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General Discussion / Our Phoenix Cruisers compared to other rigs
« on: February 03, 2016, 08:27:28 pm »
Well, it was a beautiful day in Oklahoma with totally clear skies and a high this afternoon in the high 40s and low 50s. So, I decided to drive over from Oklahoma City to Tulsa (about 100 miles away and mostly turnpike so a quick and easy trip) and go to the Tulsa Boat and RV Show adn grab lunch at a great Lebanese joint that has been there forever. . Their shows are always in a building on the fairgrounds that was built in the 1960s and is over 350,000 square feet of open spanned construction. When it was built in the Sixties, it was the largest unobstructed spanned building in the world. No pillars and quite a great building for a show. That is over eight acres of floor space.
First of all, who would have thought Okies would buy a yacht in Tulsa for over two million bucks? Well, they sold it. It was huge. Buyers buy these things here and then float them down the Arkansas River (at Tulsa's port) and down to the Mississippi and on into the Gulf. And we thought our toys were expensive! They had two of them and they just dominated the bass boats, ski rigs etc. Bet you didn't know Oklahoma has an outlet to the oceans of the world!.
Lots of RVs including Class A, B and C as well as the "usual prisoners" of huge fifth wheels and pull behinds were present. I post about this because it is always neat to own something you love (our PC 2350) and go look at new rigs, particularly Class Cs like ours. I looked at a bunch of them today, talked one couple OUT of buying one ...the salesman was to the side, texting of course....by pointing out some inferior quality and design points on what they were looking at in the rig. It was their first RV. I wasn't obnoxious about it, just pointed out the features and told them about Phoenix. They wrote down the website and went home to take a look.
Isn't it wonderful to own a tried and true design built by a company that obviously cares? After owning a PC, lets face it: many of the "competitive" sized and styled Class Cs are inferior in quality and attention to detail. Most RV manufacturers are now owned by private equity companies or publicly held companies and they simply do not have the quality because their goal is a fraction of a cent of earnings per share a quarter. How sad.
Aren't you glad you own a Phoenix Cruiser? I am!
Paul
First of all, who would have thought Okies would buy a yacht in Tulsa for over two million bucks? Well, they sold it. It was huge. Buyers buy these things here and then float them down the Arkansas River (at Tulsa's port) and down to the Mississippi and on into the Gulf. And we thought our toys were expensive! They had two of them and they just dominated the bass boats, ski rigs etc. Bet you didn't know Oklahoma has an outlet to the oceans of the world!.
Lots of RVs including Class A, B and C as well as the "usual prisoners" of huge fifth wheels and pull behinds were present. I post about this because it is always neat to own something you love (our PC 2350) and go look at new rigs, particularly Class Cs like ours. I looked at a bunch of them today, talked one couple OUT of buying one ...the salesman was to the side, texting of course....by pointing out some inferior quality and design points on what they were looking at in the rig. It was their first RV. I wasn't obnoxious about it, just pointed out the features and told them about Phoenix. They wrote down the website and went home to take a look.
Isn't it wonderful to own a tried and true design built by a company that obviously cares? After owning a PC, lets face it: many of the "competitive" sized and styled Class Cs are inferior in quality and attention to detail. Most RV manufacturers are now owned by private equity companies or publicly held companies and they simply do not have the quality because their goal is a fraction of a cent of earnings per share a quarter. How sad.
Aren't you glad you own a Phoenix Cruiser? I am!
Paul