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Congrats to those of you who have the 75th Anniversary Edition. It's a beautiful AS. We came VERY close to buying one ourselves...the design is wonderful and the retro look and openess is great.
This was from a dealer in Phoenix (we are in Tucson). We saw it in person and drove home to give it some thought and count our pennies...then the sales guy called and we struck a decent deal with a trade-in of our small motor home....even gave them a credit card number over the phone to cement the deal, and said we'd be up the following weekend to turn in our motor home, give them a healthy down payment and sign the papers.
We were SO excited. 15 minutes later the sales guy called and said his sales manager had kaboshed the deal, and it would be another $10,000 on top of the deal we'd already agreed on. Can you imagine?? Talk about PO'd. That really soured us on the deal and the dealeship. I doubt if we ever go back to tha tplace for anything after this little fiasco. Thier attemtp at facy footwork has cost them a long-term customer, for sure. We felt misled, betrayed and sucked into a sales scheme. We told the sales guy the deal was off....no way, no thanks...and we don't even want to talk to you.
He called every day for the next week asking what he could do to save the deal, as if nothing had happened. Each time we told him he could stick to his original deal and we'd take it....but no. Finally, we went to the Tucson dealer where we'd done a lot of looking and general research...and bought a 2006 19' SE LS Safari 75th...not the "special 75th" but a 75th nonetheless, and a very sweet little trailer. In the end we are quite pleased, and now feel this is actually the better trailer for our needs. We are happy with the additional storage, the sink in the vanity area, and the larger converted dinette area that we use as a lounge in the evenings... So we are happy campers.
What's important is that we each enjoy our Airstreams and make the most use of them we possible can...that's our goal, anyway. We've only had our little trailer since Mar 07 and have already made three 1-week-long trips, some long weekend trips...and are loving it more with each trip!
Happy Trails to the rest of you Happy Campers!
TB
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