Had checkbook in hand but No sale

[JethroB]

Does collusion or antitrust come into play if the dealerships have the same owner? I wouldn’t think so. Here a couple of families own several Kubota and Deere dealerships in the area.

 

[beenthere]

I went to my Jd dealer today to buy a tractor. Unfortunately the sales guy I got the quote from wasn’t there. Different sales guy meets me I tell him I’m looking at a1025r. He says I’m working up a quote right now for someone else. He says tractor loader mower for 18,500. I’m thinking ( to myself) cool $200 less than first quote. I asked him to answer a couple of question I had , he did so but I started getting the vibe I was annoying him. So I said let’s go inside and do it up. He sits down starts on paperwork. Meantime the guy he shares an office with is calling someone in management. I hear his side of the conversation only but basically he’s making sure not to undercut a sister dealer and making them aware of what he priced a tractor to customer. My sales guy finishes up and writes $19000 on a post it note and slides it over to me. I ask him what’s this he says that’s your quote plus tax. I in formed him I already had a quote from here and reminded him he said 18,500 in parking lot. He claims the 18, 500 was for a 54 inch deck. Anyway it turned me sour so I’m off to look more.

Be honest up front with them, and not sneak into asking another salesman to give you a number.. each likely have their own quota's to meet and their commission comes only from sales.
Put yourself in their shoes.. and think how it might feel to have a customer trying to trick you...

 

[tbk5]

Back in the 90s many Mississippi residents were crossing into Tennessee to buy ATVs to save money on taxes. MS dealers complained to the state and MS auditors checked the TN dealers books. Lots of folks got bills for the unpaid taxes plus penalties.

Interesting. I wonder under what authority MS auditors could check TN books? There was a similar situation between MA and NH. There is no sales tax in NH so many people from MA drive to NH to shop. MA DOR wanted to audit Town Fair Tire books in NH. In the end, courts told MA to take a hike.

 

[fried1765]

Interesting. I wonder under what authority MS auditors could check TN books? There was a similar situation between MA and NH. There is no sales tax in NH so many people from MA drive to NH to shop. MA DOR wanted to audit Town Fair Tire books in NH. In the end, courts told MA to take a hike.

Interesting. I wonder under what authority MS auditors could check TN books? There was a similar situation between MA and NH. There is no sales tax in NH so many people from MA drive to NH to shop. MA DOR wanted to audit Town Fair Tire books in NH. In the end, courts told MA to take a hike.

People from ME, MA, RI, and VT spend major dollars in NH every day!

 

[Username Taken]

Interesting. I wonder under what authority MS auditors could check TN books? There was a similar situation between MA and NH. There is no sales tax in NH so many people from MA drive to NH to shop. MA DOR wanted to audit Town Fair Tire books in NH. In the end, courts told MA to take a hike.

The Courts actually stood up to the Deep State? Amazing.

We have no Income Tax in Florida, our property taxes are reasonable. So people are moving here by the boat-load. Which annoys me to no end. I'd move if I could.

Our infrastructure is over-loaded. Our roads are good but super-crowded, our schools (some of them have to put big Mobile Home-like structures up as classrooms), our hospitals and Doctors, our Super Markets and Restaurants. And we don't always get the cream of the crop, person-wise. We get a lot, REALLY a lot, of losers, criminals, druggies, homeless and other low-lifes escaping the North. So that taxes our Law Enforcement Agencies, too.

And it's only going to get worse.

All that said, with the multi-billion dollar hurricanes we get every few years that FEMA barely helps with, we're still the most fiscally sound State in the Union. Look it up.

All that with the lowest (or some of the lowest) taxes in the Country.

Why is that? Why is it that so many States tax their people half to death and are still broke every year? And have the worst roads, the worst infrastructure, the worst -- Everything. Where's all that money going? Some of the highest-paid people on Earth live and pay taxes in those States and they STAY broke.

If it takes you more than 5 seconds to figure it out, you're hopelessly retarded.

