I've been advertising her for weeks. She's all clean and sparkling on the drive, ready for a new owner. She's in superb condition, everything works and she has a full service history and has another 3 plus years of Bailey's warranty. Fitted with a mover, the optional centre chest and Tyron bands. She's priced at £600 below the lowest priced one of a similar year that I can find and that one has no mover or central chest. To get hold of both will cost another £1,000. So why is nobody interested, cos I need to buy an Eriba.

I have. It hasn't done any good either. That's why I HUMPH!

Take her to a supermarket car park and do an open day sort of thing.
Over here, people often sell caravans in campsites so people see them ....
What about those websites for selling second hand stuff? We bought our Betty from one of those.

I hadn't thought of the supermarket thing, though I'm not sure what the itinerant car washers would make of it. She's already on the Caravan Club classifieds site and Preloved. Looks like Ebay is next, but as a classified.

There’s always a price at which someone will buy it, maybe it is too high, or the weather has not improved enough to get people thinking about their summer plans etc. Can you not trade in for an Eriba?

The only dealer that appears to accept WWB's in PX is Lowdhams and I've been waiting for a quote from them for 2 months. They don't really do used Eribas and I don't really want a new one, so I've not pushed them too hard.

you might have to keep messaging Eriba sellers to see if their plans include wanting a WWB?

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There’s always a price at which someone will buy it, maybe it is too high, or the weather has not improved enough to get people thinking about their summer plans etc. Can you not trade in for an Eriba?

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I had a sudden thought and emailed Becks as they have a new 540 in stock. They've given me an offer of £10K on my Bailey, which is about £1,000 below my private sale asking price, but better than the £7,500 our local dealer offered to buy the Bailey from me for.

Trouble is they're sticking at a list price of £23,510 for the van, which means financing £13,510 plus a mover, plus an awning of some sort. And their stock 540 has no hot water. They say they can retro-fit but as two dealers have told me £800 for fitting I can't see them being any cheaper.

Then there's the weight. I'd have to limit it's loading to 1200kg and as, after options there's just 182kg left of it's 1300kg MTPLM it means I could only load 82kg before exceeding the car's towing limit. If I had a 27kg Powrmover fitted I'd be left with just 55kg. Now my stripped down van contents list totals 109kg, so I'd have to lose 54kg or 50% of the stuff we put in the van.

Clothing & footwear 32kg
Bedding 10kg
Aquaroll & Wastemaster 12kg
Fridge contents & dry food 12kg
Wine & soft drinks 10kg
Cutlery, crockery and cooking stuff 5kg
Towels & toiletries 6kg
Folding chairs 5kg
CADAC 4kg
Remoska 3kg

That totals 99kg and there's lots of other little bits and pieces. To get down to 55kg I could leave all clothes and shoes behind, not bother with bedding or Aquaroll or Wastemaster. Lose the wine etc and I'd just about be right.

Having a pre 2010 540 with a similar spec and 27kg mover fitted leaves me with about 110kg of payload left, rather than the 55kg a new one offers.

Really, with my current car, a post 2010 540 just isn't going to work

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No room and no point in having two for goodness sake Roger.

Anyway I've sent a stirrer to Lowdhams, emailed Adv Leisure but their sales managers out today, and asked Cameron at AL for a PX. He's responded saying that he's asked for underwrite quotes as they don't PX WWB's themselves. The quotes have come in at between £8,500 and £9,000 which is £1,000 or more below Becks.

I'm pinning some hope on Tebay. According to their website they have 27 new Eribas in stock and with just four months of the Model Year left they've got to be very nervous about shifting them. Presumably they'll be on stocking plan but the interest will be mounting as each week passes.

I meant messaging PRIVATE sellers to see if they were contemplating ‘upgrading’ to a WWB, and then doing some kind of cash pls ‘van deal. I am sure some would be wanting this switch but wouldn’t be going to buy a WWB until they had sold their Eriba, hence the possibility of doing a deal.
It doesn’t take much to message eBay, preloaded, caravansforsale or gumtree sellers when you see an Eriba you like pop up. It might even give you a USP as a buyer!