It failed miserably for us. The dealer's "pricing specialist" said he'd price it at $28.5K and thought we'd get at least $24K. They agreed to fix a number of small problems once we agreed on what each would cost.
We never got any quotes on the fixes and the dealer denied ever having agreed.After about 10 weeks, we got a call saying there'd been an offer of $14,500. I reluctantly counter-offered $16K and it was accepted. I got a check for $15.4K, after the agreed seller's fee of $600 was deducted.
I wrote a really critical review of the transaction, including the name of the dealership, on either this forum or iRV2. A couple of weeks later the owner of the dealership called and said they'd "found some irregularities in the sale" and asked us to stop by.
The owner confessed that he'd bought the rig himself, fixed up the problems and sold it on. He offered to split the difference from $16K less the cost of the fixes, which he claimed had cost $2.7K to fix. I challenged that by saying he had charged himself the full retail on replacement parts and full labor costs for putting the in, when I was sure he'd got the parts at wholesale and his staff had done the fixes in otherwise slack time.
After a lot of arguing, we finally settled on an additional payment to us. I agreed not to reveal the cost details, the name of the dealership or of his staff. We were glad to get some of what we were due and it was about what I'd originally expected. It made our 4 seasons' use work out to $4000 a season in depreciation cost from what we'd paid for it originally, which meant we'd paid around $600 per trip just for the depreciation!
Frank Damp, DW - Eileen, pet - female Labrador (10 yrs old), location Anacortes, WA, retired RVers (since Dec 2014)
