Dealers have fixed overhead costs for their location, their office staff, salespeople, and maintenance, as well as the financing costs for their inventory and advertising and other sales and marketing expenses. They need to cover all these costs in addition to what they pay the manufacturer for the RV or they will go out of business.
Want to save money, then buy a used RV where the seller has none of this overhead and has already paid for the depreciation expenses year by year. You have to invest more time than if you simply walk onto a dealer's lot and find a salesperson but you can save tens of thousands of dollars.
Trading in a vehicle is always the easiest and most costly approach. Sell it yourself and with Craigslist the advertising is free. You are likely to get an extra couple of thousand dollars or more and easily compensation for your time.
Not being one of the 0.1 percent of Americans that have had their wealth double over the past 15 years I am not inclined to spend more than is absolutely necessary. Maybe that is why we have zero debt of any kind.
