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| 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146479] |
Fri, 14 October 2011 09:48  |
lance
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Hi Guys! I stall have my much beloved Palm Beach so I've slashed the price to 12 grand in the hopes that it will go to a good home soon. I hate to sell but my recent marriage has created other priorities. If anyone is looking for a great coach at a fantastic price or knows someone who is looking, this is it. I've done all the heavy lifting, you add your own details and you'll have one of the best coaches for the money on the road! I've placed a very detailed post on the swap meet page so check it out and give me a call. I've got tons of pics I can send but if someone can tell me how to upload them I would be happy to put them on the net. I've had several serious lookers but everyone complains that I removed the original furniture. So, if you can replace it or put in some new stuff, you can't find a better one for the money. The coach is in Fredericksburg, Texas, near San Antonio.
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146482 is a reply to message #146479] |
Fri, 14 October 2011 09:52  |
James Hupy
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Better keep the GMC. Marriages have been known to be temporary.<Grin>
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
78 GMC Royale 403
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Lance <lance@vonprum.com> wrote:
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> Hi Guys! I stall have my much beloved Palm Beach so I've slashed the price
> to 12 grand in the hopes that it will go to a good home soon. I hate to
> sell but my recent marriage has created other priorities. If anyone is
> looking for a great coach at a fantastic price or knows someone who is
> looking, this is it. I've done all the heavy lifting, you add your own
> details and you'll have one of the best coaches for the money on the road!
> I've placed a very detailed post on the swap meet page so check it out and
> give me a call. I've got tons of pics I can send but if someone can tell me
> how to upload them I would be happy to put them on the net. I've had
> several serious lookers but everyone complains that I removed the original
> furniture. So, if you can replace it or put in some new stuff, you can't
> find a better one for the money. The coach is in Fredericksburg, Texas,
> near San Antonio.
> --
> 1976 Palm Beach
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| Re: 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146499 is a reply to message #146479] |
Fri, 14 October 2011 12:35 |
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mike miller
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| lance wrote on Fri, 14 October 2011 07:48 |
... I've had several serious lookers but everyone complains that I removed the original furniture. ...
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For the record: I have the original furniture from THIS coach. I will give it to anyone who buys THIS coach (but the furniture is in Oregon.) Just in case someone wants to put it back... the dinette is dirty and worn the rest isn't that bad.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
(#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
More Sidekicks than GMC's and a late model Malibu called 'Boo'
http://m000035.blogspot.com
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| Re: 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146921 is a reply to message #146479] |
Tue, 18 October 2011 10:51 |
lance
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So guys, what am I doing wrong here? Is the GMC market that bad? I reduced my price on the Bethune web site to 12k and Billy says they are still selling. Why does no one want this way above average coach for a song? Help me out here guys. How can I move this thing? I'd love to keep it but not only am I recently married but have some medical bills that I need to deal with. Not looking for sympathy, just a good home for a good coach. Thanks again for all your help in the past. What a fabulous resourse.
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146922 is a reply to message #146921] |
Tue, 18 October 2011 12:10 |
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Hello Lance,
First of all, yes the market is down. When I put my Kingsley up for sale several years ago I listed it on every site I could find. Here are a few that I remember.
http://www.rvtraderonline.com/
http://www.rvonline.com/index.html
http://gmccoop.com/for%20sale.htm
http://www.gmcmh.com/
http://www.appliedgmc.com/level.itml/icOid/682
http://www.gmcclassics.com/chatter/4sale.html
http://www.gmcmotorhome.com/
I might have forgotten some. My point is I wanted the most exposure I could get. About 3 weeks into the advertising blitz a father and son team showed up from France and bought it. Because of the language barrier I could never find out from them which advertisement they saw but it was clear they got it from the internet.
You only have to find that one right person and it will sell.
On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Lance wrote:
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> So guys, what am I doing wrong here? Is the GMC market that bad? I reduced my price on the Bethune web site to 12k and Billy says they are still selling. Why does no one want this way above average coach for a song? Help me out here guys. How can I move this thing? I'd love to keep it but not only am I recently married but have some medical bills that I need to deal with. Not looking for sympathy, just a good home for a good coach. Thanks again for all your help in the past. What a fabulous resourse.
