John Deere trade-in Allowance on Kubota

[MHarryE]

Late to be posting but in December I received my first mailing offering up to $17,000 plus book trade-in value to trade my M135GX on a new Deere 6 series. Promotion went from about $7,000 trading for a 6D to $17,000 for an equivalent horsepower 6R dropping to only $15,000 for the highest horsepower 6M. In January they added some tweaks, and for the last 10 days of January they offered the same incentives plus a John Deere 3/4" drive socket set (sockets, ratchet, breaker bar, stated about $390 value) just to get a quote. We already have a 6 series and I am not impressed with it compared to our Kubota, but Deere won't give us anywhere close to the same kind of deal trading in any of our Deere's on a new Deere. Anyone else have this kind of experience and will their Deere dealers deal down the same way on other model trades? We have 2 Deere dealers with whom we have done business and both have been forced by Deere to sell out to larger Deere dealers. Since the change the dealers won't deal at all like in the past.

Could this be a Deere offer based on Kubota introducing the new larger tractors, an incentive to get us back in the Deere fold instead of considering one of the new larger tractors? Having Deere and New a Holland AG tractors, it was a major decision to go Kubota with the M135GX but one, after 2 seasons, leaves us with no regrets. Our oldest tractor now is the 7720 Deere and the largest of the new Kubotas appears to be the most likely replacement assuming the Kubota will be value priced compared to the Deere. I can see why now having experience with both brands Deere would want to give an incentive to keep our green tractors green but was wondering if this was just a general promotion they made to other brand owners also.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I've never owned a Deere, just over 15 Kubotas. I did price Blue, ($2500 more) and Green ($3000 more) 12 years ago when I bought my first ever tractor and a few years later with the same numbers. I get promotional material from Deere often, don't know why . Can't think I ever gave them my address.

 

[sandyc]

My local Deere dealer was luke warm about a trade for my Kubota....basically said to his low-ball offer....... take or leave it......guess that is why I traded in my 2200 for a "B" series Kubota and haven't regretted it at all. Makes me think I will stay orange for many years.

 

[Catchad81]

Late to be posting but in December I received my first mailing offering up to $17,000 plus book trade-in value to trade my M135GX on a new Deere 6 series. Promotion went from about $7,000 trading for a 6D to $17,000 for an equivalent horsepower 6R dropping to only $15,000 for the highest horsepower 6M. In January they added some tweaks, and for the last 10 days of January they offered the same incentives plus a John Deere 3/4" drive socket set (sockets, ratchet, breaker bar, stated about $390 value) just to get a quote. We already have a 6 series and I am not impressed with it compared to our Kubota, but Deere won't give us anywhere close to the same kind of deal trading in any of our Deere's on a new Deere. Anyone else have this kind of experience and will their Deere dealers deal down the same way on other model trades? We have 2 Deere dealers with whom we have done business and both have been forced by Deere to sell out to larger Deere dealers. Since the change the dealers won't deal at all like in the past.

Could this be a Deere offer based on Kubota introducing the new larger tractors, an incentive to get us back in the Deere fold instead of considering one of the new larger tractors? Having Deere and New a Holland AG tractors, it was a major decision to go Kubota with the M135GX but one, after 2 seasons, leaves us with no regrets. Our oldest tractor now is the 7720 Deere and the largest of the new Kubotas appears to be the most likely replacement assuming the Kubota will be value priced compared to the Deere. I can see why now having experience with both brands Deere would want to give an incentive to keep our green tractors green but was wondering if this was just a general promotion they made to other brand owners also.

I don't see them offering that much in reality. Maybe off of msrp price. Also, how do you arrive at a book value? To my knowledge there is no "book" other than to look at prices on the online services. When I priced trading my considerably smaller MX5100, Deere supposedly had a $1500 extra trade since it was orange. In the end, the Kubota dealer offered more from right off the bat then the Deere dealer did with the claimed extra. %s off msrp on the new purchase between Kubota and Deere where about the same.

 

[fordmantpw]

When I bought my JD 2720, Deere had an extra $1k incentive when you trade in a Kubota. I traded my BX2200 in on the Deere. My dealer sells Green and Orange, so I felt like I was getting a good comparison between the Orange B and Green 2720, and it was nice to see them side by side.

In other words, Deere does this regularly to get you into Green and out of Orange.

 

[MHarryE]

When I bought the M135GX I priced the equivalent Deere. It was about $7k higher so I bought the Kubota. A month or 2 later I got an offer from Deere stating get your quote from Deere and if you buy within a certain time frame they will throw in a free loader. Since the loader price adder was about $7k that brought it to a break even deal but the Deere dealership partner I dealt with was jerk I wouldn't have bought from him anyway. Anyway if I want to buy a used Deere I would first go to my Kubota/New Holland dealer because he is getting quite a lineup of low hour Deeres on his lot.

 

[MHarryE]

Checked through another stack of mail and found an offer to give an additional $7,000 off if we trade our 6230 Deere on a 6M series. The comparison is $7,000 plus trade-in value to trade in the Deere and $17,000 plus trade-in value to trade in the Kubota. That foes answer my question as to were they making an especially sweet offer to Kubota Grand X owners or were they making the same deal sweetener to everyone. That extra $10 grand would be enticing if it was time to trade that size. If the offer had been got our New Holland TS115A it would have been interesting although if they drove the NH for a bit the trade-in offer might suck.

 

[Marek]

Checked through another stack of mail and found an offer to give an additional $7,000 off if we trade our 6230 Deere on a 6M series. The comparison is $7,000 plus trade-in value to trade in the Deere and $17,000 plus trade-in value to trade in the Kubota. That foes answer my question as to were they making an especially sweet offer to Kubota Grand X owners or were they making the same deal sweetener to everyone. That extra $10 grand would be enticing if it was time to trade that size. If the offer had been got our New Holland TS115A it would have been interesting although if they drove the NH for a bit the trade-in offer might suck.

What ways does the Kubota shine over the deere ? We have a 6125 r on our short list. I know there are a ton of them out there used and there must be a reason.

 

[MORRISONSTEEL]

This is not an odd practice, especially in the ag world just about all of the big oem's at one point or another offer model/make/year specific programs. These are of course offered by the oem, not the dealer.

 

[MHarryE]

What ways does the Kubota shine over the deere ? We have a 6125 r on our short list. I know there are a ton of them out there used and there must be a reason.

Personal preference. I can't think of a deal breaker either way. The JD dealer lost his chance when I asked him to give me a quote on a Deere 6M when we were picking up our latest Gator. When I told him I was also looking at NH and Kubota all he could follow was cut them down, not talk about what the Deere gave me for the extra money. One thing I distinctly remember is him telling me Kubota would not run Nebraska tractor tests on their products because they would fare do poorly. When I got home I Googled M135GX Nebraska test and immediately got the report which I thought I had looked at before. Why lie? The NH is in our fleet from before I joined because the clutch failed on the Deere my cousin had in that size class and when Deere wouldn't cover any part of the $5,000 cost (it was out of warranty) he went across the road to the New Holland dealer and traded.

I do like the 8 power shift gears per range on the Kubota. The seating position and control placement suits me better than our Deeres.

Kubota seems like such an insignificant blip on Deere's radar screen in the ag scheme it just made me wonder why they seemed to be offering such a good deal. It's like Kubota doesn't even offer an ag electronic package. I am running a CNH labeled Trimble system on my Kubota, but have they seen something in the new Kubota lineup that concerns them, plus Kubota having purchased several European attachment manufacturers?