rvisnext
Active Member
I did a quick search and didn’t come up with anything, so if this has been covered, my apologies.
I’ve only been in the RV world for a few years, and I’ve heard of only one (what I believe to be) real unsolicited offer to buy a beautiful RV7.
If I’m remembering correctly, the hopeful buyer saw the plane at Oshkosh, but I don’t think the owner/builder was at the plane. The hopeful buyer looked up the owners address through the wonderful system of the FAA letting everyone know our personal info(sarcasm)and sent him a letter with an offer that was at the time was probably 10-20% above market. The builder didn’t sell, and I do wonder if maybe that potential purchaser found his RV eventually. Maybe by going down a list he had made by walking around HBC and HBP at Oshkosh or potentially by more conventional means… checking Barnstormers and VAF at least once a day for months/years.
If I were a prospective buyer, I would think an Oshkosh trip could be maybe the best way to finding, or at least getting good leads on finding the perfect bird. I would expect that someone using this method would probably be paying above market in most cases, but even so you still paid way less than the labor should have cost, and you save year of your life had you built yourself.
So anyone have any stories along these lines? Really want to hear a story of someone who found one this way, and if it was like some sort of Hail Mary pass to finally join the RV ranks. Thanks in advance for any good stories.
I’ve only been in the RV world for a few years, and I’ve heard of only one (what I believe to be) real unsolicited offer to buy a beautiful RV7.
If I’m remembering correctly, the hopeful buyer saw the plane at Oshkosh, but I don’t think the owner/builder was at the plane. The hopeful buyer looked up the owners address through the wonderful system of the FAA letting everyone know our personal info(sarcasm)and sent him a letter with an offer that was at the time was probably 10-20% above market. The builder didn’t sell, and I do wonder if maybe that potential purchaser found his RV eventually. Maybe by going down a list he had made by walking around HBC and HBP at Oshkosh or potentially by more conventional means… checking Barnstormers and VAF at least once a day for months/years.
If I were a prospective buyer, I would think an Oshkosh trip could be maybe the best way to finding, or at least getting good leads on finding the perfect bird. I would expect that someone using this method would probably be paying above market in most cases, but even so you still paid way less than the labor should have cost, and you save year of your life had you built yourself.
So anyone have any stories along these lines? Really want to hear a story of someone who found one this way, and if it was like some sort of Hail Mary pass to finally join the RV ranks. Thanks in advance for any good stories.