Payment of new Camper ordered

Never paid up front - Car, RV, even a House.

ependydad wrote:
I put $5,000 down. A month or so later my dealer called on a Sunday afternoon asking or another $20k- I politely declined. I went to my PDI and paper signing with a cashiers check.

However, I have heard of the situation where high volume dealers do want payment ahead of time. In each case, nothing bad has happened- just seems weird to me. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable with it.

They may ask, but all they will is a deposit until the unit is delivers and a has passed PDI! They will jump to fix items to get the dollars in the bank.
Real good dealers will not ask.

Thanks for all the input at this point I am not sure what I will do

I put $5,000 down. A month or so later my dealer called on a Sunday afternoon asking or another $20k- I politely declined. I went to my PDI and paper signing with a cashiers check.

However, I have heard of the situation where high volume dealers do want payment ahead of time. In each case, nothing bad has happened- just seems weird to me. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable with it.

I sent you a private message, but we bought our RV from a wholesaler and paid the entire amount up front. Actually we did this on the last TWO we purchased. No problems at all. Highlife4me1 is corrent that this is common when purchasing from a wholesaler. We feel we saved about $8,000 over the price we got from any dealer and were even able to have some items custom built dealing directly with the factory.

The last TT I bought new was a factory order and I only put down a $200 deposit until it arrived and I inspected it.

Never made a deposit on either new camper we've purchased. However several family members have done business with the same small, local company and there's an established level of trust. Matter of fact, we've done all PDI's at our seasonal site at the campground after delivery. I never even saw our current camper until it was delivered to our site. Financing was finalized after that, all online. These wonderful folks will do repairs and warranty work on site too. I guess loyalty has it's advantages.

Ordered 3 new - down payment of about 5% only ever!

In one case we were financing part of it and the bank would NEVER make payment until they would have paperwork within 3 days.

Deposit only, pay balance after inspection. If the dealer doesn't agree go somewhere else.

Deposit only; the more you owe at time of delivery, the more control you retain until you take posession