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| Re: 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146930 is a reply to message #146921] |
Tue, 18 October 2011 13:26 |
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mike miller
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| lance wrote on Tue, 18 October 2011 08:51 |
So guys, what am I doing wrong here? ...
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The market is down and I do not think it will "recover" very soon... if ever. But coaches are selling... some for fairly "good" prices. With some effort, you too can sell without loosing you shirt.
Like what Bob says... exposure, exposure, exposure....
BUT... the exposure has to be good.
Take out you digital camera, buy a large pack of batteries. Clean and "STAGE" the coach. Take tons of pictures. (I do not know how many digital picture it takes to make a ton... but that is how many pictures you need to take!) The worse you are at taking pictures, the more pictures you'll need to take. Remember digital pictures are CHEAP!
-- Take pictures of all your upgrades
-- Take many simulator pictures of the same thing.. shifting the camera angle or lighting slightly between shots. One shot WILL be much better than the others.
-- For staging ideas, look at motorhome magazines
-- For interior shots, you might get better pictures with it darker outside the coach.
Select the best 00.5% (or so) of the pictures and post them on one site, as your "major picture stash."
Select the best 4 to 8 shots (showing all four sides and basic layout) and post them on every sales site you can find. Then provide a link to your "major picture stash" and links to the basic GMC motorhome sites.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
(#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
More Sidekicks than GMC's and a late model Malibu called 'Boo'
http://m000035.blogspot.com
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146933 is a reply to message #146930] |
Tue, 18 October 2011 14:35 |
Bruce Hart
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Lance,
I'm in the market to buy a coach, and that what was disapointing to me was
the limited amount of pictures you have posted on Bethune, I want to see
more interior as well as exterior pictures.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Mike Miller <m000035@gmail.com> wrote:
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> lance wrote on Tue, 18 October 2011 08:51
> > So guys, what am I doing wrong here? ...
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> The market is down and I do not think it will "recover" very soon... if
> ever. But coaches are selling... some for fairly "good" prices. With some
> effort, you too can sell without loosing you shirt.
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> Like what Bob says... exposure, exposure, exposure....
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> BUT... the exposure has to be good.
>
> Take out you digital camera, buy a large pack of batteries. Clean and
> "STAGE" the coach. Take tons of pictures. (I do not know how many digital
> picture it takes to make a ton... but that is how many pictures you need to
> take!) The worse you are at taking pictures, the more pictures you'll need
> to take. Remember digital pictures are CHEAP!
>
> -- Take pictures of all your upgrades
> -- Take many simulator pictures of the same thing.. shifting the camera
> angle or lighting slightly between shots. One shot WILL be much better than
> the others.
> -- For staging ideas, look at motorhome magazines
> -- For interior shots, you might get better pictures with it darker outside
> the coach.
>
> Select the best 00.5% (or so) of the pictures and post them on one site, as
> your "major picture stash."
>
> Select the best 4 to 8 shots (showing all four sides and basic layout) and
> post them on every sales site you can find. Then provide a link to your
> "major picture stash" and links to the basic GMC motorhome sites.
> --
> Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
> (#1)'73 26' exPainted D. -- (#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23'
> Birchaven Side Bath
> http://m000035.blogspot.com
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1977 28' Kingsley
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146954 is a reply to message #146933] |
Tue, 18 October 2011 18:05 |
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mike miller
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| Bruce Hart wrote on Tue, 18 October 2011 12:35 |
Lance,
I'm in the market to buy a coach, and that what was disapointing to me was
the limited amount of pictures you have posted on Bethune, I want to see
more interior as well as exterior pictures. ...
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As it had not been posted, here is a link to lance's ad:
<http://www.bethunesales.com/listings/vonprum.html>
Lance,
Understand this is "constructive criticism," meant to help you sell your coach for the best price you can get.
Pictures mean a lot to people who are to far to drive in an hour or so. Be honest, if you only looked at the pictures in the above ad, would YOU pay $12k?
