dieselsmoke1
Platinum Member
After watching this forum for awhile and participating recently, one thing has become very clear to me.
Tractor owners, as a whole, bound to be the most brand loyal folks on God's green earth. Lots of folks struggle to understand how anyone can logically decide to purchase a color other than theirs.
For some folks, nothing will do but the "Gold Standard". This group is fiercly loyal to their brands, as well they should be. They've purchased a premium product at a premium price and should be proud.
Some folks are motivated primarily by initial cost. They are also a very loyal group, being quite proud of the fact that their color can essentially perform the same tasks as a "Gold Standard", and do it for less than half the initial costs.
Others fall somewhere in the middle, shopping and comparing till the colors seem to blur together. These folks search between the extremes for what they perceive as the best option, and are more than happy to extol the virtues of their selection.
Some folks take the easy route and simply "follow the herd" to one end of the extreme or the other.
All these folks share one common theme. They purchased what they considered to be the BEST VALUE. VALUE is based on perception, and perception is reality to the beholder. VALUE has no specific price point. You can get a good VALUE on a $2.00 pair of pliers or a $2,000,000 estate. It's all relative.
Some color owners cannot abide another color challenging their lofty status. Other color owners may fiercly defend their's from others that would consider their color inferior. Fact is, if there was one color that was right for everyone, there probably wouldn't be but one color sold.
My perception of value will be different from yours, just as yours will be different from the next person. That doesn't make either of us right or wrong, just different.
Tractor owners, as a whole, bound to be the most brand loyal folks on God's green earth. Lots of folks struggle to understand how anyone can logically decide to purchase a color other than theirs.
For some folks, nothing will do but the "Gold Standard". This group is fiercly loyal to their brands, as well they should be. They've purchased a premium product at a premium price and should be proud.
Some folks are motivated primarily by initial cost. They are also a very loyal group, being quite proud of the fact that their color can essentially perform the same tasks as a "Gold Standard", and do it for less than half the initial costs.
Others fall somewhere in the middle, shopping and comparing till the colors seem to blur together. These folks search between the extremes for what they perceive as the best option, and are more than happy to extol the virtues of their selection.
Some folks take the easy route and simply "follow the herd" to one end of the extreme or the other.
All these folks share one common theme. They purchased what they considered to be the BEST VALUE. VALUE is based on perception, and perception is reality to the beholder. VALUE has no specific price point. You can get a good VALUE on a $2.00 pair of pliers or a $2,000,000 estate. It's all relative.
Some color owners cannot abide another color challenging their lofty status. Other color owners may fiercly defend their's from others that would consider their color inferior. Fact is, if there was one color that was right for everyone, there probably wouldn't be but one color sold.
My perception of value will be different from yours, just as yours will be different from the next person. That doesn't make either of us right or wrong, just different.
