aczlan
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- Joined
- Mar 7, 2008
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- Tractor
- Kubota L3830GST, B7500HST, BX2660. Formerly: Case 480F LL, David Brown 880UE
Would this be the dealer who bought out the Ontrack dealers? If so, my feeling with them has been that if you aren't buying a couple of 150k machines from them every few years, you aren't worth their time (I grew up ~5 mins from one of their locations).I had no opinion on this
UNTIL a friend bought a Kubota here in the Fingerlakes portion of upstate New York. John Deere swallowed the idea of a "MEGA Dealer" and allowed one company to buy up ALL the dealerships in the area including those that were primarily "small equipment" operations. Unless you need mower blades, the service I have experienced at 4 of the JD Mega dealer's 6 locations (they closed two others they felt were un needed) is awful. I even experienced having my 2305 returned from a transmission service with a loose drain plug. When you complain you get blown off. My most recent experience was a $150.00 bill to fix my rear flashers, when all it needed was an $8.00 diode. My only alternative thanks to JD allowing a one owner monopoly in our area is to drive over 80 miles for parts and service.
Would that be Blazeys? If so, we have had similar experiences with them. Not always the cheapest, but not unreasonably expensive either and its always done right, or they make it right.My friends experience with the local Kubota dealer is a polar opposite, COMPETENT, friendly, and helpful describe the local Kubota Dealer (who has competition within 35 miles in all 4 directions).
My parents neighbor (who is a farmer that bleeds green, curses metric stuff and has LOTS of green equipment) gets treated very well at the green dealership I mentioned above...Go figure... a monopoly doesn't feel like they need to compete..... but they forget all of us don't bleed green, or red, and may be willing to go ORANGE. They don't really care about the small tractor market and make as much off what sell as they can. I'd like to think our local farmers are treated better.
Aaron Z