Dissapointment with DEERE

[Nuru]

Absa freekin lootly not. They just increase their profit margin. Shareholders oh so happy.,')

samething they did when they used prison labor to assemble lawn and garden tractors at one point in the US.

 

[Superduper]

I find it puzzling that so may people have a hard time with outsourcing to china, but few mention the outsourcing Deere has done to India. Is it because products from India are typically made better than those from China.
I've often wondered why companies don't try setting up shop in small towns with little else in them here in the US. Take where I am from, the highest paying factory in town only pays about $7.50 a hour. Unemloyment is through the roof. Wouldn't a lower paid America worker make more sense than such poor quality that comes from China? Our government needs to wise up and help companies that are willing to do this.

Yeah, but the China factory worker wages might be equivalent to $1 U.S. or less. In India, the wages there are even lower. How can you compete with that?

In Walmart, you can buy a brand new GE microwave oven for $49. It weighs probably 50 pounds and is imported from China. Take off Walmarts profit, the packaging, the shipping from China, etc. and what's left??? You can't buy the parts here to assemble it for what's left over much less the labor needed to build the darn thing.

 

[Killer_B]

I find it puzzling that so may people have a hard time with outsourcing to china, but few mention the outsourcing Deere has done to India.

India is not communist.

 

[Tritonman]

I read an interesting article today, that John Deere had the Indians develop the stripped down models like the 5203 for there market in india, at a price point of 8500-12500. Deere wasn't even focused on this market in the US till Mahindra hit the sweet spot for the hobby farmers.

 

[dixie306]

some things are the same all over, I crawled under my GMC the other day my muffler is from canada and the gas tank from mexico, so much for all American

 

[flyngti]

Well, times may be changing:

Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers - New York Times

It's starting to cost more and more to have goods produced offshore. Maybe in our lifetimes, we'll see manufacturing start to move back into the US. Right now, "Made in USA" barely exists anymore.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

Lower prices? You already get that. The price the tractor sells for represents the best that Deere thinks they can do on that model. They know they have competition. I will bet you that the Dealer makes a lot more on each tractor sold than Deere does.

What you pay has little to do with competition or the lowest price they can sell it for. Its mostly about consumer perception and the higest amount they think people will pay for their product, while still keeping their manufacturing facilities operating at full speed.

 

[bandit67]

Shareholders oh so happy.,')

OK, now that's funny!

 

[joes_427_vette]

Just read an article in a car magazine about Dodge is planning a new compact car and giving it a former name of Demon. They went on to state China may supply the platform. ( can we at least mount the shocks and wheels ? ) That probably means China will subcontract it to Vietnam. It is truely a world market.

 

[DreaminGreen]

Just as an FYI China is investing heavily in Africa. hooray (with lifeless voice).