cchorney wrote:
puttd wrote:
One item to add on pricing-- check the ppl website for solds. if you find a similar model,similar age, you have a comp to argue about.
I'm sorry, what is the ppl website? I have been keeping an eye on closed ebay auctions for comparable prices, if that's what you mean.
PPL is a consignment dealer in Houston. It is the only dealer I know of that makes a practice of posting, for a while after the sale, the price at which a unit sold. I think they do this as guidance for their customers in setting asking prices, as they don't like to take consignments at prices that prevent sales.
What a RV sells for in Houston may not be relevant to the market in Florida, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Boston. Each market is different, supply vs demand, incentives to sell, but at least Houston is far enough away from major retirement and snowbird areas that not too many "distress" sales depress prices from a national norm.
I know NADA price guides are supposed to reflect regional markets, and while they do for cars, the RV market is not big enough to produce reliable price information, and you are probably looking at depreciation tables applied to original prices, with inflation adjustments. The numbers also may the same nationally, failing to catch the reality that used RVs might sell for a whole lot more in the Northeast or Northwest than the market prices in SW desert retirement communities, Texas, or South Florida.
