Thanks Red Rebel, I have just emailed Trading standards to get there advice, hope they can help. We are going to site at weekend for our 2 weeks hols, so i think i will go in for an explanation face to face rather than over the phone. its obviously their way off getting van owners to part with even more money and upgrade to a newer one. Thanks

We bought a static caravan 2 years ago on a caravan site in Wales that was for sale for £10,000, we offered £6000 and got it. We have been renting it out this year as times are hard, but we have had so many problems it hasnt been worth the hassle. Anyway we decided a couple of weeks ago we could no longer afford the £3700 a year that it cost us to keep it there. I rang the site office to enquire how much they would give us for it and was told it was worth nothing. I said i would then try and sell it myself privatley - to be then told no you cant its to old to be left on the site. we was told when buying it, it was a 94 or 95 but have now been told its actually a 1992 which means as it is over 15 years old it cannot be re-sold on. They informed me they could sell it to a trader for a couple of hundred pounds, making us £6000 out of pocket in two years. At first we accepted this information, but after thinking about it, they had actually sold us a caravan that was already 15 years old, they were allowed to do it, but were not. So basically the moment we parted with the money we would not ever be able to re-sell it. We were not told this when purchasing the caravan, if we were we would have not parted with a penny. We feel really ripped off by these people, i rang the site to query this and was told sorry the salesman longer works for the company. If the site has a policy - that no caravans can be sold that are over 15 years old does this only apply to the caravan owners or should they be sticking to the same policy? they have said if we keep it and dont re sell it , it can be left on the site but it cant be transfered to anyone else - alternatively if we wanted to buy another one fom them they would give us a very good trade in price. Does anyone know if there allowed to do this? We were never given any documents when purchasing we just had to sign a form saying we would pay site fees etc. Help Anyone - we cant afford to loose that amount of money. Thanks