Price increase tonight?
Visited a Swift dealer this afternoon. Salesman was busy removing all the prices from new caravans. Told us he was expecting a 4 to 5 percent increase in price tonight. Stated that this applied to all manufacturers. 
I guess that the fall in the value of the £ is havng an mpact looking forward.
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What a rip the just profiteering when you order a new caravan you have to wait six monthss for them to build so to put prices up on ones already built is disgusting we only voted brexit just over 3 months ago so they would still be useing material they
have already purchased but we got to get use to be ripped off and being blamed on brexit if we dony buy them there soon reduce there prices0 -
Not surprising is it? Half the technical bits that go into a caravan are imported. Pound falls, prices of imported bits rise. Did no one warn us?
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What a rip the just profiteering when you order a new caravan you have to wait six monthss for them to build so to put prices up on ones already built is disgusting
we only voted brexit just over 3 months ago so they would still be useing material they have already purchased but we got to get use to be ripped off and being blamed on brexit if we dony buy them there soon reduce there pricesWell we know who to blame for it then, don't we!
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Ya nelliethehooker the ones who are ripping us off but as long as they can keep telling people its brexit a people believe them there keep putting up the prices at least tesco stood up the profiteers
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Prices go up every year immediately after NEC show.
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What a rip the just profiteering when you order a new caravan you have to wait six monthss for them to build so to put prices up on ones already built is disgusting
we only voted brexit just over 3 months ago so they would still be useing material they have already purchased but we got to get use to be ripped off and being blamed on brexit if we dony buy them there soon reduce there pricesWell we know who to blame for it then, don't we!
...Sure do ,the scaremongers
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Tesco won - did they ?
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The reason why manufacturers have to increase the price of existing stock when their source cost rises is that they need to maintain cash flow to buy the next batch of components. If they don't increase the price of existing stock, then where does the extra money needed for ongoing purchases come from? Remember that a manufacturer has to pay for materials and labour well before their customer has paid them.
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And don't forget that the models on a caravan dealer forecourt are generally not the ones you actually buy but just 'demonstration' models intended as a display of what a manufacturer actually produces
If you buy a 'forecourt' model, which has been subject to viewings by potentially many many people, and hence some 'wear and tear' then most people expect a substantial discount. The price increase is for a caravan which is not actually built yet, and for which the components will cost the manufacturer more.
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Even if the sterling exchange rate wasn't being manipulated, which I suspect it is, when did anything ever get cheaper? Rip-off Britain was a TV programme before Brexit.
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Europe was screwing us a lot more. the pound will find its own value in time, what did Harold Wilson say all those years ago for us that can remember Quote ( this will not effect the pound in your pocket) also under Ted Heath in the early seventies, it survived
then have faith it will survive again even with the rip off merchants using it has an excuse to raise prices. Check the fuel over the last 6 weeks gone up quicker than it came down0 -
not sure about caravans, but the MHs for 2017 are built on Euro 6 compliant Ducato base vehicles which have added a slug to the ticket price.
most of the innards (fridge, cooker, toilet etc) are made in Europe so will cost more this year.....
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Plenty of good quality 2nd hand vans on the market, I will never ever buy another new van
I've never bought a new van and never will. Someone else can take the hit on depreciation.
I take the same approach with cars. I always aim for a two year old with low mileage and it's never let me down yet
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Plenty of good quality 2nd hand vans on the market, I will never ever buy another new van
I've never bought a new van and never will. Someone else can take the hit on depreciation.
I take the same approach with cars. I always aim for a two year old with low mileage and it's never let me down yet
We have always been the same, bought second hand, vans and cars until now, have been unable to find a second hand caravan, so looks like it going to be a new one.
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I agree that they are just using the current situation as an excuse. But they do tend to increase prices around this time of year, usually.
As far as I'm concerned, that's another 4 to 5% discount they would need to give me to get me to buy one.
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Price rises? Chickens coming home to roost.
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Plenty of good quality 2nd hand vans on the market, I will never ever buy another new van
I never buy second hand , its one of lifes luxuries buying new and I am approaching the stage where if I dont spend it I know someone else who will without a second thought
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SWIFT Always have a price increase at this time of year so nothing new there. Of course a lot of the stuff is bought in from abroad such as furniture, fridges, heating etc. so they will now cost more if they had not already fixed a price. Labour costs
(except mine have gone up this year and will do so again next spring with the living wage increase etc. Of course some companies will try and use Brexit as an excue but its not Brexit itself its the resultant drop in the value of the ££££ that makes imports more expensive but conversely if they exported their products would be cheaper but nor sure EU man would
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Plenty of good quality 2nd hand vans on the market, I will never ever buy another new van
I never buy second hand , its one of lifes luxuries buying new and I am approaching the stage where if I dont spend it I know someone else who will without a second thought
I look on the van as one of life necessitys and not a luxury
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Interesting points. We recently bought a new Hymer Motorhome. The price was cheaper than it was a couple years ago due to the exchange rate. We didn't complain about that. We would have still bought new even if it was a bit more. You pays your money and
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If the price is too high then don't complain just don't pay it.
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Prices go up every year immediately after NEC show.
Quite right.
Normal in this industry. Happens every year and results in the issuing of new price lists by most manufacturers at this time of the year
No way has the floating exchange rate affected the price of caravans so soon. It might eventually but floating exchange rates prevents the situation developing in the UK that has already happened in Greece.
Would expect the likes of Swift and Bailey filling aircraft seats on their way to sell their products. Fill your boots chaps.
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