Downsizing 5W - dealer trade in or sell it ourselves? - RV-Dreams Community Forum

retread · RV-Dreams Family Member

Downsizing 5W - dealer trade in or sell it ourselves?

Luvglass · RV-Dreams Family Member

Any time you insert another party in the buy / sell arrangement the price has to be adjusted for that party.

If you sell to a dealer you get less and if you buy from a dealer you pay more. To a lot of people that is OK though, to avoid the additional work of selling yourself, ie advertising, showing, paper work, etc. The same on the buying side, dealer prep, warranty, etc.

On the flip side though, there can be considerable profit to be enjoyed by selling your self and buying privately.

To each his own!

azrving · RV-Dreams Family Member

Sell it yourself! biggrin

Dealer will want retail for his unit but will only offer wholesale for your unit. I never trade any big ticket items and have never had any problems selling my stuff. I don't usually buy anything from dealers due to the sales tax, private party sales have no sales tax here in AZ and back in SC. Not the same in all states though. confuse

60srocker · RV-Dreams Community Member

azrving wrote:

Sell it yourself! Dealer will want retail for his unit but will only offer wholesale for your unit. I never trade any big ticket items and have never had any problems selling my stuff. I don't usually buy anything from dealers due to the sales tax, private party sales have no sales tax here in AZ and back in SC. Not the same in all states though.

Alabama has sales tax on private sales, but, vehicles excepted, they rarely ever get the sales tax money, because they can't identify it. Vehicles, however, must be titled, and they collect the sales tax then, unless you can prove that you've already paid it.

To stay on topic, no one should ever do a trade-in. Depending on the value of the two items, you will lose hundreds or thousands of dollars on the deal. It's no big deal to put a listing on Craigslist to sell anything, and there is little or no cost to do so.