Buying an RV from Dealer vs Private Owner

powderman426 wrote:
I know that auto dealers often take cars to auction that they feel could be a problem child. So does anyone know if the same applies to rv dealers, or do they sell them all good or bad off their lot?

Depends on the management. I have seen dealers including at least one Camping World, with absolute trash on their lot. Stuff that only a fool would buy, delaminate that Helen Keller could see, ceilings falling down from leaking etc.... OTOH, we noticed while shopping at the bigger dealers in Florida, that they tended to put the junk out back, and found ways to dispose of it. There appeared to be a secondary market of local smaller shops that refurbished some of the rougher stuff. We stopped at a few that were based in cheap industrial areas, and had a handful of rigs that they had gotten cheap, and fluffed up. Some were good buys, others were carefully polished turds.