Buying Advice IS IT JUST ME OR.......

[ricky wyatt]

IS IT JUST ME OR HAS THE USED TRACTOR MARKET GONE CRAZY? I JUST SOLD MY KIOTI CK 30 AND AT THE TIME I THOUGHT HECK IT WOULD NOT BE A BIG DEAL TO UPGRADE TO A HYDRO AND MORE HP BUT BOY WAS I WRONG. I STARTED LOOKING AT THE J.D. AND KUBOTA (SINCE THE KIOTI WON'T GIVE YOU THE LOADER UNLESS YOU PAY CASH AND NOT FINANCE) BUT THATS ANOTHER STORY WHY IS IT EVERYWHERE I LOOK ONE WITH 5-6- 0R 8 HUNDRED HOURS THEY WANT AS MUCH AS A NEW ONE .... DID I MISS THE MEMO? I TRIED TO BUY A 2008 JD WITH 12 HRS ON IT AND FOR WHAT HE WANTED I COULD BY A 2012 MODEL SO I SHOT HIM WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A GOOD PRICE AND HE GOT MAD I SAID IT WAS A 08 MODEL NO MATTER HOW MANY HOURS IT HAD BUT HE WOULD NOT SEE IT MY WAY LOOKS LIKE I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ROLL SOME PENNIES AND BUY NEW............

 

[kleetus]

holy caps batman.. robin wants a comma or 2 as well.

 

[Bigfoot62]

:welcome: to the forum.

Yep, Kleetus is right. All caps is shouting on the net.

But, no, it's not just you. The used market is crazy, especially late models. That's why my last two tractors have been new. (and 0% financing helped my decision as well)

 

[ricky wyatt]

sorry i'm a tractor lover not i writer:laughing:

 

[Bigfoot62]

sorry i'm a tractor lover not i writer:laughing:

Hey, it's OK to use a cap every now and then!

 

[Carl_NH]

holy caps batman.. robin wants a comma or 2 as well.

And to understand the value of existing and desired machines prior to pulling the trigger to sell or buy.

 

[kenmac]

I look here Used Tractors For Sale at TractorHouse.com: John Deere Tractors, used farm tractors and farm equipment, tractors for sale, Case IH, New Holland, Agco, Kubota when checking prices

 

[RollingsFarms]

Yeah if I wanted to SELL my tractor they'd want me to give it away but if I was buying te same tractor they'd want the same price I was asking and get mad if I offered less.

 

[Martian]

I had a neighbor try and sell me his used JD 4300 for more than I could buy a new 3x20 with the same options. Needless to say I drove it up and down past his house. Some idiot did buy it though

 

[gengine]

When I sell something, I overprice it by say $500 and if we settle on what I marked it up, I'm happy. If someone wants to pay that extra $ then I'm even more happy. My grandad bought a massey 165 new for $6000 new, and I bought mine used for $4500, which was a really good price for similar tractors a few years back. The jd 4020 he bought around the same time new, is worth more now than it was then.
It seems the 40 horse and smaller tractors have a huge market right now, and they aren't really dropping in price.