When you need a spare part for your RV or maybe a new gizmo or gadget to increase your RVing pleasure, where do you head if you want to buy it online?
Is it Amazon.com? CampingWorld.com, or your favorite RV dealer’s website? Or perhaps you prefer an independent website that specializes in RV parts and accessories like our good friends at California RV Specialists. (Yes, that’s a plug, but we like these folks and they have been very good to us.)
After you respond to the poll, would you please leave a comment?
I said Amazon because I buy the majority from them but I use e-trailer almost as much. I haven’t bought anything from Camping World for over 20 years.
Like Roy I too said Amazon however I always like to check with local dealers and if the price they charge is not too outrageously more I will buy from them.
I use all the above, depending who has the best price, availability and cheapest shipping. Most of the time it is other followed by Amazon and then Camping World in that order.
Yes, it pays to shop around. Lightening strike nearby took out both MaxxAir fans control boards. Ordered one on line, cost $175. Got second one from local RV store for $85. Identical boards.
I don’t give camping world a cent of my money. Heard way too many horror stories, including my neighbor who owns a 2023 with numerous mechanical issues that camping world, cannot/will not fix.
Try to buy locally, but sometime they just do not have the parts. Used to be online was cheaper but now with everyone charging taxes it is about the same cost so no reason to wait for shipping.
Local dealers, Dyers RV Parts and Accessories, and Amazon.
https://www.dyersonline.com/
Amazon has been my primary source for new RV parts, and accessories for the past few years. Cost and convenience have been the driving factors. 10 years ago I thought Amazon was a forest in South America!
Hi, Sven. Many years before Jeff Bezos, one of my gazillion nicknames was “Amazon,” because I was 6’2″ tall. But age and gravity have taken their toll and I’m now only about 6′ tall. (I feel very short these days standing next to my two 6’8″ sons!) Have a great day! 😀 –Diane aka Amazon aka Mountain Mama
I tend to buy all my rv supplies locally. Help support the neighbors and neighborhoods.
I try local businesses first. If they don’t have what I need, I’ll go online but avoid Amazon if at all possible as I have no desire to subscribe to Prime considering how rarely I order online anyway.
Dyers RV has done a good job for us. If we can’t find locally at decent price.
I try to support local business but if they don’t have what I need, it’s Amazon (I hate to admit!).
We get a lot of parts from Tiffin, the manufacturer of our coach.
I’ll source local first then Amazon depending on availability, price and need. I avoid Camping World like the plague after they refused to help me lift a purchase into my RV.
While I believe in supporting local businesses Amazon is my first choice in buying RV accessories in that they offer a better selection & pricing. RV dealers & parts stores have significantly higher markups. I understand they need a certain markup but the bottom line is that as the consumer I feel that I need to watch out for myself first.
Our RV is considered vintage. As such we need to surf for uncommon items. For regular items like black tank treatment or roof vents, we use amazon.
Amazon is my last resort. Having said that, I end up there as I can’t find it anywhere else.
I, formerly and prior to the Camping World takeover, would check and buy locally if possible and reasonable. Most of the time I will find it, at the right price on Ebay. It also depends fast or on how badly I need the item.
Since Marcus shorted me two months on my current Roadside Assist policy – I will no longer buy from CW. (I am also a life member of Good Sam – some 20 years!)
I do not buy from Amazon any more often than I buy from other Internet RV parts stores. So, my selection was another online retailer since Amazon is lumped in with them all.
I try to buy at the lowest price, best availability from whomever. Amazon is my LAST choice, but I occasionally do buy there.
As much as I’d love to buy from other places I mostly have to shop at Amazon unless I can find something in a store locally. Living in the camper full time and usually being in campgrounds or state parks it’s next to impossible to have anything shipped aside from using Amazon pick up counters/lockers. I’m “home” a handful of times a year and most campgrounds I stay at don’t allow deliveries.
In the past several years, starting with Covid, I’ve used Amazon and etrailer. Stopped shopping Camping World years before that, but have tried local RV dealers, but usually they do not have the part.
Local, E Trailer, Amazon.
We prefer to buy from local vendors (but not CW). Our last purchase was online through RV.net. The part arrived speedily and was very well packaged.
I make every effort to avoid patronizing Camping World. I rarely am at one of their stores, but, should I see something interesting in one of the stores, I photograph it and do a web search and an Amazon search. Should I buy it, then invariably it is from/through Amazon or eBay.
Menards surprisingly has the best price and a good selection of needed items for my RV supplies and cords and adapters, and tank treatment, mold wash for awning, etc.
I consider Menards; “local” as it employees my family and friends and its corporate is herein the US,,,,,not in China….in Wisconsin