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Capt._Chaos
August 13th, 2008, 16:08
By Roland Jones
MSNBC
updated 10:51 a.m. CT, Wed., Aug. 13, 2008

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These are the dog days of summer at the Lazydays RV supercenter in Seffner, Fla. The huge center for motor homes and travel trailers just off Interstate 4 east of Tampa — which bills itself as the nation’s largest single-site recreational vehicle dealer — is feeling the bite of the economic downturn.
Lazydays laid off 75 employees, or about 15 percent of its work force, on July 9, blaming the “current uncertain economic conditions combined with a significant downturn in RV demand,” according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Uturn2001
August 15th, 2008, 14:11
While hunting for a camper I have noticed larger travel trailers, 5th wheels, and motor homes of all classes dropping in price while the smaller travel trailers and tent campers have been steadily climbing, on the used market anyway.