Empty Lot / Full Lot

[jezreel]

I bought my MX5400 last December. I’ve been waiting for A quick hitch for 10 months. I check in with my salesman via text ever other month. Each time he says they have not been able to get one. Last month I got a bit more wordy, as I just couldn’t believe that in 9 months they couldn’t get a QH. He replied that they didn’t even have any tractors on their lot. I’m thinking, Yeah Right. I drove to Memphis last weekend and passed some Kubota lots chock full of tractors. Others with slim pickins. Same with the green lots. Well, I drove into town 2 days ago and thought I’d stop by to have a face to face. WOW! ! ! Wowwwwwww! ! ! They had absolutely ZERO tractors on their lot. And very few implements. My salesman was at lunch, but I ended up having a good conversation with one of the guys there. I told him about the numerous Kubota lots with lots of tractors. He said he gets photos from customers all the time with of those full lots.

That is CRAZY. How does this happen. My dealer’s lot with NO tractors, and others busting at the seams with tractors. Anyway, I just thought I’d throw that out there. This world has plum gone crazy.

 

[Torvy]

Dealerships often get allotments and/or priority based on past sales volume. Sometimes it is a matter of which dealers were proactive and ordered before things went crazy. Of course, if your dealer is awesome, maybe he just sold his allotment and the other guys didn't. Though, I find that unlikely.

 

[BoylermanCT]

My LS dealer has not had any tractors for months. Then last week he got 8 in. Very tempting to see about doing a trade in!

 

[finn1]

Our Kioti dealer is that. Inventory seems to drop to a few tractors, mostly smaller . Two weeks there are 18 or 20 on the lot or on skids awaiting assembly, mostly CK or DK or NX.

Another week or so and they’re down to a few.

Business must be good.

 

[BCinVA]

I've seen the same thing while shopping. It seems to me the big mega-dealers seem to get preference. When I was looking a JD a couple of the huge outfits had some stock, but the smaller local guys not so much. Same way with Massey. The big upper midwest dealers had stock, but nothing around here (southwest Virginia), much.

 

[ultrarunner]

In August I was surprised to see inventory in Washington State when nothing in my part of California...

 

[IndyJay]

Dealerships often get allotments and/or priority based on past sales volume. Sometimes it is a matter of which dealers were proactive and ordered before things went crazy. Of course, if your dealer is awesome, maybe he just sold his allotment and the other guys didn't. Though, I find that unlikely.

The dealer where I bought my Kioti is like that. They were an early adopter of Kioti after having a falling out with Kubota. They have a very successful sales history AND they were prescient enough to have ordered a boatload of extra tractors before thing got completely crazy.

My local Kioti dealer didn't have anything to demo and couldn't give a definite delivery date. They are back to selling lawn mowers and side-by-sides. The place where I wound up buying was over an hour away but had several models to test drive and your pick of models in crates waiting for assembly.

 

[sea2summit]

Dealerships often get allotments and/or priority based on past sales volume.

This is exactly what my dealer told me. He said Kubota is also prioritizing based on instock non-contracted equipment so if someone has a L3901 on order from a low priority dealer and a high priority dealer has one on the lot but under contract they'll get the L3901 first even though they still have one "sitting" on the lot. My dealer said in his opinion Kubota was doing it as fairly as possible to meet the demand of the customer but he wasn't super happy because they were using historical sales data and while he had a good stock of some things but couldn't get other things because in the past he didn't have a big market for it but now he does.

 

[sea2summit]

My LS dealer has not had any tractors for months. Then last week he got 8 in. Very tempting to see about doing a trade in!

I bet they're all already sold.

 

[sea2summit]

In August I was surprised to see inventory in Washington State when nothing in my part of California...

It's all about demand, I bet historically WA sells a ton more tractors than CA does.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

It's all about demand, I bet historically WA sells a ton more tractors than CA does.

My thoughts exactly but then California does have a lot of orchards and vineyards

 

[finn1]

My thoughts exactly but then California does have a lot of orchards and vineyards

There are twice as many farms in California than in Washington. 78000 vs 39000.


From that, one could surmise with some confidence that there are twice as many tractors in California.

 

[Ricn]

I live in Wa State and can tell you there are very, very few tractors here, even used ones have dried up.

