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05/3/2015 at 4:07pm
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I hav ebought my last 2 caravans via ebay, the first was only 2 miles away if that, and from the time of sending the message to them asking loads of questions to being sat in the caravan was all of 25 mins! the caravan got fully checked over complete with taking a damp meter with me, and seeing everything fully working such as electrics and water and gas, a price was agreed on, while I was there they removed the caravan off ebay by cancelling the sale, you don't have any comeback with cars or caravans with ebay anyway, they simply don't want to know. the second one involved a trip of 60 miles with a fully loaded car, we had something already planned for the weekend, and of course a fully loaded envelope of cash, again the caravan got fully checked including ther cris documents, and while the blokes sorted all that out us ladies loaded the caravan with our gear and off we went. never looked back and never had any problems with either
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06/3/2015 at 9:21pm
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I would never even consider buying a van off ebay unless I had gone and had a good look at it first. We looked at several before we eventually bought the one we have now. Some went way above what we were prepared to pay, so we didn't bid, some we looked at we didn't like for various reasons, then along came the one we bought. It was a "best offer", so we went to have a look taking just enough money for what we wanted to pay, made an offer which was accepted, and towed it home.
We started looking at the end of the season, as this is the time to pick up a bargain. Set ourselves a budget and a maximum distance from home, and were prepared to wait until the right one came up. When we found one that "felt right", we bought. Simple!
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07/3/2015 at 7:33pm
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If not far to travel go look and if you like ask them if they will sell off of Ebay, agree a price and they just end the sale on Ebay, they will be saving on fees so could even reduce the price a tad.
Our first COC was only half hour away and we did just the above, genuine couple giving up caravanning due to health, the second and present caravan was again Ebay, it had fnished on Ebay without a buyer, we viewed it the next day,agreed a price (lower than their starting Ebay price) and towed it away same morning.
August seems to be a good month for we bought and sold this month without any problems, always view the van you will get a feel for the sellers aswell as checking the van over for damp etc before laying out any money.
Good luck, just use your common sense and you won't go wrong.
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