 

[GoatHerd]

Try a Kioti ! South Koreans are clever, solid manufacturers, and the price is right. I've owned four and haven't been sorry yet.

 

[cperky]

Be honest up front with them, and not sneak into asking another salesman to give you a number.. each likely have their own quota's to meet and their commission comes only from sales.
Put yourself in their shoes.. and think how it might feel to have a customer trying to trick you...

I hear what you mean and agree with you. In this instance I asked for the salesman that gave me the original quote up front and made the receptionist aware that I had spoken with him a few times already. He was out for a few days she said and then she walked to get a sales guy for me. I didn’t ask the new guy for a price. I simply said I was looking at 1025 R. He offered the price without me asking stating he was already working on a quote for someone else. I really expected the receptionist to share information with new sales guy as I shared with her.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

The Courts actually stood up to the Deep State? Amazing.

We have no Income Tax in Florida, our property taxes are reasonable. So people are moving here by the boat-load. Which annoys me to no end. I'd move if I could.

Our infrastructure is over-loaded. Our roads are good but super-crowded, our schools (some of them have to put big Mobile Home-like structures up as classrooms), our hospitals and Doctors, our Super Markets and Restaurants. And we don't always get the cream of the crop, person-wise. We get a lot, REALLY a lot, of losers, criminals, druggies, homeless and other low-lifes escaping the North. So that taxes our Law Enforcement Agencies, too.

And it's only going to get worse.

All that said, with the multi-billion dollar hurricanes we get every few years that FEMA barely helps with, we're still the most fiscally sound State in the Union. Look it up.

All that with the lowest (or some of the lowest) taxes in the Country.

Why is that? Why is it that so many States tax their people half to death and are still broke every year? And have the worst roads, the worst infrastructure, the worst -- Everything. Where's all that money going? Some of the highest-paid people on Earth live and pay taxes in those States and they STAY broke.

If it takes you more than 5 seconds to figure it out, you're hopelessly retarded.

I spent 5 months in FLA last year on a construction project; I was more than thrilled to leave. Ya'll can have that state. I'll pay higher taxes any day.

 

[MoKelly]

We spend time in Florida - Oct-March.

Great state.

Great people.

Very busy all the time. Action orientated!

MoKelly

 

[fried1765]

The Courts actually stood up to the Deep State? Amazing.

We have no Income Tax in Florida, our property taxes are reasonable. So people are moving here by the boat-load. Which annoys me to no end. I'd move if I could.

Our infrastructure is over-loaded. Our roads are good but super-crowded, our schools (some of them have to put big Mobile Home-like structures up as classrooms), our hospitals and Doctors, our Super Markets and Restaurants. And we don't always get the cream of the crop, person-wise. We get a lot, REALLY a lot, of losers, criminals, druggies, homeless and other low-lifes escaping the North. So that taxes our Law Enforcement Agencies, too.

And it's only going to get worse.

All that said, with the multi-billion dollar hurricanes we get every few years that FEMA barely helps with, we're still the most fiscally sound State in the Union. Look it up.

All that with the lowest (or some of the lowest) taxes in the Country.

Why is that? Why is it that so many States tax their people half to death and are still broke every year? And have the worst roads, the worst infrastructure, the worst -- Everything. Where's all that money going? Some of the highest-paid people on Earth live and pay taxes in those States and they STAY broke.

If it takes you more than 5 seconds to figure it out, you're hopelessly retarded.

We can thank our Florida governors for doing a great job!

 

[Username Taken]

We spend time in Florida - Oct-March.

Great state.

Great people.

Very busy all the time. Action orientated!

MoKelly

I'm a certified diver, I fished, swam, went to the Beach in my boat when I wasn't fishing (Florida, north of the Keys isn't that great for diving), spear-fished (you gotta 'peg' em or they'll take for a ride. And watch out for sharks), I've gator-hunted, hunted-hunted (i don't kill things for fun but I looked the part. I'l bust a hog. They're good eating [I will kill for food but not for fun])....... The boar's don't taste good unless you go through a whole proces of leaving them on ice (skinned out) until it melts, replace, repeat. Not worth it IMO. Sometimes you can get a 'bar' Hog. They're pretty good.

