Not so sure the same is true in the South East...my local dealer had 12 VW vans in a few weeks ago, during the sunny period; when I rocked up they had one tatty secondhand one, one half-decent secondhand one, and one new/unregistered Hillside. Apparently all the others sold in a fortnight; well, "they would say that wouldn't they?", but another new member on here also bought his van from them and said much the same.
My van is currently being built; the converters had some lovely examples in stock (all new), exactly the spec I wanted; I missed out on 3 by a day, hence me having mine built to the same spec as my favourite one I missed out on.