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Best Way To Sell a Camper

Posted on December 29, 2008
Filed Under Buying or Selling a Used Recreational Vehicle, Vintage Camper Trailer Sales | 3 Comments

What’s the best way to sell a camper, trailer, or RV?  Excellent question, and one that I asked a reader of this site recently.  I stumbled upon Liz, who was selling a vintage trailer on eBay.  Since I have a vintage trailer eBay viewer on this site, and her trailer popped up, she got a bit more visibility for her eBay auction.  (I have the eBay auction viewer dialed in to the keywords “vintage” “retro” and “trailer”.)  Here’s the link:  Vintage Trailers on eBay.   So every time anyone anywhere has a vintage or retro trailer, and they’ve used those words to describe their eBay auction, it’ll pop up on my site.  Sometimes there are one or two, sometimes a dozen, sometimes none… 


So that understood, now to the point about Liz, and how we got to exchanging emails!  Someone saw her ebay vintage trailer auction here and sent me an email through the camper-blue-book-value website that they were interested in Liz’s vintage trailer and wanted to pick it up the same day!  So I replied to the person inquiring that they needed to go through eBay and either place a bid, or send the seller an inquiry.  Being an active eBay seller myself, I’m familiar with how it works.  I wasn’t sure the person that sent me the email was familiar with how to buy through eBay, so I sent an inquiry to the seller and let her know of the interest, and passed on the email address and the phone number of the interested party.  And then Liz (the vintage trailer owner) and I traded a few more email, and I asked her what she thought of selling through eBay, and she replied!  (I know what she said, but I’ll give her a chance here to tell you in her own words!)  And since she’s sold 10 trailers this year I’d say she’s a good resident expert to interview! 

Hit it Liz!

 

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  1. Liz Hamel on December 30th, 2008 7:28 am

    Hi everyone – in the last year I have specialized in selling small vintage campers. I tried to stay under 13 feet and in the 1000lbs range, this is the range I felt most people would be interested in given the gas prices in early in 2008. Moreover, it’s the campers I love.

    In my experience, I prefer craigslist for selling campers. It is a better medium for the high population area in which I live – the DC metro area. Other than tons of scam emails, one has to wade through, I’ve had good luck here and better returns on the campers over my research of the same campers sold on E-BAY. Please note, I love E-BAY and think it offers a valuable service, but relative to campers in my area it’s not the best venue. In my opinion using E-Bay for selling vintage campers are best for low population and rural areas, or for highly specialized items – ie vintage camper parts. From my research and my experience has shown me my profit margin is about 2 times higher when selling on craigslist because the price reflects the market demands in my specific area.

  2. admin on December 30th, 2008 10:02 pm

    Excellent, thanks Liz for sharing a few minutes! I’ve also met a lot of nice people that are interested in vintage campers by being a member of a vintage trailer group on Yahoo – it’s a fun group with lots of postings about lots of different type of vintage trailers. I learn something new every day with this group! Here’s the link to the vintage trailer group on eYahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vintage_Trailers_USA_Network/

    Thanks again, Liz!
    Penny – the blog moderator

  3. admin on March 2nd, 2009 7:07 am

    (In response to this email) Hi we are still looking for a 12 ft vintage trailer, so if you want to give your friend my email that would be fine, please use this address:(deleted for the blog…)

    Hi Liz,
    I’m forwarding an email to you from a gentleman that is interested in purchasing a trailer. Have any 12 footers currently? How’s your winter going for you, ready for spring?

    Take care!
    Penny

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