Well, I've just taken possession of Eriba No 5, a Feeling, which I'll do a dedicated thread on, but I thought it might be useful to members to give an idea of current market trends. It is DIRE.
My first 3 Eriba's have sold for more than I paid for them. I'd bought them both privately and through a dealer, UK and abroad, selling them at 6, 2 and 10 years old, so a good spread.
My last Eriba was a high specification 2017 Triton in near showroom condition. I could have sold it last summer for what I'd paid for it new. But 2023 has not been kind. I advertised it at a price a little high to allow for being knocked down. I had no interest so reduced it and then had one seemingly interested party. This did not progress so I contacted dealers. The message coming back from them all was not good news. The market is flooded with new and nearly new vans that they cannot shift. Covid returns have produced a glut of vans, some with low specification and in poor condition, which when added to the ramping up of orders has resulted in a lot of vans in a market with few buyers.
If you check out the on-line websites then you will find a lot of vans that have been on the market for many months.
If you want to trade up and you can sell your van then it is a good time to do so. I was about £3K down on selling but £7K up on buying.
What I have also learnt in this time is how some dealers continue to be, I'll be blunt here, useless. They do not know what they are selling and do not advertise it correctly. The van I sold is now currently advertised at an Eriba dealership with numerous significant errors. The van I bought from an Eriba dealership appeared to be a poverty spec but turned out to include many desirable and expensive extras. Another dealer has not updated adverts on there own website, e-bay, Gumtree etc with stock and prices differing.
My advice is if you see something that might be what you want then phone up, you may get lucky.

Colin

Mike, we had a few days away in Cornwall before selling. On that site were 3 older vans, which was unusual. When travelling from Merseyside to Devon on Thursday I saw 4, possibly 5 vans on the M5 heading north. I guess it's down to luck if one appears on your travels as we are still in a niche product.

Colin