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bought ours on ebay 4 yrs back bid £1600 only to be out bid by £30 in last seconds

A few days later got a second chance offer, wqas told that winning bidder had to sell there old van to raise cash for the newer van

As it was only 15 miles we went to have a look van had a lot of damp in it and was not in  the description    but having a look around this was to be our first van as we had a folding camper decided to haggle on price ended up getting it for £800 including awning side pods leads every thing you would need to go on holiday

stripped it down replaced part of the floor resealed awning rails gave it a good clean and has been great, it was a 1991 coachman we have had loads of great holidays in it also just has two fantastic weeks in france

So for me a lot depends on how old cost of van you are looking at but hay if you find what you are not expecting as not in  description just walk away

For us it was great and as we now have the caravan bug we are also now looking to upgrade and to look forward to more sunshine in france

Quote: Originally posted by Tersane on 16/9/2012

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Has anyone ever bought a caravan on eBay without looking at it first?
Did the description fit the van?

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we have bought 2 vans from ebay and been very lucky with genuine sellers and 2 excellent vans.

We did view both before purhcasing and it was not a quick process we searched for months until the right one came available for us

Good luck with your search, an dont forget to take a damp meter if you do view

We currently have our caravan for sale on Ebay, we received a email asking the size and make of the awning and if it was suitable for sleeping in, this sounded a reasonable question. When i looked at there location it was New Zealand, hope they dont want me to deliver it could be a long drive lol.

Just an update on the New Zealand story i now have been contacted by someone who exports caravans to Australia and NZ who knows these people have contacted me, he wants to come and inspect the van and pay cash for it on behalf of the NZ people.

I think all this looks a bit suspicious he says caravans are very expensive over there and its cheaper to import a caravan from the uk. I have told him i am not interested,

It all seems a bit dodgy

herald

Hi Carol

Thats interesting i have been giving the bloke a bit of short shrift today thinking it was a scam, What was the guy called in the uk that you dealt with ?