially in our area where pop ups aren't really wanted.

Everyone here has stated how they sold their pop ups to a third owner, after buying used. I have looked used, they're junk here privately and through dealers. Then dealers who seem to have the most units, are way over priced for junk. It's only reasonable to buy new unless you're a sucker.

Overall costs for the travel trailer per year, as of now, are much lower than what I would end up putting out for one of the pop ups with a slide. The slide out models were a better deal than the 2280. If I'm going to get screwed, I would want it not to be as bad and also get more conveniences. The 2280 was off the board at that price, period. The others, while more reasonable, still made no sense financially for less features and more inconvenience in every way.

Older well kept Travel Trailers hold their resale value here much better than pop ups.