How much does a Scamp trailer cost?

This is the whole page. A trailer you order is a trailer you configure, and configuring it is not a step that happens after the price is settled, it is how the price gets settled. So the base figure is a starting line rather than a quote, and every buyer who has one in their head has a number that is true about a trailer they are not going to order. At our defaults the base is $25,000 and the landed figure is $33,500, which puts $8,500 outside the number the buyer arrived with: the options, the state's cut, a hitch, and the trip to go and get it. None of that is hidden and none of it is a surprise in the sense of being unknowable. Every line of it can be priced before you order. It is just that the base is the part that travels from person to person and the rest is the part you meet later, one item at a time, when the decision is already made.

The trap in a build sheet is structural rather than a failure of anybody's willpower. Each option is small against the base price, so each one clears the bar on its own merits, and the sheet is long, and nothing on it ever asks you to look at the running total. At our defaults the options are $5,000 against a $25,000 base, which is a fifth of the trailer, assembled entirely out of decisions that felt minor while you were making them. Total your own sheet before you order, because this is the line you have the most power over and it stops being yours the moment the build starts. It is worth splitting the list into what changes how you use the trailer and what changes how it looks: both cost the same kind of money, and only one of them keeps paying you back on the nights you are actually in it.

Factory-direct means the trailer does not come to you. Somebody drives to it, tows it back, and sleeps somewhere in between, and at our defaults that is $1,200 of fuel, wear and beds, plus days you do not get back and which this ledger does not try to price. The reason it goes missing is that it does not look like part of the purchase: it looks like a road trip, and road trips are not what people budget against a trailer. Two things follow. First, the return leg is not the outbound leg, because you are towing, so it is slower and it costs more per mile. Second, and this is the useful part, you cannot judge a delivery quote until this number exists. A quote is not expensive or cheap on its own, it is expensive or cheap against the trip it saves you, and the trip is the figure this page just built for you.

They are also the two you would most like us to print, so it is worth saying plainly why they are absent. A built-to-order trailer means a wait, and the wait is genuinely part of what you are choosing, since it is the difference between owning one this season and owning one next. This page does not tell you how long it is, because we have not measured it and a made-up figure would be treated as a fact. Ask the factory, and ask when you order rather than when you enquire. Resale is the same story with more folklore attached to it: you will find confident claims about what these hold with little measured underneath them. You can do better than any average we could publish. Look up what your length and layout, at the age you plan to sell, is selling for right now, and use what buyers pay rather than what sellers ask. If it comes in high, then the case for the trailer just got made with evidence rather than with reputation, which is how this page would rather see it made.

The trailer itself is a factory quote against the length, the layout and the options you tick, so this page leaves that figure to the factory rather than inventing one to stand in for it. What the page adds is the part the base price cannot show you, which is what it costs to actually have one. A built-to-order trailer is configured rather than bought, so the options are a large share of the price rather than extras beside it, and then there is the state's tax and title, a hitch if your vehicle is not ready, and the trip to go and collect it, because factory-direct means it does not come to you. Put your figures into the form above and you get the landed total and how far it sits above the base. At our defaults that gap is $8,500 on a $25,000 base, which is worth knowing before you order rather than after.

Because they are describing different trailers, and usually without realising it. The base figure is a specific configuration at a specific length, and almost nobody orders that configuration: they order it with the things they wanted, which is the point of ordering. So the number that travels from person to person is true and it is also not about the trailer you are going to have. The other half of the gap is that a purchase is not a price. Your state takes its cut when you register it, your vehicle may need a hitch and wiring, and somebody has to go and fetch the thing. At our defaults those pieces plus the options come to $8,500 on top of a $25,000 base, and every one of them is knowable before you order. Fill the boxes above with your own figures and you will have a landed number to compare against other people's base prices, which is the comparison that means something.

Run the trip above first, then go and get a quote, and compare the two. That order matters, because a delivery quote sounds like a lot of money in isolation and it is not in isolation: it is standing against a trip that costs fuel, wear, nights on the road and days of your life, which at our defaults is $1,200 before the days. Plenty of buyers discover the quote is close to what fetching it would have cost, and some discover it is not, and both of those are useful answers you cannot reach without the number. There are real considerations either side of the money. Collecting it yourself means the first time you tow it is a long unfamiliar drive, which is a genuine argument for delivery if you have not towed before. It also means you see the trailer before it is yours in a way a delivery does not allow, and some buyers make the collection into the trailer's first trip, which turns the nights on this ledger from overhead into a holiday. The page will not pick for you. It will make sure you are picking with both numbers in front of you.

A vehicle is not in the total, and unlike a larger trailer that is often the right call rather than an omission, because these are light enough that the car on your driveway may well pull one. What that usually leaves is hardware rather than a vehicle: a hitch, the wiring for the lights and brakes, sometimes a controller in the cab, which is why there is a box for it above. Do not take the box as permission, though. Check it properly: take the trailer's loaded weight, which is heavier than what left the factory once water, gear and your things are in it, and compare that against your vehicle's tow rating as it is actually configured, which lives on the door jamb and in the manual rather than in the advertising. Check the tongue weight against payload separately, because the trailer presses down on the hitch and that weight is charged against payload rather than against the tow rating, and it is the limit that catches people out. If your vehicle does not clear it, then the honest price of the trailer includes changing vehicles, and that belongs in the decision even though it is not on this ledger.