Buying Advice Cabela's selling Compact Tractors

[Hiltz]

Now if we could just see new cars sold at WalMart and on Amazon. Then I would be happy.

 

[kcflhrc]

Now if we could just see new cars sold at WalMart and on Amazon. Then I would be happy.

That could actually happen. Sears actually used to sell vehicles back in the day.

 

[GManBart]

When did Cabela's become an OEM?

If you're going to nitpick, include Bobcat as well...they didn't make their tractors either. OEM or "brand" can be substituted equally for purposes of this discussion....companies selling tractors with their own name on them.

Regardless, you said the big brand names wouldn't care about an online forum. Evidently they disagree with you by being advertisers here.

 

[sparc]

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If I decided on a TYM, I would feel more secure buying from a local Cabela's. Of which there are none.
But if there were...

But soon there will be. May 1st a new Cabela's opens at the Christiana Mall in DE.

And isn't there a store in Hamburg, PA now?

There are not going to be as abundant as your local WaWa, but with 23 new stores opening over the next two years they will increase their numbers by almost 50%.

 

[kcflhrc]

Regardless, you said the big brand names wouldn't care about an online forum. Evidently they disagree with you by being advertisers here.

No, I said Cabela's wouldn't care. Get it right!

 

[GManBart]

No, I said Cabela's wouldn't care. Get it right!

There's already someone with direct ties to the Cabela's tractor line here, so you're wrong any way you look at it.

 

[jmc]

OEMs and distributors have much to offer on TBN, but it's a tightrope walk. When they come here with an objective announcement of a unique product, or new perspective on an old product, or needing product feedback, the TBN members are almost unanimously supportive. Things go awry though, when the they can't resist using that spotlight as a sales opportunity as well.

Remember the guy promoting a top link that was a passive hydraulic cylinder so you could (kinda) tweek the box blade attitude without getting off the tractor and without hydraulic connection? The whole tone of his epic thread became calling him out on his exaggerated claims rather than discussing the significant merits of that product.

On the other end of the spectrum, I always read Messick's posts. We get his perspective from TheOtherSide without feeling manipulated.

Then comes Tractor Guy. Nice to hear the BehindtheScenes story, as he knows it, of Cabela's foray into tractors but then it degenerates into chest beating about commitment and customer service, etc. As consumers, we HEAR this from many companies but SEE it from few, so we can't resist taking out our frustration on him. Add some more hyperbole about how amazing it is that the CEO of Cabela's owns a Cabela's tractor and things continue downhill.

My point here is that while Tractor Guy is disappointed in his reception by some of us, he could have handled it better on his way into it.

 

[TSO]

Here's a question: WHY is Cabela's newly marketing the Tier3 tractors instead of Tier4? Seems odd to bring these to market right at the switch. It's Cabela's trying to avoid regulations because they're not actually manufacturing them?

 

[daugen]

But soon there will be. May 1st a new Cabela's opens at the Christiana Mall in DE.

And isn't there a store in Hamburg, PA now?

There are not going to be as abundant as your local WaWa, but with 23 new stores opening over the next two years they will increase their numbers by almost 50%.

Thanks. Hamburg is more than two hours away but Wilmington DE with no sales tax is always a nice idea.
Didn't one of the major sporting goods chains bite the dust in the last few years?
Maybe Cabela is moving in to the vacuum with a more interesting line.
Cabela had better hope there is not a Walmart too close by...that same Coleman cooler is going to be much cheaper
at Walmarts, as will other commodity vs specialty items.
But Walmart likely won't have a 100 below sleeping bag, and certainly not a shiny awd tractor...

I wonder if they want to buy my late father in law's animal heads for their stores...all kinds of nice endangered African animals.
That might be like waving a fur coat in front of a PETA member.

 

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That could actually happen. Sears actually used to sell vehicles back in the day.

Ah the good old "Allstate" sold in 52-53. They also sold houses along with everything else.