The write-up helps, with all the new parts you have listed. But to many "older" RV'ers, if a part had EVER been replaced, they list it as "new." For example: It might have had a refer put in in the '80's, so it gets listed as "new." So many buyers have learned not to put to much stock into the word "new." A picture of a nice shiny part, is a little more convincing.
Exterior pictures of the coach in an interesting place or "in action" are always preferable to storage locations. (But a warehouse lot is better than a cow pasture!)
You state "Interior professionally redone" but there isn't any picture showing anything of the interior where the couch or dinette used to be. The floor on the steps doesn't look like it is covered and doesn't match the floor in the kitchen. As a result, the pictures in the above ad make it look like there isn't anything between the kitchen/entrance door and the steps other than a couple of propane tanks. If you where buying a coach, could you justify the price to YOUR wife (to many owners, the CFO) without a couch or somewhere to sit and eat?
I understand many sites have a limit to the number of pictures. That is why I recommended you to post most of your pictures on a separate site and provide a link to them in your ad. Do not make your perspective buyer work/search to find information on YOUR coach. (They might find someone else's coach.... maybe even an SOB!)
Remember: Regardless of the long list of new parts and upgrades, your ad has to give the perspective owner the ability to justify the asking price to HIS CFO.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
(#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
More Sidekicks than GMC's and a late model Malibu called 'Boo'
http://m000035.blogspot.com
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #146965 is a reply to message #146954] |
Tue, 18 October 2011 19:47 |
lance
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Thanks for all the constructive responses. Most replies mention more photos. Bethune is very limited in both description and photos but I have dozens. I've asked how to post photos on this site but no one has replied with instructions on how to post photos. If I could do that I could just include a link. Can anyone help with instructions to post photos, please. Thanks again to all who want to help and share. What a wonderful group.
1974 Palm Beach
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| Re: 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #147031 is a reply to message #146982] |
Wed, 19 October 2011 06:39 |
lance
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Rick,
The propane cylinder was simply set inside the coach to keep it out of the Washington winter weather when the coach was in storage for a very short time. The coach is finished and ready for your personal touches. Contact me for more info.
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #147060 is a reply to message #146965] |
Wed, 19 October 2011 13:24 |
hertfordnc
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| lance wrote on Tue, 18 October 2011 19:47 |
Thanks for all the constructive responses. Most replies mention more photos. Bethune is very limited in both description and photos but I have dozens. I've asked how to post photos on this site but no one has replied with instructions on how to post photos. If I could do that I could just include a link. Can anyone help with instructions to post photos, please. Thanks again to all who want to help and share. What a wonderful group.
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Send me all the photos you want, as large as you want along with every bit of useful information you want to share I will host the whole thing indefinately.
I'm a photgrapher and I lease a lot of server space to post photos and I hate small pictures.
I did this for a friend selling a Travco- these were all the pics he could get to me, but you get the idea:
http://oldrv.net/travco/
Also, SELL THE GMC. Answer every question a newbie might have.
Forgive me if this was already covered, i didn't have time to read this whole thread.
Include links to the best GMC info including a little blog post I did. on oldrv.net.
There'sa certain number of people looking for a GMC there is a much bigger number of people with only $12K and they have really limited choices.
But they need to reassured about the resources available within this community.
email to uscgphoto at gmail dot com
Big attachments are no problem.
Dave
Dave & Ellen Silva
Hertford, NC
76 Birchaven, 1-ton and other stuff
Currently planning the Great american Road Trip Summer 2021
It's gonna take a lot of Adderall to get this thing right.
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| Re: 1976 Palm Beach price reduced! [message #147175 is a reply to message #147112] |
Thu, 20 October 2011 08:23 |
hertfordnc
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Here's what i put up for Lance:
http://oldrv.net/2011/10/classic-gmc-motorhome-sale/
It occurs to me that this might be a cool way to get traffic to my site as sellers post links on craigslist and other places.
I'd be open to doing this again if anyone is selling.
I could probably flesh out the text a bit more by explaining why this is a much better use of $12K than a comparably priced SOB.
Dave & Ellen Silva
Hertford, NC
76 Birchaven, 1-ton and other stuff
Currently planning the Great american Road Trip Summer 2021
It's gonna take a lot of Adderall to get this thing right.
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