Monday, November 21, 2011

Used Pop-Up Campers in Excellent Condition Sold at Fair Market Value

!±8± Used Pop-Up Campers in Excellent Condition Sold at Fair Market Value

For the regular campers on short budgets, there is no better way to visit the wilds than in pop-up campers. These brand new pop-up campers and used campers for sale are sold in reasonable prices. You can find a variety of used pop-up campers in excellent conditions sold by their owners following the fair calculations set by NADA, but some are sold even lower than the standard depreciation guidelines for personal reasons. In these difficult times, people are selling off their properties more than they are buying and for those who love the outdoors but wary of spending too much, used pop-up campers can give you more for less.

Protecting the consumer's investments is a rare practice in the business industry, most of the time the entrepreneurs are more concerned of their return of investments (ROI) than how much should the buyer spend based on the fair market value. There are too many factors that needed to be included before the product is made available to the public. Middlemen, advertisement costs, permits and licenses, transportation costs, maintenance costs among others are just some of the reasons why many used campers are sold at insane prices.

This is where pop-up campers that are sold directly by their owners have extreme advantages. They don't need to be;
Brought to the yard to be displayed, thereby no maintenance costs are needed to be added to the price. No middlemen, transactions transpire between buyers and sellers exclusively. Advertisements are paid for by the owners until the products are sold. Prices are often advertised and based on fair market value. Permits and licenses are minimal and shouldered by the site so there will be zero effects on the prices. Tax payables for land area and property used to display the campers for sale is non-existent. The site expects no commissions from sales, so forget about blown-up prices.You might want to ask, how can I make sure the product is well-maintained? There are several ways to make sure that you get your money's worth on the pop-up campers for sale available on display. Here are some of the things you need to arm yourselves to ensure that quality is not sacrificed.
Ask the seller to enumerate all the accommodations, tools and other inclusions of their campers for sale. Bring the list to the meeting place. Check the conditions of those on the list. Check the under carriage for signs of rusts and imperfections. Ask the seller's permission to tow the used pop-up camper using your truck. Feel the camper on the road. Fold and unfold the camper. Take pictures and schedule the next meeting. Asked for second opinion. Don't forget that it's your money on the line so turn-down the deal nicely if you don't feel comfortable.There are choices of pop-up campers and other types of campers for sale available on the site like truck campers, travel trailers, fifth-wheels and sport trailers offered on very affordable prices to choose from, so take a moment to shop around.


Used Pop-Up Campers in Excellent Condition Sold at Fair Market Value

Fender Jagmaster Purchase

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Used Camper Values

!±8± Used Camper Values

First of all brace yourself. What you are about to read is coming from a lifetime of RV and Camper sales, and knowing what dealers do! What I have to tell is more than likely not what you want to hear but it is the truth. The reason I am writing this article is to change the way people are mislead and hopefully start a movement in the RV industry. It needs to happen, if not then I worry for the reputation the RV Dealers and the RV industry in general will get.

Let me start by explaining how it starts.

The dealers are the only ones that buy RV's and campers at wholesale! No matter the ads you read or the place you buy from you can't buy an RV at wholesale price. They then have to pay to have the camper shipped to them. At this point they have the cost of the camper and delivery to start from.

For this example we will use the popular Wildwood 26TBSS. Lets say that a dealer could buy one for 15,000. They then need to pay to have it shipped to them for 500 bucks. Now they have 15,500 invested in this camper. If its a reputable dealer then usually have a tech that goes through the camper and will check it over top to bottom, front to back and side to side for damage, imperfections and to make sure everything works. There is a lot involved in this, trust me. This adds to the price of the camper about 750 bucks. After everything lets say they have 16,500 in this camper they will mark it up enough to make money on the camper and cover the difference between what they say they are going to give you and what they actually do. For example they would put a starting price of 24,000 for this camper.

You then start the haggle process and lets say you bought this brand new for 21,500 and didn't like it after the first year. You go to trade your camper in and you know you just bought it for 21,500 so you think that you would be able to get at least 19,000 for it used right? Well why would they give you 19,000 for something that they could buy brand new for 15,000?

Let me keep going. Now you want to trade up to a bigger camper and this one they bought new for 18,000 so their mark up is more, it's sitting on the lot for 28,000, a 10,000 mark up. The dealers know that you are going to want close to what you paid for your camper so they have to mark up the new ones to give you that much so you feel warm and fuzzy. They say oh we'll give you book value for that no problem.

Here is the catch, they bought it for 18,000. sold it to you for 28,000 and told you they were giving you 19,000 for your used camper. In this deal they know that they could buy your used camper new for 15,000 so they are not going to give more than 13,000 for your used camper value. They told you they were giving you 19,000 so the difference has to come out of the mark up of 10,000 which leaves them buying yours for 13,000 and making 3,000 on the deal. then they will sell yours for 17,000 and make another 3,000 off of your used camper. Not a bad day at the office.

Please don't get me wrong I understand that the dealers have to make money. I would just like them to stop playing the numbers game. In the end it makes the RV industry look bad. I hope this helps when trying to find your used camper value or when you are going to trade it in.

In the end it's all a numbers game. I just don't like the fact that people are mislead to feel good about something but this is the way it is in all big-ticket retail sales.

In closing I have one thing I want you to think about and hopefully it change the way you look at used camper trade value.

If a dealer is going to give you book value for your used camper, they will have to sell it to someone else for more than its worth to make money on it. If they are the type of dealer that is helping people make bad decisions on over priced campers then they are probably helping you make one.


Used Camper Values

Saving Charmin Tissue


Twitter Facebook Flickr RSS



Français Deutsch Italiano Português
Español 日本語 한국의 中国简体。







Sponsor Links