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04-08-2016, 12:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Rancho Nuevo (Cabo/Todos Santos) B.C.S. and San Diego, CA
Posts: 1,952
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The human spirit thrives on risk... we crave it.
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04-08-2016, 03:10 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Estes Park, CO
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Agree with all of the above: trendiness, awareness through social media, and fuel prices. Plus, spring is the time to sell anything from houses to cars to recreation vehicles... except snow machines.
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04-09-2016, 06:27 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BVerhulst
. Plus, spring is the time to sell anything from houses to cars to recreation vehicles... except snow machines.
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That's the buyer's markets then!
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04-09-2016, 07:11 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Montana
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I think a lot of it is spring. When we started shopping we couldn't find much and then early spring many came up for sale and we eventually found ours. The market dries up in winter. I'm surprised so many are parting ways with the discontinued Ford's though. I admit the factory 4x4 sprinter looks cool but man I'm glad we found an E-series before they were all gone.
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04-09-2016, 08:14 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: TN
Posts: 10,273
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Quote:
Originally Posted by swampdonkey
I admit the factory 4x4 sprinter looks cool but man I'm glad we found an E-series before they were all gone.
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Ding ding ding ding!! I know I just sold one but it won't be my last. Every time I see a Promaster, after I spit out the puke, I have to look at a few Econolines for a few minutes and try and forget the ugly future I've just seen.
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04-09-2016, 09:14 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Western North Carolina
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 86Scotty
I think the world is changing and it won't come back.
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I completely agree, and.... that's why I have/am building my van to be 100% off grid for whatever the future brings.
And the lack of jobs these days aren't helping my income any...
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Current:
2001 E350 PSD w/ a bunch of stuff.
And had three other E350s...
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04-09-2016, 02:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 4,211
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I'm thankful for the consumerism of the Baby Boomer generation. I figure by the time I'm ready to retire a lot of these high-ticket toys will be flooding the market and prices will be low :-)
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04-09-2016, 08:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Posts: 247
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I'll sell mine if the price is right!
As someone stated when I was working on my build... "it takes a couple times to get it right"
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04-28-2016, 10:06 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The Sunny Southwest, USA
Posts: 427
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read through all the above and could have said much the same : )
The situation my wife and I find ourselves in is we would LOVE to just head out in our van (pretty sure I could sell it within a week as I have a small list of peeps on the want-it-list), BUT we are still tied down to our "jobs" simply to pay for the larger place to live in while we work. ugg. We have funds to live a simple lifestyle off grid if we just left in the van and got out from what we live in, but IMO, fear holds us to the jobs. Though maybe that is a healthy fear?
I frequent the Cheap RV Living Forum and read of peeps living in their rigs though it seems like many have made that decision out of hardship. Though I do read blogs of young couples working remotely out of theirs and I say to them way-to-go!
: ) Thom
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04-28-2016, 03:07 PM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Excelsior, MN
Posts: 93
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 86Scotty
Add another one. I sold mine and never even advertised it.
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Add my 03 SMB, I sold it and never advertised either.
I bought my tiger Cx last December. Remodeled it and 4 people reached out and asked if I wanted to sell my SMB..
Wow,
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