Do/Did you haggle?

[whoofit]

Still a great deal though no matter. An awesome looking rig if I may say so too.

I think we all kind of forget about how much we paid eventually given enough time and enjoyment in whatever we choose to buy. The one thing I'll remember paying with this purchase is the stinkin' sale tax of nearly a grand. I'll remember that till my dying day.

and every year after that too...lol

[shovelhead]

Whoofit we have/had a nice tax they called Advelorum. Yearly paid at a mill rate like property tax.  They did away with advelorum.  However, older purchases werent grandfathered in.    So the RAM I pay about $275 a year and the Jeep was bought after the tax law was changed my registration is just $25 since the tax was paid upfront. They take the NADA price and access about 7%.  This was to grab up private sales because we didnt pay a tax if bought from a private person.  Dealers love the new law.  Finally trailers RV  are not included so yes you pay a yearly Advelorum.
The 21RBS was slightly over $300 last year. Every year laying out $600 in tax to register my vehicles is one reason I'm changing my legal residence to SD.

[whoofit]

We have an excise tax here. Also a yearly tax that is supposed to go to road maintenance. The new car we got was a $600 bill 2 months after we bought it in addition to the sales tax on the purchase. That goes down like yours does based on book value every year. So they raised the sales tax last year from 5 to 6.25 citing road conditions....where the heck did the excise tax money go then?

Public troughs...gotta love 'em.

[pinstriper]

[p]I don't really want to give the price but we paid less than 16K, new, for the 16DB. It's insured for 23K[/p]

That was a good deal.

[p]Honestly, this is a ridiculous statement. [/p][p]
[/p][p]It was NOT a good deal.[/p][p]
[/p][p]It was a SCREAMING deal.
[/p]

[leslie]

We ordered a custom Camplite 21-BHS with a lot of extras. We placed our order at the end of July and took delivery at the end of October. We originally were told 5-6 weeks was the wait. Not happy about that.

The total price was presented to us. The factory did not itemize the extras. I asked for an itemized list, because the MSRP took my breath away. No luck with that. We went with the complete list of changes we wanted.

Now came the haggling. We negotiated to a point. The finance manager was not there - he went camping - who'd a thought? The salesman talked to him on the phone. I asked to talk to him. I was told he had to run.

The final price was $6,000 below MSRP. I think I could have received a better deal if the finance guy had been there.

Then it came time to discuss the mods I wanted the dealer to do. Some things were added to that list at no extra charge, so that was good. On delivery day, I overheard one of the techs congratulating the salesman on the commission that he earned on our camper. Hmmm...

Our dealer is Sunny Island RV In Illinois.

[solds88]

[p]LL pricing,[/p][p]
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[leslie]

[p]LL pricing,[/p][p]
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James, I checked off the items on the list that I wanted, so I knew where I was there. Then I had another list of things that I wanted that weren't on the list. The salesman had me write what I wanted in the margins. Those items were not itemized in the final MSRP that was presented to me.

[jeeps]

[font size="3"]We bought our 21RBS used, but like new, at CW for under $23,000.  We got them to drop $1,000 off their asking price.  But we don't have that nice warranty that the rest of you got buying new.[/font]

[funpilot]

I got an excellent price on the 28BHS I wanted by getting various dealers to compete for my business.  That required me to be willing to drive a fair distance to the winning dealer if needed.  I was equally successful on the Trailmanor I ended up actually getting so in my experience, the rules for getting the best price are the same in any purchase where pricing is negotiable.  Having said that, there is a difference in the RV industry as compared to the auto industry that we all need to remember.  There are laws that protect auto purchasers in that any dealer that sells the brand you purchased has to provide you service.  That is not the case, I have been told, in the RV industry.  In fact, I was told, and had confirmed by LL, that the non selling dealer can charge the difference to a non customer on a warranty repair between what the factory paid and their normal charge.   Not that it is often done, but there are no laws prohibiting that.

[leslie]

There really aren't many dealers who sell LL products, so that makes it more difficult for us who are buying. I went shopping for a dealer who would provide good service, rather than look for the lowest price. The closest LL dealer is a used car dealer who could not show me their service area. Fortunately, Sunny Island RV prices are competitive, and they will negotiate.

I thought that LL would be expanding their list of dealers with the sale to Thor. That doesn't seem to be happening.

[leslie]

I got an excellent price on the 28BHS I wanted by getting various dealers to compete for my business.  That required me to be willing to drive a fair distance to the winning dealer if needed.  I was equally successful on the Trailmanor I ended up actually getting so in my experience, the rules for getting the best price are the same in any purchase where pricing is negotiable.  Having said that, there is a difference in the RV industry as compared to the auto industry that we all need to remember.  There are laws that protect auto purchasers in that any dealer that sells the brand you purchased has to provide you service.  That is not the case, I have been told, in the RV industry.  In fact, I was told, and had confirmed by LL, that the non selling dealer can charge the difference to a non customer on a warranty repair between what the factory paid and their normal charge.   Not that it is often done, but there are no laws prohibiting that.

Funpilot, it is good to see you here again. Maybe you could join us at one of our meetups. I would love to see your Trailmanor and the mods you are making. I am very interested to hear how things are developing with the hot water heater. It is impossible to have too much hot water!

[whoofit]

Yes it was easy work getting the Rpod dealers working for me. Had a deal semi struck with a guy in OH on one. Very difficult to even see a LL or CL here in New England. We put a deposit on ours without ever seeing it or any other CL/LL in the flesh. Never having laid eyes on the brand before.

That dealer network seems to be shrinking in the Northeast.

[jtelles3993]

Yep, haggled a little. But D&H price was already below MSRP..

[gnies]

I had to drive about 11 hours to get to a livinlite dealer there is none in New Brunswick. When I registred my unit to get a plate they had to call to get Livin Lite added in their system it wasn't there! So I might be one of the few in my province to have a livin lite! I saw a QuickSilver once in a campground in my province but it was plated from Quebec, this is where I bought my unit so maybe it was sold in the same dealer I went to.

[drdave]

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[/p][p]Based on this website anyways.  http://www.seedealercost.com/products/model-options/index/id/13140/productCategorySlug/arall
[/p][/quote]I appreciate that link.   Although they only list 2014 prices I assume 2013 prices were in the same ballpark, so I think I paid invoice for my 2013 leftover in July 2014, so I don't feel I got too badly hosed on my deal at all now.