Comment: Buying a Camper Trailer
Submitted: Sunday, Dec 22, 2013 at 16:48
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Member - Noel M5
Hello all we own Heaslip trailer love it,but want to sell it to a friend hard to set a price it's in good nick and it's 2005 model,looks like rob and Judy have closed so what's it worth?
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Reply By: allein m - Sunday, Dec 22, 2013 at 17:40
Sunday, Dec 22, 2013 at 17:40
one site i just looked at is ring up local insurance company and say you are buying one and what is the aceptable value for so you can insure it
The depreciation is at least as much as for cars and probably more. Also a trailers used value is based on the low end of the typical sale price new and not the MSRP. The MSRP is really useless in most cases and you shouldn't try to figure out the used value from it. Here's an example of what I mean.
MSRP - $25,000
Sale Price - $17,500
3 Yr Depreciation ~ 30%
3 Yr Old Used Value ~ $17,500 x 0.7 = $12,250
So in this case which is similar to my trailer after just 2 years the trailer is "worth" less than half of the MSRP.
also do some surfing of used campers and see what the going prices are
but it boils down to two basic things in the end what you want for it and what the buyer wants to pay you both have to be able to walk away happy so work out a price you would be happy with and start negotiations
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