Things I can't remember or won't admit to Hate Golf. Hate, hate hate it hate it hate hate it.

Too old for that activity now and even if I weren't, you can't near the boat ramps or the beaches and all the property is being built up with more condos for the northern cellulite crowd. You need a gallon of eye-bleach to go near the beaches anymore. If the beached whales don't blind you with their white skin, they'll kill your eyesight with extreme wrinkled ugliness.

In May, they start to leave. Happy Days!! And you can go to the Beaches. The most beautiful women in the world live in Florida. Not even close.

They don't sit around and get fat all winter and a lot of activities down here include water and bathing suits, even in 'winter'. For those, and several other reasons, Florida girls stay in shape much better.

Been over 43 years and to be blunt, I'm over it. Especially the crowds. Mostly the crowds and the fat people. Partly the summers. It isn't that Hurricanes scare me. They don't. I sat outside in the garage with a Jack and Coke and watched Charley go through here like a locomotive.

Give it a few minutes --

What I hate, and what I fear, is when we lose power for 10 days. People, let me tell you..... When it's 95 degrees and 97% humidity, it sucks being without A/C, refrigerators, Ice. the ability to cook, to take a warm shower.... It sucks.

Sorry for the rant.

 

[Tulip]

Yea , go on telling yourself that, Getting sick of 5030 also.

Hopefully, 5030 has no intention of turning this useful forum into Facebook. I left Facebook for that reason . . . more 5030s, and this forum will be unreadable too.

 

[coobie]

Hopefully, 5030 has no intention of turning this useful forum into Facebook. I left Facebook for that reason . . . more 5030s, and this forum will be unreadable too.

VERY TRUE.To good to be true just ask him.To bad the mods don't delete some of his degrading posts like they do to others on this site.Maybe when you hit the 10,000 post limit you are golden..

 

[Steppenwolfe]

We spend time in Florida - Oct-March.

Great state.

Great people.

Very busy all the time. Action orientated!

MoKelly

I feel the same way about the Blue Ridge Mountains... Glad you enjoy FLA !!!

 

[Username Taken]

I feel the same way about the Blue Ridge Mountains... Glad you enjoy FLA !!!

Right now, I'd take the Blue Ridge Mountains in a hot second. But that's mostly because I've been here 44 years and done everything I want to do. But I love the idea of Blue Ridge Mountains. Spent a week in Blue Ridge Georgia. Beautiful place. Absolutley gorgeous.

To get an idea of what Florida used to be like, watch the Movie 'Porkys'

It is an absolute roller. I mean a knee-slapping, belly-busting good time movie.

WARNING! It is definitely an MA rated film. Mostly for language not for overt ****** acts as much as teen-age language and some visuals.

If you don't hurt yourself laughing, something is wrong with you.

 

[JethroB]

Interesting. I wonder under what authority MS auditors could check TN books? There was a similar situation between MA and NH. There is no sales tax in NH so many people from MA drive to NH to shop. MA DOR wanted to audit Town Fair Tire books in NH. In the end, courts told MA to take a hike.

Many states have reciprocal agreements concerning sales taxes. They will sometimes tip each other off on offenders.

 

[tractordog]

When the state of Massachusetts (taxachusetts) stated that the wanted all those new hampshire tire stores to pay the taxes from Mass register cars to Mass. The NH Governor said fine but mass need to refund all the taxes that new hampshire residence have paid, (no sales tax in NH). It got quite after that.

I hear many years ago that Mass state troopers were told to leave or be arrested when they were staking out the new hampshire liquor stores. (imagine all the state taxes bars can avoid buying in a tax free state).

 

[5030]

Hopefully, 5030 has no intention of turning this useful forum into Facebook. I left Facebook for that reason . . . more 5030s, and this forum will be unreadable too.

Two words for the uninitiated.... kiss off