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Originally Posted by Ken / Claudia
When purchasing anything with a trade in remember, retail and wholesale prices. Normal dealers will want to sell retail and give wholesale for a trade in. Wholesale dealers will give wholesale prices for trade in. Either way I want to deal on equal terms. Retail v retail or wholesale v wholesale.
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I can provide a good example of this. When we bought our Cougar from a local dealer, we checked around from other dealers. Found one that was about $4000 less on the RV, but the trade in was about $3500 less than the local dealer - so we could have saved $500, which didn't included driving about 400 miles different to get it. Then my concern with local service
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Interesting comment by that wholesale dealer - we were trading in a Sunset Trails Reserve RV, which is built by Crossroads RV, which is owned by THOR industries. It was a nice model, lots of features and options. His comment was very critical of Crossroads, and THOR for making 'poor quality' RVs. As you can tell, we bought a Cougar, which is built by Keystone, and yeah, owned by THOR. I didn't see a difference, and 90% of the components are the same.