Group deal on Venture Trailers - need 5 orders

TenMile

TenMile

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Hey guys,

I was looking around for a new trailer and found a dealer in Baltimore offering excellent pricing. He's offering a 27-30' Venture tandem axle aluminum trailer with load capacity of 8725lbs for $3,477 plus an option for Electric over Hydraulic brakes on 4 disks and breakaway provision for $995.

He also has 23-26' trailers for $2449 and 29-33' for $4799.

He is a dealer for the entire Venture trailer line: http://www.venturetrailers.com/products.html

I've asked him about shipping these trailers to Washington State for a group order. Individual trailer shipping would be $1500, however, for 5 trailers shipping would be $600 each.

Their website is http://emimarineinc.com/ -- contact them directly to get pricing for your specific rig.

There is also a dealer in Wa that stocks a limited number of trailers but is willing to order for a group shipment as well. Pricing is similar.

Reply back if a group shipment is something you'd seriously consider. If there are more than 5, we might be able to leverage a group discount as well. You'll need to place your own order with them but hold tight doing so until we get firm numbers.
 
Ive been thinking about getting a new trailer.. How is the order looking.. Ive got a 24ft boat
 
Hello,

I see that you posted this way back in April. Are you still looking for the group order, or is it done already? We may be interested in participating if it is still happening. I spoke recently with a Venture dealer in Washington state, (Word Boats, in Spanaway) is that the dealer that you referred to there?

Thanks

TenMile said:
Hey guys,

I was looking around for a new trailer and found a dealer in Baltimore offering excellent pricing. He's offering a 27-30' Venture tandem axle aluminum trailer with load capacity of 8725lbs for $3,477 plus an option for Electric over Hydraulic brakes on 4 disks and breakaway provision for $995.

He also has 23-26' trailers for $2449 and 29-33' for $4799.

He is a dealer for the entire Venture trailer line: http://www.venturetrailers.com/products.html

I've asked him about shipping these trailers to Washington State for a group order. Individual trailer shipping would be $1500, however, for 5 trailers shipping would be $600 each.

Their website is http://emimarineinc.com/ -- contact them directly to get pricing for your specific rig.

There is also a dealer in Wa that stocks a limited number of trailers but is willing to order for a group shipment as well. Pricing is similar.

Reply back if a group shipment is something you'd seriously consider. If there are more than 5, we might be able to leverage a group discount as well. You'll need to place your own order with them but hold tight doing so until we get firm numbers.
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Im going to be guying a trailer within a month.... so if this is still alive I would be interested...

I never heard anything back the first time it came up...

Cheers
 
Hello,

We are seriously interested in buying a trailer. If there are five of us that could put in an order and get a break on shipping, and some sort of group discount, that would be great. Personally, I would prefer dealing with someone a little more local, like the dealer in Washington, rather than in Baltimore. I have spoken over the phone with Sandy at Word Boats in Spanaway and he did say that he sells a lot of boats and Venture trailers to people in B.C. I don't know if this is the dealer referred to by TenMile. We are not in a rush, so we would be willing to wait until we have a group. So, at the present moment, there are at least two parties interested, it seems. Anyone else out there interested?
Take care.
 
Hey guys,

I decided a while back to go with a Plan B. Got myself a new boat back in the spring so I no longer need a trailer.
 
Its always difficult to do group deals... Ill probably just bite the bullet and buy locally... maybe someone wants to buy a trailer at the same time as me... Am sure we could save a few bucks that way... Im looking to buy now or at the latest December...
Send a PM, if anyone else is looking for a new trailer..

Cheers

btw. Your plan "B" looked pretty darn nice....
 
What are the going rates locally for trailers? Alum vs steel?. Considering building some for sale but needs to be some room in it to make some money at the same time not kill everyone with massive pricing hikes. I can by reading this thread see the need for single axles, duals, and possible tri axles.
Pricing would depend on materials pricing as well, of course the more bought and ordered at once drops the pricing a bit, because there's possibility for materials discounting based on volume with materials.
 
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Well Ive thinking about a 2/axle trailer from the states "Tuff" trailers...(8000lbs rating) aluminum with electric over hydrolic brakes.. SS components with brakes and bearings which are guarranteed for 5 years.... 7k with Taxes I think... seems expensive to me but I hope its a case of you get what you pay for... I do trailer quite a bit so its piece of mind...
 
Yeah In all honesty 7k is about right when you think about it. The problem is materials cost has gone up the same as anything in this world, so it's hard to get a really good deal on alum, or ss for that matter unless you buy volume, and no one wants to sit on stock as that's money out of pocket. Throw in the electric over hydrolic brakes with some ss components and it would seem about right. I've only briefly looked at the market so far but I will be doing far more research. A trailer is a doable build for a good product, as it's purely structural, and the angles are very simple.

What concerns me only about your post, and may concern you when you think about it was the part "SS components with brakes and bearings which are guarranteed for 5 years...."...

It's probably quite easy to roast a set of bearings in that time frame if you do alot of trailering, and I would double check the warranty to make sure you don't have to bring it all the way back to the states to honor that.. If it's something they will send you in the mail you're in good shape. Just make sure for yourself before you buy. A trailer is a pretty big investment when you start thinking anything over single axle.

The actual price at 7k taxes in is pretty decent but most builders local could probably match that. Depends also on rims and tires and what not.
 
I bought a single axle 2600# aluminum Tuff Trailer from the distributor in Abbotsford for $1995. Seemed like a decent price. No brakes. Already have a tail light out. Easy enough to replace though, so not a huge deal. The quality seems to be a little less than the Road Runner, Eazy Loader, etc.... But I needed a trailer, as I bought a boat that didn't have one. They had one in stock that looked like it would do the job. So far it's been fine.
 
Yeah that was my next question.. What the quality was like. I was looking very closely at an EZ Loader today, and was thinking the quality would be similar for the 7k. The EZ Loader I was looking at was a decent 3x4 HSS framework. Lights can go the first time you put a trailer in the water so don't count on them lasting. I've tried sealing lights with everything from silicon to hot glue, and the stuff still gets in somehow. Have a healed 3rd degree hot glue burn to prove that haha.
 
get together and call mike at roadrunner. i am sure he would put a group by together....local,local,local!!!!!
 
FishBC.org said:
Lights can go the first time you put a trailer in the water so don't count on them lasting. I've tried sealing lights with everything from silicon to hot glue, and the stuff still gets in somehow.
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I tried sealing the lights on my first trailer and water got in and was trapped in there and caused more problems. My current trailer has standard lights with drain holes to allow the water to escape and have not had any issues. I always unplug the lights before backing her in. I imagine the salt water is harder on lights than fresh.
 
Group deal?

Still interested in possibly going in on a group deal, but it does look a bit problematic.

Our boat is 8ft by 23ft, about 5,500 lbs wet. The boat is a Coaster 23, rare, from the early 80's in case anyone remembers those. (So, a Venture 5925 should work) But has a full keel, so the trailer would need raised supports for the bunks. I confess, I know little about trailers, but I have looked at a lot of discussions, and it does look like staying away from a box beam is a good idea. I do like the idea of aluminum, in an I beam for the structure.

Highliner is locally built, and seems well built, but I seem to recall they used a box beam, is that so? I don't know how their bearings and brakes stand up. I do prefer the idea of local, but the pricing has to work too.
 
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