 

[ultrarunner]

My information is dated as it was first week of August I was in Thurston County…

 

[SARG]

Just an observation from upstate NY ........ I went by a New Holland dealer this afternoon and there was two tractors out front.
A couple weeks ago I went by and there were two rows of machines ... perhaps 30 to 40.
No idea if they were on consignment and got pulled back or if they were sold .... although that amount of sales doesn't seem possible. Something is going on.

 

[Solitary Man]

My LS dealer has not had any tractors for months. Then last week he got 8 in. Very tempting to see about doing a trade in!

Fahgettaboutit... Those 8 are already sold!

 

[Jchonline]

I bought my MX5400 last December. I’ve been waiting for A quick hitch for 10 months. I check in with my salesman via text ever other month. Each time he says they have not been able to get one. Last month I got a bit more wordy, as I just couldn’t believe that in 9 months they couldn’t get a QH. He replied that they didn’t even have any tractors on their lot. I’m thinking, Yeah Right. I drove to Memphis last weekend and passed some Kubota lots chock full of tractors. Others with slim pickins. Same with the green lots. Well, I drove into town 2 days ago and thought I’d stop by to have a face to face. WOW! ! ! Wowwwwwww! ! ! They had absolutely ZERO tractors on their lot. And very few implements. My salesman was at lunch, but I ended up having a good conversation with one of the guys there. I told him about the numerous Kubota lots with lots of tractors. He said he gets photos from customers all the time with of those full lots.

That is CRAZY. How does this happen. My dealer’s lot with NO tractors, and others busting at the seams with tractors. Anyway, I just thought I’d throw that out there. This world has plum gone crazy.

Just go by one of the full lots and see if they have a QH.

My dealer is pretty low on inventory, but sales are up...so everything off the truck is already sold.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Kubota dealership in Chattanooga is FULL of inventory.

 

[mo1]

The dealers in my region:

- Deere: all dealers in this region are part of a big four-state 30-some-odd dealership company. They have a reasonable amount of stock of 1E/1R, 3E, 5E, and 6M tractors, most implements, and a few 3Rs, 4Ms, and 6Es. There is little row cropping done here so nothing over about 150 HP has ever regularly been in stock. They have a small number of used tractors that disappear quickly as they mainly deal with things made in the last 30-40 years in decent repair that will sell quickly.

- New Holland/Kioti/Massey-Ferguson: Smaller 4 location dealer. All out of Kiotis for many months. They have maybe two Massey-Fergusons at one location only but that is typical for them. They have a few 30-35 HP New Holland compacts and a couple 90-120 HP units but largely it's a ghost town for new tractors.

- New Holland/Kioti: A different two location dealer, all out of anything new and has been for a while.

- CaseIH/Kubota: Large couple-dozen location dealer chain, they have between 2 and 5 75-140 HP CaseIH tractors that seem to last no more than a week or two. They have pretty much Kubota's entire line in stock below 75 HP.

- Kubota: Small two-location dealer, they have pretty much anything smaller than an M60 in stock and they sometimes have an M6060 or M7060 here and there. They basically don't do any used sales at all.

- LS/Zetor: Single-location dealer, they have a large number of LS compacts. There used to be red tractors there but not recently.

 

[ZetorSteve]

The dealers in my region:

- Deere: all dealers in this region are part of a big four-state 30-some-odd dealership company. They have a reasonable amount of stock of 1E/1R, 3E, 5E, and 6M tractors, most implements, and a few 3Rs, 4Ms, and 6Es. There is little row cropping done here so nothing over about 150 HP has ever regularly been in stock. They have a small number of used tractors that disappear quickly as they mainly deal with things made in the last 30-40 years in decent repair that will sell quickly.

- New Holland/Kioti/Massey-Ferguson: Smaller 4 location dealer. All out of Kiotis for many months. They have maybe two Massey-Fergusons at one location only but that is typical for them. They have a few 30-35 HP New Holland compacts and a couple 90-120 HP units but largely it's a ghost town for new tractors.

- New Holland/Kioti: A different two location dealer, all out of anything new and has been for a while.

- CaseIH/Kubota: Large couple-dozen location dealer chain, they have between 2 and 5 75-140 HP CaseIH tractors that seem to last no more than a week or two. They have pretty much Kubota's entire line in stock below 75 HP.

- Kubota: Small two-location dealer, they have pretty much anything smaller than an M60 in stock and they sometimes have an M6060 or M7060 here and there. They basically don't do any used sales at all.

- LS/Zetor: Single-location dealer, they have a large number of LS compacts. There used to be red tractors there but not recently.

What LS/Zetor dealer is it? WCT?