Buying Advice Wrong time to buy?

[trywhisper]

Being a first time tractor buyer,I've been looking into the 35 to 40 Hp range, and now that the new year has begun it seems as though the prices have gone up!?!? Is there a wrong or right time to buy? I was looking at Kubota, Newholland, and Bobcat,( being the dealers closest to me) and they have all gone up. So I searched the Kioti some and found a dk40se HST for 19900, I don't want to jump into something just for fear of prices going up even more than they have. So some suggestions would be some help.......thanks

 

[timswi]

Being a first time tractor buyer,I've been looking into the 35 to 40 Hp range, and now that the new year has begun it seems as though the prices have gone up!?!? Is there a wrong or right time to buy? I was looking at Kubota, Newholland, and Bobcat,( being the dealers closest to me) and they have all gone up. So I searched the Kioti some and found a dk40se HST for 19900, I don't want to jump into something just for fear of prices going up even more than they have. So some suggestions would be some help.......thanks

Personally, I've never seen a really good time or really bad time to buy. Sometimes you can get a 0% financing deal if stuff isn't moving. That's worth some money right there.

Some dealers will work with you on machines that are laying around. Others may have better trade in values depending on their demographics for used machines.

After all of the shopping I've done, I really haven't found a killer deal at one dealer over another. They have to keep the lights on too.

As far as prices going up...Inflation takes care of that. Although, I've found that the prices generally don't jump by absurd amounts unless the new model is vastly superior to the previous model.

Get a number in your head, then go try to get as close to that as you can digest.

Good Luck.

 

[trywhisper]

Well the Bobcat jumped almost 3k, the Kubota about 2k, the killer is these are the "exact" same tractors I looked at in December. So I don't know if I have sucker written on my forehead, or if these jumps are true to the spring time inflated prices I've heard of.

 

[arsenix2001]

I know kubota has reduced 0% financing from 60 months down to 48 for most units aside from obsolete models.

 

[shane]

Maybe you should consider buying used. Most of the time you can find a used one with low hours that someone is selling based on what they payed for it, not what the new market is dictating.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

It's always a good time to buy...:thumbsup:

 

[IslandTractor]

A Kioti DK40se HST with loader for under $20K seems a good price. I got mine three and a half years ago for a couple thousand less but I doubt you'll find anywhere near as much tractor for less money these days. Great tractor and outstanding loader.

 

[TripleR]

They go up about this time every year. Fortunately my dealer bases his price on what he paid, so if he bought it before the price boost, you pay less than for one he has to order.

I am in agreement with Shane, we bought two tractors last year, one new and one used. I couldn't find a good used M8540 in the short time period we had.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

tractor companies do not swing prices around like that. Somthing is up. Yes, financing changes, cash discounts change, etc.. but your talking 7-800 at the very most.

 

[Argosy]

It's inflation, everything is going up in price. America has printed trillions of dollars to buy our own debt, the dollar is worth less, you're not going to see prices drop any time soon. Even USA made products will go up in price because of raw material costs, transportation costs.

Buy now or buy used.