Have the values dropped even more on older birds?

[Adria Haynes]

I agree with you 100%. I'm not suprised to see SOME depreciation,
but I just thought seeing comperable mid 30k busses last year look
like they were down to mid 20k this year was MUCH more than I
expected. It just really caught me off guard and I was curious if I
was seeing things that weren't there or if there really was some
kind of market crash in our midst.

Mine's a NA. Thanks for cheering me up about that too.

It just seems that at the current rate, the 80 vintage birds will be
going for like 12k in a few years - which I don't understand since
ones from the 70's were still above that last year.

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Hohnstein"
<MHOHNSTEIN@w...> wrote:
> I have discussed this subject many times over the years with
friends and colleagues. There is no way to build equity in a motor
vehicle unless you talking collectables.
> A motor home is a motor vehicle and 99% of the time motor vehicles
depreciate due to use and ageing. Consider SOBs, don't take long
for the new to wear off those critters, Birds lose luster too.
Saving grace of a bird is you can keep fixing on it and it won't
bend or break due to use, but it's still a motor vehicle. If you
have a turbo it's better as it is a tough sell on a NA. Gotta
remember the mfrs are throwing incentives at end users to keep
selling their wares, that hurts the value of used equipment of all
kinds.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adria Haynes
> To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:00 PM
> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Have the values dropped even more on
older birds?
>
>
> When we bought our '80 35FC last spring, we thought we got a
pretty
> good deal on it in comparison with much of the market for that
> vintage. One of the reasons we got it was we figured that we
would
> have to realize very little further depreciation on a 1980 and
at
> that time, it seemed that there were only a few in the country
of
> any age that were under the $30k mark. Quite a few over 30k
were
> even older than ours. We were confident that once ours was paid
> off, we could sell it and roll that equity into a much upgraded
bus
> and keep the same payment range. Our goal was to keep doing this
> until we were ready to fulltime it and would have an animal of a
> practically new one almost paid for.
>
> Anyway, I was looking today at birds on autotrader and it seems
that
> the market has dropped even more. I found WAY more than I
expected
> in the mid-20k range. It kind of bums me out.
>
> Is this the case or is the differences I think I see due to a
> seasonal pricing difference since I bought in the Spring, and
we're
> currently seeing Summer pricing with a higher supply of
available
> birds driving the prices down?
>
> Any thoughts?? What gives?
>
> John
> 1980 Wanderlodge 35FC
>
>
>
>
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