John Deere's poor dealership decision making IMO.

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

You obviously have an ax to grind with JD. What did they do? Fire you? Repossess the tractor you bought but couldn’t afford? Did your wife run off with a JD exec? Are you a failed dealer who couldn’t hack it? Just need attention and don’t know a positive way to get it?

Brand bashing on here is not entirely unheard of but yours goes to the extreme. Usually there is an underlying cause for such animosity.

There is help for your troubles. Maybe not here but somewhere.

Two bit score-You are reading something into this that is not there. There is no ax to grind and I'm not bashing any brand. I have simply commented on what other members have said and have shared my own experiences and opinions. However, that seems to bother or offend you. You like some other members on this forum are treating these tractor brands like football teams and that's not what they are.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

He has a parallel attack on Kubota in a different thread. A few of us have added him to our ignore list. The results are refreshing.

Yet you and your friends continue to come to my thread on a daily basis and attack me

 

[JWR]

My notification email says that Rick B posted as follows:

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YET THIS DOES NOT SHOW IN THE THREAD on TBN. What's going on? Delays ? Censoring ? I surely hope not ...

 

[RickB]

My notification email says that Rick B posted as follows:

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YET THIS DOES NOT SHOW IN THE THREAD on TBN. What's going on? Delays ? Censoring ? I surely hope not ...

I went back and deleted that post myself a very few minutes later because I decided feeding this chronic troll was a poor choice on my part.

 

[JWR]

I went back and deleted that post myself a very few minutes later because...

OH, That possibility didn't occur to me. Sorry. Not meaning to butt in. TBN really ought to have like/dislike or thumbs up or some way for users to indicate agree or disagree without doing a whole new post. Consider this my Thumbs Up.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

OH, That possibility didn't occur to me. Sorry. Not meaning to butt in. TBN really ought to have like/dislike or thumbs up or some way for users to indicate agree or disagree without doing a whole new post. Consider this my Thumbs Up.

 

[Wagtail]

My statement was in reference to JD's national customer service.

Who's "national" customer service are you referring to?

As I said, very earlier in this thread, my 'State wide' JD customer service has been exemplary. Around here a dealership, any colour, lives and dies on their reputation.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I just saw this post, didn't read all 200 posts but I'm very happy with my Deere I got three years ago and a couple warranty issues.
The last were leaking FEL cylinders which the dealer repacked. A couple days later leaking again so I called Deere, suggested they send me two new cylinders which they did and I installed them.
I've been pleased with my tractor and dealer.

 

[buck12]

I do not know the ends and outs of how John Deere operates but I have seen good and bad from a distance. The good is JD partners with community colleges to train technicians. I know some young people who have done this and are making a decent living working for JD dealerships. Many of the independent JD dealerships in my part of the state in recent years have been bought out by one company. I have no idea if this was forced or if the independent guys just wanted out. I do know one guy that was a salesperson for an independent dealership. The day the his dealership was bought he was told his commission would be cut considerably so he choose a different way to make a living.

I think the days of small town America are gone. At one time you went to church with the guy that owned car or tractor dealership and knew who you could trust now everything is corporate, that is just how it is.

 

[ultrarunner]

I think the days of small town America are gone. At one time you went to church with the guy that owned car or tractor dealership and knew who you could trust now everything is corporate, that is just how it is.

I think you are spot on and what those old enough remember...

My family has roots in the car business going back to the 1920痴.

To my grandfather痴 last day he had his residence address and phone number on his business card and so did my father... my grandfather owned the dealership.

Grandpa explained it like this... auto sales is person to person based on trust and having your home address and phone on your business card drives that home.