Scotty, is the Flair SOLD or does it have a SALE PENDING? If it's Pending, keep watching it. I watched one for a long time and it went back and forth. I made 2 offers on it. They didn't want to deal with me and marked it as Pending. I told them I was prepared to offer more, but they wouldn't budge. They ended up selling it over 2 months later for a few thousand less than my top price would have been had they wanted to counter my offer. Luckily I found THE motorhome for us by then and felt relieved about not buying that one.
DH and I think they don't care if they sell an rv or not. They make their money on the $290 checkout fee that prospective buyers pay to give themselves an out if there are too many things wrong after the rv has been checked by their staff. They don't fix anything, and they already know what's wrong because they've checked them out before. By the time they sell one they've make a lot of money doing the check for several prospective buyers who backed out because there were too many things not being repaired. The one I was looking at was a trade-in and owned by PPL, so there was not another owner who didn't want to come down in price, it was all PPL's dealings. My guess is that when I was getting close to their ideal price they marked it Pending to get me to stop so they could keep making money off a few other people. BTW, the $290 fee is optional and I marked it off the bid page. When they saw I wasn't going to pay I think that is another reason they didn't want to waste anymore time with me.
They say they sell 1000 rv's every year. So for each rv they sell they can collect that $290 checkout fee several times. If they collect it 5 times on 1000 rv's, that's nearly $1.5 million in pure profit each year and they haven't sold a thing!
The sales people who show you the vehicles are very nice. But they put their hard-sell guys on the phone to work the deals. When you call back to talk to a salesman about finalizing a deal the person who helped you is OUT OF THE OFFICE. They will be out all day, or the rest of the week. Then they will tell you how the salesmen don't work on commission so you will talk to their closer.
Although we are perfectly happy with the outcome of our dealings with PPL, I still have bad feelings for their setup. I know 2 other people whose PPL experience was almost identical to mine. They do have a good website for browsing and getting an idea what you can find though. I'm sure there have been a lot of people who had a perfectly wonderful PPL experience and goody for them.
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