Was nice meeting the family today. I know it was crazy there today, but very nice to put faces to names and to meet in person.. hope the rest of your day was good.
Same here. I hope you trip is going well to the land of the mouse as you should be somewhat in the middle of your journey. We left the show around 5:30 PM. It was hot and exhuasting. I was kind of disappointed for the size of the show and really the lack of models we were looking at. I would have really thought with how large the show is there would have been more than 27 million Fifth wheels and 28 million small trailer types. Here are my thoughts.
1) The metal detectors was really gimmicky. I didn't see any real preventive measures. At least when I go to Disney there is some really friendly Orange County Sheriff officers with some friendly Disney security folks. They did have a security person who was notifying everyone to leave the knives and other weapons back at the vehicles.
2) Crowds. Granted we got ther around 12:30 PM on Saturday. There was just tons of people both inside and out. It looks likes it translated into a pile of sales. Lots of sold stickers on many units and notes saying they have access to more than what was at the show.
3) Sales and manufacturer reps. This shocked me. We went through I would say at least 50 percent of the outside areas. We saw a couple of sales reps. Honestly, we didn't get many hellos or HIs. Don't know what was up with. Manybe some tireness or met sales goals mentality. Manufacturer reps seemed to almost be MIA. We did see a few here and there. Just shocked. However I did get some attention when the family and I walked though some $100k toy hauler and we walked out I jokingly said I would take 6 of them to the wife, there was a sales rep at the door and his eyes opened super wide and said I help with you will anything? At which point my wife said he was just joking we just walked through. Really young kid. Must have been his first show. We spent some time at Grand Designs. I was spending some time with one of the units. Checking out the under side and all the exterior. There was a manufacturer rep there and he saw me doing a real walk around. He started coming over and some people started talking to him about some thing or another. My wife and I were tired at this point. SO we started heading out. My wife put the nix on looking and talking to anyone else at that point.
4) Buyers. Two incidents stood out. The first one was while we walked though the Jayco model. I don't know the what was going on. However, I mentioned to my wife about the "high quality" of trim and doors. There was a sales rep basically pressuring in a guy in buying the trailer today for 30 grand! He should sell his trailer since the dealer would not give him any money for it. I hope the buyer came to his senses. Another trailer which seemed to have to seem to have somre really interesting alayout and features. There was a a buyer in there that was being well impossible. He wanted to trade in his trailer and the sales rep wanted to know what the layout, model info, amount owe, etyc. He it think model age and such. and then it went back and forth. I left the trailer to check out the outside, and my wife said it got worse inside as he started talking about hitting objects at a certain speed and if the trailer would handle the impact! She said 2 other on lookers basically looked dumbstruck to the way this guy was acting. My wife thought the person started acting a bit stranger than normal and left the trailer to look for me on the outside.
5) Best booth was really the PA State Parks. Super friendly workers wanted me to visit the state parks. Liked to talk about the Fort.