Members helping members

[mbulriss]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Gregory OConnor"
wrote:
> I do believe that if a seller has confident claims about the
> condition of his product, he should offer a 'Second $5,000.00
> warranty' (seller pays second 5G's of a repair within the first year

Greg,

Nice idea, but it doesn't seem to work at all in this market. When I
was selling Stagecoach 2 years ago, not only did I price it about $5k
under any comparable units on the market then, but I also offered the
exact kind of open-ended second $$ warranty that you suggest - no
questions asked (specifying only that any work to be done by someone I
trust to know what he was doing - namely Ralph. I had worked the deal
with Ralph to pay him directly, up to the limit of the warranty
amount.) No one else was offering such a deal, but I was confident of
what I had. It had *absolutely* no effect on the sale. The market at
that time seemed like it was full of folks that thought they were
going to be able to get an excellent PT40 for $30K or less!! Ask
Harvey about those people! I think a lot of lookers today are looking
for the excellent shape FC for $10K! Those buyers don't understand
the product and confuse these things with trashed out 20 year old
plastic palaces. Those excellent $10K buses don't exist. If you want
a re-builder project, start with a shell and have at it. You'll be
busy and upside down in a re-builder forever. Stagecoach sold for
what I expected, to a guy that owned several other older buses and who
understood the value of what he was getting.

Mike Bulriss
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Gregory OConnor"
wrote:
>
> I guess I look at things different, being self employed and one job
> away from being 'layed-off'. A big sell point for me with dropping
> over 100G's on an old bus was the total cost is less than the first
> year depreciation on a new higher end fleetwood. I do believe that
> if a seller has confident claims about the condition of his product,
> he should offer a 'Second $5,000.00 warranty' (seller pays second
> 5G's of a repair within the first year or buyback). There is no
> mystery as to why rigs dont sell. Too many sellers view the Market
> value as an average of all the Asking Prices. Too many sellers want
> to recover cost of maintenance and upkeep and never deduct utility
> and use. (Upgrade is a Date sensitive term for upkeep)
>
> Members are also buyers
>
> Gregory O'Connor
> 94PtRomolandCa
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Lawrence"
> wrote:
> >
> > Financed mine with our Credit Union...no problem.
> > Bob Lawrence
> > 84 PT36
> > Tacoma, Wa
> > >
> > > Yeah, makes it hard to sell when the banks don't have a book that
> > goes back beyond 1990.
> > > MH
> > > From: Harvey Lawrence
> > > > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:57 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Members helping members
> >
> > > > Ernie , do you know of any sources of financing an older Blue
> > > bird. A potential buyer of my 84 has that problem.
> > > > Harvey Lawrence 84 pt 40
> >
>