Think car dealers are bad....try RV dealers

[Kamakiri]

Read about my recent experience here:

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/15930963.cfm

[Celt]

Ew! :yuck: Stuff like that is what keeps me from replacing my ten year old S-10. If they aren't trying to pawn off *rusted-busted-can't be trusted's* on you, then a group of salespeople will merge on you like Piranhas.

[bgadow]

I see ads like what you saw all the time; I always thought these guys would have detailed their used stuff pretty good. Figure, they probably got them for almost nothing, maybe less than $1000 a piece. They could afford to sink a little in the vehicle to make it presentable. Bait & switch, sure, but what are you gonna do, let the things sit there on your lot for 10 years?! They would be best off just selling them as-is for the first $1500 cash. Even rotted out thats not a bad deal for something you can live in!

[redcoates7]

For you New England guys:

"...I'm your Number One man, from USRV..."

Marty the RV guy riding a horse around his parking lot singing. Weirdest commercial ever.

Heck of a business too, as most of the expensive RVs on display at a lot are on consignment from the factory...the dealership doesn't even OWN the stock!

[SPL db]

Same thing happend to my wife and I when we were in the market
for a camper... went looking for used ones, salesman showed us a
few (they didin't seem to be as bad as what you saw), then told us,

"What if I showed you a new camper cheaper than these used ones?"

I said, "You have my attention!"... the old bait & switch!

Long story short, we bought the new camper...

Scott

[Kamakiri]

What didja get? :)

[SPL db]

We bought ours in 2003, sooooo... it's a 2003 Four Winds 27BH...

The 27 meaning - 27ft, the BH meaning - bunk house (has bunk
beds in the back).

Got a great deal on this model, the lot was having a sale on them
plus a rep from Four Winds was on site as well giving out even better
deals! :thmbsp:

We're going camping this weekend, maybe I'll take some photos of
the rig we got and post them next week...

Scott

[Sandy G]

My sister gleefully watched a snotty dealer in Knoxville get taken down a couple of notches.She has this friend who goes to all the big horse shows, she's from Atlanta. Her husband...Well, let's just say he'd be at home in "The Sopranos"...if you catch my drift... Anyhow, they were at this horse show, & the woman's $450K motorhome decides to be contrary. Wouldn't run. My sister & the gal go into a big dealer in West Knoxville, not too far from where Terry lives. They explain their plight, & the salesman is quite curt w/them. Then they talk to the boss, & he's not a lot better. Then, Mrs Atlanta Soprano gets on her phone, makes a couple calls, & the boss gets paged. A few minutes later,he comes back w/his tail between his legs, he offers them the use of any motorhome on the lot-& he had a BUNCH of the ones where the sides pop out. The sick one is towed in, all under the watchful eyes of 2 "torpedos" sent up from Atlanta to make sure Mrs Atlanta didn't get any more sass. My sister said it sure was fun to watch them people falling all over themselves when they found out WHO Mrs Atlanta was...-Sandy G.

[philo426]

I guess when Tony Soprano wants something he gets something or someone is in for a srerious hurtin'

[Sandy G]

Funny thing is, I've run across a few of these people in my life, & invariably, they are nice, polite types w/impeccable manners-NOT the loud obnoxious thugs you see on TV. My sister befriended the daughter of one when she was in college-invited her to go to my sister's presentation ball-and you'd thought we'd asked this gal to go to the coronation of the queen. THEY really thought it was a bigger deal than we did, I think..I escorted her, she was an extremely skinny little Italian girl who smoked like a freight train. I didn't much wanna do it, because it meant wearing a tuxedo on a Saturday...Saturdays are SACRED, dammit, & it oughta be against the law to have to get dressed up ruin a perfectly good Saturday...Women put big store in crapola like that, so you just got growl, grumble, & go w/it-Sandy G.