JOHNTHOMAS
Super Member
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2008
- Messages
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- Location
- Somerset, Ky
- Tractor
- F2690 4WD RTV X1140 MX5400 HST ZD1211
I wound up with three choices. My old PA Kubota dealer with a branch in DE, Brady Barlow in Kentucky, and my local dealer. Brady was the least expensive but shipping to me ate up the difference with the guy in Delaware. Within a few dollars of each other. Faced with those two competitive numbers, of approx $19,600 delivered, my local dealer reduced their price to $19,400 plus tax. List of $21,816. Thousands less than what they first would have given me. Sure pays to shop around. I accepted the local dealer and sent a thank you card with a few bucks for a dinner out to the two losing quoters.
Owning a Kubota and two Masseys, I wish I lived closer to Barlow. Nice people.
And I adviced my landscaper he was no longer mowing my 8 acres, and there was a new much smaller budget for him next year. He is so busy I honestly don't think he cares.
:thumbsup: Congratulations on your wise shopping. I would pay more, maybe two to three hundred dollars more, to buy from a local dealer vs a distance dealer. Fortunately my local dealer is Barlows. Welcome to the F owners "Club". Been a "member" myself for around 10 years and have done a lot of Kubota tractor trading (BXs, Bs, Ls and RTV) during that time but have never left the F club (Or RTV Club) once I joined it. I have owned three different Fs and even bought one of those I traded back to own it twice (The 2wd F2680e). Again, so sad that it's winter and you have to wait to mow that grass but just take it out on sunny days and tell people that ask that you are just keeping the battery charged. :cool2: