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having spent nearly a month travelling around dealers looking for a 3 to 4 year old 2 berth van and finding a lack of vans on dealers fore courts ,and sales people unwilling to drop prices by more than £100 of the asking price,even with no part exchange.almost gave up till today found an Abby Vogue 460 2007 with moter mover and the dealer dropped £500 on ticket price  .Pick it up in 3 weeks time newest van we have ever had . there are deals out there but it's hard going trying to find them.

Dave

Quote: Originally posted by darthillcat on 21/3/2010

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having spent nearly a month travelling around dealers looking for a 3 to 4 year old 2 berth van and finding a lack of vans on dealers fore courts ,and sales people unwilling to drop prices by more than £100 of the asking price,even with no part exchange.almost gave up till today found an Abby Vogue 460 2007 with moter mover and the dealer dropped £500 on ticket price  .Pick it up in 3 weeks time newest van we have ever had . there are deals out there but it's hard going trying to find them.

Dave

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Hi Dave

Congrats - the model looks a nice caravan and great that you got some money off, did you get anything more included in the price ?.

I'm still concerned that I'm looking for a 5/6 berth (as it seems so are many other families) but decent caravans of any size(berth) as you have found are difficult to track down, even though we hear that dealers are offering top trade-in values

We have just bought brand new Elddis Crusader Aurora 2009 model.  We got it with a new awning thrown in and nearly £3k less than book price as it was the last one.  To start with we were also looking at an Odyssey that was a couple of years old but the price just pushed us to the new one.

Refused to trade mine in as they only offered a pittance when there were vans 5 or 6 years OLDER than mine on their forecourt at over double what they offered me.  So we are going to sell privately, fantastic van with lots of fun left to be had out of her.

Quote: Originally posted by navver on 21/3/2010

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I thought that last year, everyone stayed in Britain instead of abroad, because of the credit crunch, and that's why van prices went sky high. I thought that as last year was terrible weather, and the economic scene seems to be easing, they would sell their vans and go abroad again. I can't really see why they are so expensive again this year.

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