NADA Values vs. Asking price

[airbyte]

News to me!

I just ran my Airstream through the NADA calculator for the second time, the first being two weeks ago, and found the prices have increased on my 2001 AS trailer by $4K to $6K as of 9-4-21. They must have adjusted their "value calculation" ... I was shocked!! Maybe it doesn't mean anything.

I bought my first trailer off the internet in 2009 and used NADA values just to see if the dealer was in the ballpark and it worked out very well for me! I have loved being in my trailer. Now I am selling the same trailer and using NADA as a baseline for value to find it a good home.

[SilverWind]

NADA exists as a reference for dealers to understand the amount that their bank will loan them to buy a trade-in. Very much not a realistic selling value.

I never allow NADA values enter into negotiations for my used vehicles.

[Hittenstiehl]

Agree Silverwind. It is a basic rudimentary guideline but no longer valued or used the way it was in days past. Same with Zillow and real estate.

[airbyte]

So where can you go when you don't have an Airstream knowledge base to get a good sense on sale or purchase price? I am thinking of all those folks on the Louisiana coast that were in the path of IDA who might need a quick setup and don't have alot of time to gain comfort in a purchase price - where can they go besides NADA? Those on the west coast too? There are alot of rigs out on the internet for sale and seems to me alot of need as well.