Purchase Price advice on 2 yr old New TT
I've run into a 'deal' I'm seriously considering. A lot has a 2012 New (as I assume unused) TT. MSRP is ~$23.5K, asking was >$18K and he is willing to take ~$13K with my pup trade in (about $1,500)....
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loulou57 wrote:
Been There!!!!
The most important question you can ask is...has anyone slept in this unit?
The vehicle can be new, never registered but...he could have lent it out.
We got caught, unit was new never registered. Looked good. After we took ownership, paid for it we brought it home. As I was cleaning it to load it up I found an onion, cheese that was smeared and kleenex stuffed behind mattress.
We loved the trailer. After we talked to the dealer he said it was never registered, it was new. I asked him directly....has anyone slept in it. We got a yes but to this day no apology. We insisted on brand new mattresses. Being new to this we were naive we figured we were stuck with it, he had the money. We will never trust the dealer again.
It has full warranty as it should.
Question the dealer, check every inch and if your gut instinct is to walk
then run!
H'mm never thought of this one. Good point and good heads up to ask. Thanks for sharing.
While for us it may not have been a deal breaker that it was slept in, BUT, trust is something once lost is never coming back. I agree with you on your other post comments. If the camper was set up as a show trailer and potentially used a week etc, then declare it. The buyer is going in eyes wide open informed and may still very well take it and the dealers reputation is intact. We did buy a show PU this way, was delcared, never titled and we got a good deal. But it was delcared.
When we bought our F350 used, it was a lease turn in. I went all over that truck as I knew it was used and the mileage was just under 30K. The 4 main tires all had even wear for 30K miles. The dealer made a big point that they went over the whole truck by their service group and even put new brake pads on the front and the tires where all good.
Well they got me. A month later I crawl under the truck, dang... the spare is shot. OK on a truck with this many low miles on it from new how does one get a spare that had 70K miles on it...? An 18" load range E LT tire has no problem being $200 plus to replace. That dealer lost me for life over a spare tire. Learned from it and I will always stick my head under there the next time.... But not from that dealer.
