Auction Results-Upstate NY

[Anonymous Poster]

Hi Art,

I was just looking at your Whites Farm Supply Website…

You certainly carry some top shelf rotary cutter lines… Bush Hog, Woods, Rhino, and Schulte… {where’s Brown?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif}.

I also noticed multiple tractor lines as Case/IH, New Holland, Kubota and Cub Cadet…

Exactly how far are you from Sharon Springs? And do you have any spring or fall auctions?

I’d like to take a trip over to “Central NY” and see one of your places… /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RichZ]

Yep, people in NYC and Long Island call anything beyond The Bronx upstate, even Westchester! I always felt it was the Capital District and north. I live in Washington County, so I think I qualify to anyone! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Rich

 

[JJT]

Jim doesn't do much advertising, I've only seen these auctions in the weekly shopper. Jim may do some direct mailing. Next auction, I'll post the ad.

 

[art]

Good morning John, most all is correct but we don't sell the New Holland tractors, but we do sell Brown it just doesn't get sold enough here. We have had auctions in the past but the last couple of years we have sent machinery to some of the auctions in and around us. The auctions are good for bringing people in but we often loose several days of shop work which we never seem to have done. Our Sangerfield store is located about 40 miles further west from Sharon Springs at the intersection of 12 & 20. I joke when people ask about it but I think we have an action everyday!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>...I joke when people ask about it but I think we have an action everyday!...</font color=blue>

Art,

That just goes to show ya... now you need an auction once in a while to make money... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Advertise in the downstate papers and you'll have people fighting over "who's going to pay more than retail prices..." /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

I normally go out to Richfield Springs{Jordanville} @ the Russian monastery with my family... so I'm assuming you are just down the road a ways from there...

 

[art]

John I'm headed for Jordanville directly. We are about 25 miles from there. As far as where we do sell John we have a good following from ag farmers in VT,Conn,NH and Mass with a customer on Nantucket. We do like to know our customers and prefer the personal touch. With our eqipment auctions it is mainly ag equipment that gets sold and we have had a good draw of customers from it but there is down time to the organization and with three stores inventory to move to one site it costs us more than to take it to specific auctions and wark away. We have had people not take what they bought, not pay for what they bought,and of coarse return it several days later saying isn't what they thought they were buying. That has left a bad taste of us having an auction again. I do know what you mean about buying for more than retail as I still get to see that when I get to auctions.