CFO out of business?

[jawilson]

Saw this on another forum about CFO (Campers Factory Outlet). Wonder if it's true...

The town he is in wanted the adult bookstores on either side of Barry (owner of CFO) closed down, so they condemned all of the property. What I am hearing from folks in the town is that several other local dealers wanted them gone, so Barry was unable to find property in the location that he wanted where someone would sell to him. Hopefully he'll find something in the future in another location. In the meantime, he's been forced to liquidate.

Unfortunately a good portion of of Barry's customers don't pay Wisc. sales tax, so it is difficult to get support for his cause from the powers that be. Small town politics at its finest!

[brainpause]

Wow. All I can say is WOW.

Larry

[campingboaters]

I was on that site yesterday and noticed they had NOTHING left, but were dealing with A-liners still.  I was wondering what was going on -- and wondered if maybe R-vision had shut them down.

[chasd60]

I have purchased my campers from them so I decided to call and see what was up.
 
The common opinion by those that are in that area, is that this was driven by the desire to close down the bookstore by claiming the road needed to be widened and a sidewalk added. Also an Industrial park just so happens to be going into the area. Seems CFO and others lost out to "Eminent Domain" and are left with no place to go and a specified period of time in which to vacate the property.
 
They are actively seeking a new location and are determined to reopen as soon as possible.
 
A full 40% of their business is generated by non internet related means so they do provide revenue to the town and state as well as keep people employed, at least they did prior to this event.

[jawilson]

Thanks for the update.

You wonder why they don't put something like that on their home page. Seems like their being a bit foolish by not letting people know what's going on.

[jawilson]

This was posted on rv.net by someone familiar with the situation...

It's a done deal. Barry and Dianna have closed the doors at Campers Factory Outlet. They had a store sale the week-end before last and a semi-trailer loaded the rest of the stock last week.

This is a sad time for all of us who've done business with Barry and Dianna. I now enjoy a New Vision 5er that I would never have been able to afford had it not been for them. Also, I have several friends that have received great deals there.

IMHO there were a lot of dirty politics associated with the loss of this business in our area and the lost benefit to the RV buyers of the future.

For those of us who bought Campers and/or other RV's from them, keep in mind that (as per Barry), they always made a fair profit from every unit they sold. This should be a lesson as to how much mark-up other dealers put on these units. I know that it was Barry and Dianna's enjoyment to sell RV's and put families and first timers into deals they could never have obtained elsewhere. I personnally have witnessed many times, upgrades added by Barry to ordered units at no cost as a surprize to the buyer at the time of pick-up.

For many of us in this Neck of the Woods we will miss them a lot.