Wow Pop Ups are expensive!
Honestly, we don't camp a whole lot anymore with all the kids activities and my work schedule. Since the camper sits most of the time, while the caulking goes bad, I got sick of paying for the labor c...
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Mike Up wrote:
........Can't believe that these makers are pricing these pop ups out of existence.
gheicher wrote:
My friend, who is an executive in the pop-up manufacturing business, states that pups are very difficult to build. Many more separate parts than a TT plus needs complicated lift system. That plus the decreasing volume of pups now being sold, just exacerbates the situation.
Hindsight is a great thing so in looking back on my own experience thinking I could just replace our travel trailer with an inexpensive used popup for occasional use I'm convinced now my mistake was in not choosing some sort of small hard wall trailer. In my own defense though I did make an effort, taking an out of town trip to dealer who had a sizeable stock of R-Pod trailers, but boy were they expensive, even used ones were 3x what I paid for the Coleman Yuma I eventually did buy. I also tried to find a hard wall Coleman Tacoma that was produced for just one model year but they're very rare and any that do exist are priced far more than they're worth, at least to me. I also visited the nearby distributor for ALiner, but again even well used ones were way beyond what I was willing to spend, ergo I ended up with a popup. It was a conundrum to be sure so I understand fully the OP's predicament.
