cost of living is hammering everyone,
electric prices are at front of minds heat or eat,
mortgage payments are higher
central heating oil is eye watering
the clubs are charging more for joining, sites and pitches.
the clubs are testing and writing about cars that are £50.000,😲 when a fully driveaway motorhome is £69,000
caravan prices have also soared.
folks are reducing costs as much as possible,


every little saving makes a difference in longer term.

the price not dropped out its the people not having as much funds to buy.

in our local big town no buses meant no people,
no people means no buying,
no buying ends shops,
empty buildings
no people,
more folks out of work,
its a vicious circle that's spiralling to other areas.

mean while the expensive pedestrian walkway is superb its smooth, however there is no one to use it! because the bus routes got cut to fund most likely the towns pavement?!.

life will be back to normal when the weather turns good again

A lot of the price increases generally, not just for caravans, have been due to shortages of components and this has been right down the line from raw materials to machinery.
This ‘glitch’ is recovering now, quite quickly and as the demand is reduced at the inflated prices, then the suppliers will be pressed to reduce their prices
It won’t be quick and there will be casualties along they way but a correction is becoming due.

Colin, was it the norm to get large discounts pre covid. I was wondering if it was Hymer that pushed the prices up, or the dealers, or both.

Steve

On this, I have a pal in the market for a Feeling 442 (the one with the 'funny' v-shaped double bed) We are keeping an eye out but if anyone spots an absolute bargain, a PM to point it out would be much appreciated. We have seen the one at Adventure Liesure but the discount isn;t quite enough to tempt my pal to drive up from Cambridge...

I think the caravan/car market have always taken advantage of supply and demand, they have to reign in their inflated profits and offer discounts when buyers stop visiting their showrooms . Back in 2012 the caravan market was slow, I managed to get £2.5k off the price of a new Familia 320 from Automotive Lesuire.
There are a lot more Eriba dealers now so they have to compete against each other for customers. It wasn’t long ago we only had two official Hymer Eriba dealerships in the UK.

I posted something a couple of months ago about how few Eribas we had seen on the road or on sites this year. Some people responded and they had seen a fair few

We have been on two outings recently and on each saw no Eribas on site and on the two return journeys only passed one each time - but there was loads of waving and lights flashing......!

We also had a long journey down to Essex to see friends (and also to watch Blackburn Rovers lose to Ipswich in the company of some Ipswich supporters, who were lovely in victory)

On this long journey we only saw one Tourer in all the journey and they were stuck next to us in a traffic jam on the A!. We waved but they didn't respond, probably thinking we were nutters as we didn't have our Troll behind us...........!

Are we becoming a dying breed? We did see a fair few new Base Camps though

MikeT

Quote: Randa france wrote in post #11

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The Waving thing is dying out in the UK. Owners of new vans don't seem to want to join in. Plenty of waving from older vans though and Eriba People abroad are still into it. Randa

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I find Eriba owners wave when not on main roads (closing speeds too fast?) and they always pop by to say hello when on the same site (as do i to them). We made some good new friends that way last year (though they have now gone to the dark side and traded across to a little Knaus - mainly due to illness and needing to do all the work on setup). This year most of the Eribas we have camped with have been post 2015 ones, but I fairly often see older Eribas out and about in East Anglia, indeed I overtook one on the A14 just yesterday..

I have noticed that second hand prices have dropped a fair bit this year.

Roger's right about the older vans here. Even really old vans. People who can do them up are doing great business. We don't see many new vans ( except when the Brits come over for the rally LOL. )