Sell my motorhome? Beware of offers to “sale or return” your motorhome

Not for the first time, a number of motorhome owners look set to suffer financial loss. This time at the hands of a motorhome dealership going into liquidation. If you are thinking it’s time to sell my motorhome, please take a minute to learn the salutary lessons from the demise of St Andrews Motorhomes. Sale or return is a common way of selling many things. With regard to motorhomes, it is something that motorhome dealers are most likely to offer. In short, it means leaving your motorhome and documents with a motorhome dealer. The hope is that they will be able to sell it for you at an agreed price.

The risk with sale or return lies in the fact that you do not have control over your motorhome or the documents. There have been a number of instances over the years of motorhomes on sale or return being sold without the owner’s knowledge. The motorhome dealership has then gone into liquidation leaving the motorhome owner without their motorhome or payment for it. There is no suggestion that this is pre-meditated on the part of the dealership. But businesses do cease trading – why would you want to be exposed to that risk?

In fact if you think about the motives of a dealer in seeking sale or return stock, that should be a warning. It may be because they can’t afford to buy stock to fill their yard!

This then begs the question, what is the safest way to sell your motorhome? Well obviously, it is to use a long established, specialist buyer of motorhomes. This ensures you have secured funds in your bank account before you release the keys. Buy My Motorhome has been the market leader in it’s field for ten years. Our business is all about making selling your motorhome simple and secure. With just one phone call you could have cleared funds in your bank account within 24 hours. No hassle and no worries. So if you’re thinking “Sell my motorhome”, contact us today. Start by getting your free motorhome valuation.