Freaking RV manufacturers

way2roll wrote:

LouLawrence wrote:
That's nonsense. If it was true that not paying MSRP for something made them bad then ever car on the road would be bad as well. Manufacturers and dealers set a high MSRP as the consumer has come to expect a huge discount. The manufacturer and the dealer still make the expected profit when the unit is sold. The consumer simply "feels better" about his amazing negotiating powers!

Right. Competition in the marketplace is what fuels better quality and prices. When we start to see foreign RV's being imported that are better made and cost less US manufacturers will change it's process to compete. Until then it's going to be the status quo of paying for shiny gadgets.

:R

When pigs fly on their own and "man" has completely stopped "climate change".

Business is very complicated, just because there is "competition", does not necessarily mean lower cost, nor does it mean better quality or a combination of both.

Take a good hard look at automobiles, we have plenty of foreign brand names who have dipped their feet into the US market.. If you were correct, the domestic name brands would have 100% perfect builds and be affordable for all.

The truth is even the foreign brands build junk, they ship the junk to us and it is not priced any cheaper than the domestic brand names..

Yes, I have been in different foreign brand autos, lots of shoddy cheap poor workmanship in them and folks here are happier than a pig in mud buying one rather than buying a domestic manufacturer brand.

The company I left over a yr ago had brought in a top manufacturing manager who's credentials included top manager at Honda and Toyota.. Doesn't care one squat about the people, only care was to "maximize the profit $ per square ft of manufacturing space".. Yeah, that IS what you are dreaming about there sir.

If you really think other countries build better and cheaper RVs then perhaps you should start an import company to import them, you should be able to make a huge killing if what you say is true. if they are better then you shouldn't have to service them and if they are cheaper and can sell them for less than domestic built RVs then you should have a booming business model.

Other countries may build and sell RVs cheaper, but consider that the wages, working conditions, hrs, cost of living, cost of materials in those countries are not the same.. They don't work 40hr weeks often working many more hrs, get no paid vacation/sick time, get no raises basically get paid a fraction of our standards considered as poverty..