Tiller Homier Tillers, Mowers, Cutters, etc

[nomad]

Their prices are

48" tillers = $850
5' Finish Mower = $599 and
4' Rotary Cutter = $299!!
?

Well, if these are correct, then nobody can compete them.
These probably lighter products must just fit especially CUT owners who till/cut/mow their lands once or twice a year. No?

Ps: your comments on these Chinese products? ... BUT ... without talking bad about the products of your competitior, please.

 

[SPIKER]

nomad:

yep thos prices are about right.

they are OK quality for the home owner who has 5 acres and use them a few times each year. I have similar units to theirs and they work reasonably well. my tiller is not the chain drive that homier has mine is a center gearbox drive and it eats sod and unbroken ground really well. i have yet to break a tine and have hit some big rocks!

that 4' rotary looks a bit light for anything more than saplings less than 1" dia. but should be great for 20HP and under tractors. I keep hopping they get in some 5' or 6' ones. I need one myself!

anyhow I have a similar tractor, (JINMA 284) works like achamp.

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Villengineer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Well, if these are correct, then nobody can compete them )</font>
Once again you're confusing price and the ability to compete in the market place. Even if the product is "good enough", just because it's cheap doesn't necessarily mean that it will sell well. For instance, the company I work for has something like a 80+% market share and nearly every one of our competitors is cheaper. I'm talking $, not implying that they're products are inferior. In fact, in a few product lines we probably have some work to do. Yet we still outsell them.

When you look at these $ you have to take into account the fact that you probably aren't going to get any dealer support, parts aren't going to be available at the local TSC, it's possible that you won't be able to find parts or service at all, and for most of us you either have to buy it sight unseen or you only have a few days a year to see one in person. Personally, I'd rather buy a used attachment that is made by a company I know I can check out and source parts/service for than gamble on a new one that I'm going to spend days trying to find parts/service.

 

[Soundguy]

While the blades on the 4' rotary cutter look identical to a KK.. I wouldn't bet on any other similarities..

Soundguy

 

[nomad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Once again you're confusing price and the ability to compete in the market place. )</font>

* Price
* Quality
* Spare Part & Service Availability
* Marketing Games (or promotion activity you may name)

What else? Villengineer?
TSC or KK has all these.
Homier doesn't have?
So what? But that Chinese Wood Chipper too, I believe, doesn't have a well-distribution system - but it's being sold good. Maybe, Homier's only need is to promote their tillers, etc more actively. If there were a dealer or two of Homier tillers here, their tillers too would have been VERY popular here and here you would not be talking bad about Homier tillers easily. With their very good prices, a Homier dealer would be very active here and many threads would be opened about them.

Ps: once again, you missed the point of a topic. The key in this thread is talking about a tiller or about a competitior without talking bad.

 

[Egon]

Nomad:

From prior statements would not someone who attempts to promote their product above others be cheating the others or were you saying something else. Anyhous youse got me confusued again.

Egon

 

[Villengineer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( If there were a dealer or two of Homier tillers here, their tillers too would have been VERY popular here and here you would not be talking bad about Homier tillers easily. With their very good prices, a Homier dealer would be very active here and many threads would be opened about them. )</font>
First, I don't recall talking bad about any Homier product. Frankly, I've never personally laid eyes on any of their attachments b/c there are no local, or as far as I know regional, dealers which carry them. The only way to buy them or see them is by mail order or the Homier traveling sale. I was simply pointing out that it takes more than a low price to attract customers.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( * Price * Quality * Spare Part & Service Availability * Marketing Games Homier doesn't have? )</font>
As you stated, they obviously have price. Marketing Games they have, after all that is mainly what they do. They don't make anything, their business is buy cheap, market, sell cheap. Spare parts, maybe? I don't know. Service? Probably would depend on what you mean. If you mean nice people on the phone who can try an appease your anger, probably. If you mean anyone who a) knows anything about the product other than what a cut-sheet says or b) trained mechanics who can work on an attachment, my limited experiences with Homier would say no.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( If there were a dealer or two of Homier tillers here, their tillers too would have been VERY popular here and here you would not be talking bad about Homier tillers easily )</font> Sales do not make a product good or make it quality. Insert your own example of a junky product that sold well. There certainly are plenty.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( once again, you missed the point of a topic. The key in this thread is talking about a tiller or about a competitior without talking bad )</font>
I'm not a competitor of Homier, and again don't recall saying anything about their tiller in my first post. All I did was point out that your assumption that a low price guarantees sales is not necessarily correct.

 

[joeberry]

I usually go to a sale several times a year. I always look @ the box blade, 5 ft for 250.00 and have never brought one home. I can get them around here ( Houston) for about 75.00 dollars more. Weather that is a lot or not, I always think of customer service. The last sale I went to was the first one that the equip was in crates. Tiller, box blade, drag blade and finish mower. As usual, none came home in my truck ...... Maybe next time ......................jb

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[nomad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Nomad:
Anyhous youse got me confusued again.
Egon )</font>

Egon, these days, you are frequently confused. Get a holiday vacation. Meditarrenan coasts are created for that.

Where am I promoting some products above the others. I think Homier products are underrated here on TBN because people look at the price and when they see they are very low immediately they think these very low priced implements are low quality. Ps: having read the advices given by someones (to CCM and Sweet) in another thread not to talk bad about the products of their competitiors, I thought, in this Homier thread, people should have told their opinions without any negative on Homier items. Again, I think Homier items are very underrated. Who can claim theirs are "overrated"? Remember that "overrate & underrate" are relative terms that compares the products of competitiors.

 

[Villengineer]

Like I've stated before, I haven't personally seen any of the implements Homier sells in person. I have seen pictures and have been to their sales and have seen their other products. Based on these two things, I would guess that the Homier attachments' quality (or lack there of) would be similar to the other items they sell. My opinion is that just like many of their products the price is far more attractive than the actual product. I would guess that others who are familiar with Homier equate them with low prices and relatively low quality. I look at it like this. Why buy a new product I don't know will hold up, from a vendor I don't really respect when I can buy a good used piece of equipment for the same price. That's my opinion, nothing more.