justinlittman
Member
Hi! We are new to the forum - two-time travel trailers owners (currently an EZ Escape E231BH). I’ve really been enjoying the conversations here, so thought I’d reach out to this community for some advice on an RV-related hobby project I’ve been working on recently.
With our kids leaving home, we’ve been thinking about purchasing a smaller trailer. This fall we went up to the Hershey show and found a few models we were interested in, but the prices were a little high, so we decided to just keep an eye on the market.
What we discovered was that it wasn’t so easy to just keep an eye on the market! It was rather time consuming and required repeated visits to online dealership sites and hunting/pecking around their inventory.
I’m a software developer by trade (and by hobby!), so in my spare time I’ve been working on an online tool that searches the inventory of dealers within 25-1000 miles for a specific make or model. It also lets you save your searches (and can send weekly email updates if you want).
I’m using it to keep an eye out for the models I am looking for, and thought it might be a helpful service to offer up to the greater RVing community as well. But before I put further work into it, I’d love some thoughts on it from fellow RV enthusiasts! You can find it here: Search for RVs and trailer trailers from dealers near you.
Specifically, I’d be interested to know:
You can drop your feedback here or email it to me directly at [email protected] (I can compile what I learn and post a summary if that would be of interest).
Thanks all! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
–Justin
With our kids leaving home, we’ve been thinking about purchasing a smaller trailer. This fall we went up to the Hershey show and found a few models we were interested in, but the prices were a little high, so we decided to just keep an eye on the market.
What we discovered was that it wasn’t so easy to just keep an eye on the market! It was rather time consuming and required repeated visits to online dealership sites and hunting/pecking around their inventory.
I’m a software developer by trade (and by hobby!), so in my spare time I’ve been working on an online tool that searches the inventory of dealers within 25-1000 miles for a specific make or model. It also lets you save your searches (and can send weekly email updates if you want).
I’m using it to keep an eye out for the models I am looking for, and thought it might be a helpful service to offer up to the greater RVing community as well. But before I put further work into it, I’d love some thoughts on it from fellow RV enthusiasts! You can find it here: Search for RVs and trailer trailers from dealers near you.
Specifically, I’d be interested to know:
- How did you go about shopping for your last RV?
- Would you have found a tool like this helpful - or not?
- Do you have any thoughts on how I could make this more useful?
You can drop your feedback here or email it to me directly at [email protected] (I can compile what I learn and post a summary if that would be of interest).
Thanks all! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
–Justin