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We  have just  purchased  a swift charisma from Discover. It was the dealers special and Discover had named it the oakmere, ours is a 555 we have the heavy duty steadies and  led lighting , We only paid 11,500 for it  with it been a dealers special they are a beautiful van and we got many extras with it.

Debi

Kabbes

I don't expect anybody to bow and scrape or to give a product away!

All I expect is that they contact me within a week to give me the BEST price they can for the said van, it is then my choice to either buy or walk away.

1 dealer has had the courtessy to ring me back 3 others have shown no interest, those 3 will not get another chance to relieve me, of what I think, is a substantial amount of my very hard earned cash.

Went to look at caravans at our local dealer last weekend and they were most unhelpful, only stopping long enough to tell me sales were up 400 % on last year and that they only had about 6 vans left unsold on site (new and used) as opposed to the usual 80 !

No recession in the caravan world it seems ...

  if you said you were ready to buy, then you may have more response if you told me you were buying in 4 to 8 weeks i would have told you to come back then.

there is no loyilty in buyers anymore , most people will sell there soul to save a few quid.

take this for example..

you go to the nec, show meet a nice salesman who knows is stuff shows you all the features and benifits ( sells you the van) you take up 2 hours of his time.You then go to the next stand, bump into another salesman who spends 30 seconds beating the price by £50.00 and off you go to sign up with no thought of the poor guy who actually sold the van to you. go figure...

I didn't let any of the dealers know my timescale for purchasing the new van when I emailed them in the first place, only 2 of them know now as they are the ones who had contacted me back.

Highbridge is one of the dealers who contacted me and were very helpful, we are off to devon on wednesday for 17 days and fully intend to visit highbridge to see what deal they can do for us.

The only concern is that if I have any warranty issues they are 260  miles away!