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ecksdude
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Aug 04, 2015

Deposit on a Travel Trailer?

What is the customary deposit to put down on a TT when ordering one from the factory through a dealer?

I've been working through CW, and at first I was asked for a $5000 deposit.

Later (negotiations still ongoing through email exchange) she said a $3000 deposit would be fine since that's the max limit they could charge on a credit card and I wasn't physically in the store.

Now that the negotiations are (more or less) completed, I'll be going into the store later this week to finalize the order. I'm anticipating them asking for $3-5000 for a deposit and wondering it this is normal.

$3000 is more than 10% of the final price of the trailer, by the way.