Is NADA book accurate for any Class C RV?
I have a very nice 31 ft motorhome that I wish to sell. I looked up the NADA value book and priced it at low book without adding any extras. I keep getting the same story from dealers. They claim i...
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"Low book?" Dealers buy at substantially lower than "wholesale" so they have some room to resell it at that price. Did the book carry prices labeled "wholesale" and "trade-in value?"
If you want more, you have to find a retail buyer, and they will be considering a private sale in hopes of getting the RV for something less than the lowest retail prices at dealers.
In any case, NADA and BlueBook values for RVs tend to reflect a standard depreciation scale rather than data collected from actual transactions, as might be done for cars. There are too many different RV models, too few resale transactions for many of those models, to gather useful sales price statistics. So you might be looking at a number far from market realities.
If you want more, you have to find a retail buyer, and they will be considering a private sale in hopes of getting the RV for something less than the lowest retail prices at dealers.
In any case, NADA and BlueBook values for RVs tend to reflect a standard depreciation scale rather than data collected from actual transactions, as might be done for cars. There are too many different RV models, too few resale transactions for many of those models, to gather useful sales price statistics. So you might be looking at a number far from market realities.
