JimFromCanmore
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Hey Escapers! I just posted a listing for an older 17 ft, and before I did that, I used some of my work experience to see if I could estimate a price for the unit. I looked over a number of listings and recorded the asking price and age and the options that the units had. I ended up creating an Excel file (Dropbox), and saw that the adjusted listings made a really nice line on the chart below! It helped me price our unit, because I had no clue otherwise. (...if you know trailers, and know how to price them without all of this fooling around, I am impressed!)
I decided to post this work on the Forum, in case others are scratching their heads about pricing. You need to know Excel to make sense of the spreadsheet (or find a friend that does), but if you do know Excel it is pretty simple and you will be able to adapt it for your model or year.
I put this description of how the Excel works in our sales document, so you can refer to this and the marked columns in the spreadsheet to understand it. I didn't show all the columns in our document.
Hope this is useful to the community!
Column B Model Sub shows which trailers are Model A (without bathroom which is $1,700US less than the reference model), or are Model B. This is reflected in Column E USD 2025 Model Adj.
Column C Options shows other options in the trailer, and Column D USD 2025 Options shows what those options would cost on a 2025 model
I used the following adjustments (USD) for units with options, from the new 2025 trailer build page on Escape’s website:
Column G Adjusted Asking Price USD takes the web listing asking price (not shown in the table) - converted from CDN to USD at an exchange of 1.43 if needed - and adds the Column F adjustment.
It is the estimated price for a 17 foot Escape reference model of any given year.
I decided to post this work on the Forum, in case others are scratching their heads about pricing. You need to know Excel to make sense of the spreadsheet (or find a friend that does), but if you do know Excel it is pretty simple and you will be able to adapt it for your model or year.
I put this description of how the Excel works in our sales document, so you can refer to this and the marked columns in the spreadsheet to understand it. I didn't show all the columns in our document.
Hope this is useful to the community!
Column B Model Sub shows which trailers are Model A (without bathroom which is $1,700US less than the reference model), or are Model B. This is reflected in Column E USD 2025 Model Adj.
Column C Options shows other options in the trailer, and Column D USD 2025 Options shows what those options would cost on a 2025 model
I used the following adjustments (USD) for units with options, from the new 2025 trailer build page on Escape’s website:
- dual 6 volt batteries +280
- removable power cord +170
- manual awning +280
- LED lights (4) +165
- drop leaf counter +90
- winterized +1,500
- air conditioning +1,500
- solar panels +1,100
- lithium battery (1) +1,500
Column G Adjusted Asking Price USD takes the web listing asking price (not shown in the table) - converted from CDN to USD at an exchange of 1.43 if needed - and adds the Column F adjustment.
It is the estimated price for a 17 foot Escape reference model of any given year.
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