Pricing a PTO Tiller for Sale

[TerryR]

I haven't used my PTO tiller for several years, since we reduced the size of the garden and installed deer fencing. I'm thinking spring is a good time to list it for sale but haven't a clue how to price it.

It's a 21-year old Bush Hog RTS62 tiller, stored under cover with no significant rust but clearly weathered paint. It was used only a few hours a year for our garden and a couple of neighbors so the teeth are not badly worn. Slip clutch worked well last time it was adjusted.

I find zero listings for anything remotely comparable, so I'm looking for suggestions.

 

[Tractorable]

Good functioning implements from quality manufacturers typically go for about half the cost of new. As long as it's not rusted out and you can demonstrate that it works well it should sell for roughly half the cost of new.

 

[TerryR]

Thanks, Tractorable,

That's helpful. I paid $1,450 for it 21 years ago. I see a new one online offered for $2,450. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Here's a photo of it:


I need to dig it out and clean it up a bit.

 

[fried1765]

Thanks, Tractorable,

That's helpful. I paid $1,450 for it 21 years ago. I see a new one online offered for $2,450. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Here's a photo of it:
View attachment 540166

I need to dig it out and clean it up a bit.

Pressure wash,.... and $1250 price tag??

 

[newbury]

I haven't used my PTO tiller for several years, since we reduced the size of the garden and installed deer fencing. I'm thinking spring is a good time to list it for sale but haven't a clue how to price it.

It's a 21-year old Bush Hog RTS62 tiller, stored under cover with no significant rust but clearly weathered paint. It was used only a few hours a year for our garden and a couple of neighbors so the teeth are not badly worn. Slip clutch worked well last time it was adjusted.

I find zero listings for anything remotely comparable, so I'm looking for suggestions.

Thanks, Tractorable,

That's helpful. I paid $1,450 for it 21 years ago. I see a new one online offered for $2,450. I didn't realize they had gone up that much.

Here's a photo of it:
View attachment 540166

I need to dig it out and clean it up a bit.

I bought my 5' KK tiller about 5 years ago, similar condition, 50% discount off new. At that time and now MOST CL ads and other sale places would ask about 75% of new price for a tiller in the spring.

Look at prices on Tractorhouse, ebay etc.

And - how soon do you want to get it sold? do you want to deal with CL problems and scammers?

Set a firm 50% off new TODAY price and it might be gone tomorrow set a firm 50% off what you paid new and if you are willing to hold it for a few months I'd swing by and pick it up on my next trip from Mississippi

 

[ovrszd]

I'm with fried, detail clean it and ask $1250 firmly. It'll sell.

Edit: Forgot to mention, what you paid for it is irrelevant. What a new one sells for today is relevant.

 

[TerryR]

Thanks, everyone. That's very helpful.

I'm just waiting for a reasonably nice day to dig it out and pull out the pressure washer.

 

[BigBlue1]

I don't know how wide it is, but given that you can get a new good-quality 60" tiller for around $1450-$1550 (King Kutter, other brands) I really think $1250 is high. If this brand/model is well known for extra capability or extreme quality maybe I'm wrong, but as a consumer I'd never even consider a well-used 21-year-old implement for only 20% discount over comparable new. At that age and apparent visible condition I'd think 50% of the cheapest available new model would be max. But everyone thinks differently so maybe you'll luck out. Don't let me deter you from trying, I'm just offering a single datapoint of feedback.

Rob

 

[ovrszd]

You can always go down. Really hard to go up.

 

[fried1765]

I don't know how wide it is, but given that you can get a new good-quality 60" tiller for around $1450-$1550 (King Kutter, other brands) I really think $1250 is high. If this brand/model is well known for extra capability or extreme quality maybe I'm wrong, but as a consumer I'd never even consider a well-used 21-year-old implement for only 20% discount over comparable new. At that age and apparent visible condition I'd think 50% of the cheapest available new model would be max. But everyone thinks differently so maybe you'll luck out. Don't let me deter you from trying, I'm just offering a single datapoint of feedback.

Rob

If a new Bush Hog brand is $2450 (+tax?), then a used one, in what appears to be excellent condition, should be worth $1250.
A 60" KK tiller at Blain's Farm & Fleet (usually the cheapest seller) is $1589 + shipping ($134?)
I have a 60" KK, and I do like it.
That said: Bush Hog products are known to be of highest quality, and the $1250 price would also be tax free.
The used Bush Hog (at $1250) would thus likely have a cost advantage of more than $580, over the new KK.