Re: Kubota pricing link doesn\'t works at Aldermans.com
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Generally, yes, but in certain rare instances that isn't true; instances of being overstocked, a used unit that was given too much value when it was traded in, sales just to draw in customers, etc. so occasionally something is sold at cost or even below cost.)</font>
Then that is the dealers fault and should not be placed on the backs of the customers.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ( when I can travel in a 100 miles radius of my home and get a price difference of over $1,500, something is wrong )
And what would be wrong? Don't you have the same situation with cars, pickups, etc.? And percentage wise, lots of other products, even groceries have an even greater disparity.)</font>
There is nothing wrong but again, don’t rip me off either. Cars at least where I shop are almost the same no matter what. Same with the grill I bought, the TV's I baught, r/c heli I bought & the list can go one and one.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ( Also last I knew Kubota dealers have a “window” to sell the units without paying for them. So if you get 20 and sell 20, you did not even pay for them. No overhead here. )
I assume you mean the dealer doesn't have to pay for them until after he sells them. Kubota certainly isn't giving them to him free. And no overhead? The water, electric, telephone bills, perhaps rent, property taxes, employees' salaries and benefits - the overhead is still there whether or not he sells anything. )</font>
Correct, the dealer has xxx amount of days to sell or then will have to buy them. Water is again, waste of time to added up, phone not much, taxes is a high or higher one, salaries blab blah. Unless the guys in the shop make $78K a year, have benefits with matching 401, no co-pay benefits and wonderful meds, it does not justify the huge delta in price. I can shop with 20 minutes in my state of 15 minute in CT and the prices are huge. Again, it comes down to the mighty dollar and they feed on people that are not doing there homework or scare them with "if you do not buy it here deal".
Also all the little things you stated are really a wash. Even my own taxes, water, electric etc are a drop in the bucket in the big picture.
Yes the dealer still has overhead and based on my wifes job, several of my friends, my parents and inlaws businesses, the mark ups are pretty good to put bread on the table. They are not starving here.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ( they charged there people fright fees when Agway shipped the units with there own trucks (free shipping)! )
Free shipping? Who paid to buy those trucks, hire drivers, buy fuel, oil, insurance, and pay for maintenance? )</font>
Yes, some items are shipped free. It is a wash I have seen the endless invoices from the work my wife does at home. 30 tractors, 500 pallets of this and that….The stores charge/add you for freight fees when it cost them ZERO to get from point A to there store. ! Maybe this is why Corporate Agaway went Chap 11…..
They make money in all kinds of ways;
