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?

Mike Up wrote:
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.

We'd owned a couple of popups, a hybrid, then a K-Z Spree family travel trailer and over the years when our boys were younger did a lot of traveling and camping, mostly across the US. Once they hit high school commitments had an impact and eventually it came to the point where neither one had the time or interest to camp with us any longer. After 6 yrs with the Spree we decided to sell it as it didn't make much sense dragging around a triple bunk bed trailer my wife & I only used occasionally yet which was continuing to depreciate in value day by day and would still incur ongoing maintenance & operating costs. I anticipated we'd take a break for a few years before getting back in but that first winter without any camper had me thinking about a small used popup I could use myself a few times each season when I might be in the mood for a little camping. I found a 10 yr old Coleman Yuma in great shape and spent the early spring setting it up to my liking. As it turned out it was the perfect solution - only a few thou to buy, very little expense to outfit, a significant increase in gas mileage when towed with my truck vs towing a full height travel trailer, and I could once again park it in my heated workshop. Win - Win ... or so I thought. As it turned out my wife surprised me by deciding to go along a number of times and it was at that point we both decided that a tent trailer just wasn't going to cut it any more. I sold it for more than I paid for it and bought the 19' couple's trailer we now have and are much happier for it ... however, the downside is I'm now back into the significantly higher costs of owning and maintaining a dual axle travel trailer vs a simple single axle popup. Sad for me to say because a popup just doesn't work for us but there's little question in my mind that a popup offers FAR greater bang for the buck than does any travel trailer ... as long as you can tolerate the tenting. Regardless of the many reasons you've listed as to why this $1600 more than you were willing to spend on a popup is a show stopper I still believe you're being short sighted in your assessment. That's of course entirely up to you ... I just don't agree. Good luck. :B