Our local paper the Burton mail has reported yesterday that Don Ammot Caravans has sold over £3m worth of motorhomes at the NEC show, I find that hard to beleive as his average one is about 60k mostly autotrails
£3m worth sold at show
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Jim
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Selling 50 vans seems pretty easy to believe. The paperwork desks in mosts stands had people queuing to fill order forms and pay deposits. Some larger dealers 20 at a time, others 10 at a time, most all day for 6 days!!
eddie
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I can believe it with the number of people that wanted to book in with us for Growler/Non Starter installs on their new vans for delivery next year
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They always tell us porkies. Bit like trying to sell us vans really
It may well be right but I have learned that papers don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story ?
Ivory55
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I wonder how they are being paid for % wise, ie finance, or pension pots etc.
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DL42846
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I was talking to the owner of Belzac Motorhomes and caravans here in France. They on average sell one a day throughout the year.
I'm one of those that have been in touch with you (Ash) for a Growler/non Starter to be fitted to a new (to us) Hymer.
How much notice do you need ?
As we intend leaving it in storage for the winter
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Jamwitt
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Pick my van up at marquis today in for warranty work asked how they done he said they sold over hundred vans
Silver-Fox
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£3m worth is presumably at top list price without allowing for discounts and trade ins so the cash involved is probably a lot less.
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Word to the wise folks.. If you are touring the UK next year make sure you book your pitches early..
its gonna get AWFUL crowded !
its gonna get AWFUL crowded !
Why? Surely if you want to know how much the dealers are making you need to know the margin the px's will be sold on as well with a similar (or maybe higher)% profit the dealers will be just as well off if people pay in full or px even better off if they can sell on finance.
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Silver-Fox
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No I don’t want to know or care to be frank.
It was a rhetorical question.
I was just making a point which you missed ?
Sorry re-read your post and still couldn't see any other point what was it!!!!!
On the last Saturday night in TGI Fridays a motorhome company came in. And one of the salesmen was dancing with joy and getting the drinks in because he had sold 2 vans. Going by his watch he's doing better than myself and going by his excitement he sold Morello's lol
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AWFUL 'and' crowded!... I think your right, very busy and lots of, Oh dear god!, what on earth have we signed up to, F&&k this! for peace and quiet...
I want my pension back.....
Sorry re-read your post and still couldn't see any other point what was it!!!!!
The point that it is the difference between the two that is the real indicator of ‘benefit’.
I thought it perfectly clear.
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Yes I thought thats what he meant hence my previous reply that dealers generally operate on a pretty good margin when selling on trade ins so they might be as well off if not better off than when people pay in full. After all the dealer's set the trade in value!!!. A truer indicator of the benefit would be if anyone knows the margins
Jim
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Where did they say they made £3m profit!? They said they made £3m sales.
Profit will likely by a single figure percentage point of that.
Profit will likely by a single figure percentage point of that.
The fact that some dealers go bust would support that sort of figure together with the low amount paid for warranty work when required. Having heard from exhibitors at other trade show at the NEC the big stands will also come at a big cost plus the staff etc etc. Some of the trade show I used to go to were starting to get smaller with a lot of companies starting to pull out. I think a lot of people who have never run a business see them as licences to print money
i wonder what the percentage of the new ones sold will get refillable gas then, if quite a few then we may see a few more outlets pop up.
Be nice if it did but when you look at the amount most motorhomers get through it won't be a great business boost.
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Indeed.
The £3M headline figure is a pretty poor indicator of anything (it’s headlined as a sales/turnover figure) however Silver-Fox ‘s comment is a better indicator of ‘turnover’. Neither, however, provide any indicator of the health of the business; as the old adage says ‘Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity’. ?
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Jim
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£3m sales in a 6 days, what not to like!
If they sold £3m that equates to about 1 for every hour that the show was open; that's a good indicator that people are buying
If they sold £3m that equates to about 1 for every hour that the show was open; that's a good indicator that people are buying
Blue Knight
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AWFUL 'and' crowded!... I think your right, very busy and lots of, Oh dear god!, what on earth have we signed up to, F&&k this! for peace and quiet...
I want my pension back.....
That's a very good point you make there Steve. We travelled back from Thurso via the West side of Scotland in September and the roads, car parks and scenic spots were all crammed full of big white motorhome boxes; each owner in a desperate trance to find that wonderful secluded spot - yeh right!!
We then travelled to Dumfries for the night only to find a huge number of large MoHo's stuffed into every wild camp orifice, that until then, I thought were only big enough for a VW T5.
There's just too many on the roads. It also means that getting away from the rat race in a MoHo these days just means joining a bigger rat race somewhere else.
Everyone to their own but the joys of touring the UK in a MoHo are well and truly gone.
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