Hi friends:


We finally sold our truck-camper. It was a long and difficult proccess, not to be recomended to anyone. But if you are trying to sell your vehicle, or know somebody who is, here are some tips.


Selling the camper was not too hard. Ours was a slide-on camper; the ones that you carry on a pick-up truck. Because of this, there is no registration or plates, so you can sell it, without having to nationalise it. You will find a good market for this kind of units in Argentina or Chile. You can try these:


www.vivastreet.cl
www.rodanteando.com.ar/foro
www.mercadolibre.com.ar
www.mercadolibre.cl


For us the best was rodanteando. It is a forum of a big community of argentinian campers; and they are prepared to pay high prices for a good unit, we made a 2300 USD profit on ours (a Sun-Lite Eagle with a pop-up roof).


Selling the truck was much more difficult. Ours was a Ford F250 Diesel 4x4. It is illegal to import vehicles in most South-American countries. You can try Paraguay, or the duty-free zones of Northern and Southern Chile; some people say Bolivia is also possible. We tried in Paraguay, and it took more than six weeks to have any offers. We advertised in the web, in newspapers, even TV and radio!!! but it was more or less useless. We tried:


www.clasipar.com.py
Newspapers: ABC and Ultima Hora (includes TV) in Asuncion
Radio: LaVoz del Chaco, aimed at the Mennonites, based in Filadelfia


We visited many of the big dealers in Asuncion, but still no luck.


Finally we decided to try in Encarnacion; and bingo!!! we got two good offers in two days, from two different dealers. The prices were reasonable, just 500USD less than we had paid in Florida two years before.


These are the dealers:


Deivi Hamann (SPEAKS GERMAN)
(0985) 798744
deivihamann@hotmail.com


Guillermo Zungri
(0994) 851842
guille.zungri@hotmail.com


We went with Deivi, and we know it was a good choice because he made everything so easy for us. He tested our vehicle in the morning, in the aftenoon we went to a escribania (notary) where we signed a contract in which we sold the vehicle to him, and we were discharged of any responsabilities concerning it; next morning we went to the customs office for a couple of signatures, and it was finished. After that, he takes over and deals with all formalities.


On the other hand, Guillermo wanted us to go together with him thru the nationalization proccess, which can take up to 45 days.


Theoretically it is legal to import a vehicle into Paraguay only when it is less than 10 years old (ours was 9); but when we asked, both said that they can also import older vehicles, they just have to pay a “fine” (we wonder what that is?).


We asked to both of them, and they said they would be happy to hear from travellers who are trying to sell their vehicles; no matter if it is american or european.


Josu ta Ana


PD.: if you want any more info you can contact us at


foritopopeye@yahoo.com