Actually I did not pay one cent of sales tax. I actually traded in more dollars of tractor than I spent to purchase dollars of tractors. It doesn't matter how I did my financing to determine I traded 2 tractors valued at we'll say $21000 for one tractor valued we'll say for $20200. Cash, finance, hogs, trucks, service would be methods of payment and not a difference in the trade value.
Oh by the way. When I got to Barlows to do the paperwork there was another $500 off that a customer had found Kubota was offering and the Company hadn't informed Barlows yet plus the $300 that the reg rep had already told them about.
Have the 2 Kubotas I bought and traded back in or sold back to Barlows cost me any thing for owning one for 30 months and doing thousands of dollars of work and another one I'd owned about a year and a half and done a few hundred dollars worth of work and deducted 50% of their cost against rental income? Yes, they have cost me a few dollars but no where near as much as most people think with the Barlow discount and "Special" price from Kubota I get plus the trade in price Barlows gives me back for the clean, low hours trade ins.
What I pay is nowhere near what the Build your own price shows. Figure it your self when I can sell a F2680e 60" deck for $12000 and get another at what will amount to a small monthly cost plus it's a 100% business machine and with the deduction I may even be making money which won't be recaptured since I'll be trading it to Barlows for another one for 100% business use.
I am a salesmans delight as long as they give me fair prices at the sale and at the trade. Car/truck salesman know they have one or two shots to earn my return to them business. I don't return for business after two bad trade/purchase offers for a few years. Do I ever return? Yes but much time has to pass. I expect a business to make a profit just not all for the day on me. I don't haggle or rarely offer less than the figure they give me. If they are way high I just say thanks and leave. If the do it again I just say thanks and that's 2 and leave or start leaving which usually brings another offer from the seller. If not then I'm gone for a few years.
Have never left Barlows without trading when a price was given for the purchase tractor and the trade tractor. We've never swapped prices on the F models which is why I'm offering them for sale. I did get a used purchase range on a gas Kubota mower one time but it wasn't an actual offer and I sold it privately. The gas mowers are price droppers but I have found that not so with the smaller tractors.
