Kubota Should Just Do The Right Thing

[bp fick]

All I can do is shake my head when I read something like this. So whenever a company makes an improvement in a product, they should update all existing products with that improvement without additional, or a nominal charge.

I am curious, how much would have the price of each product have to increase to build this concept into a product cost structure.

Perhaps reading the entire thread would assure your rolling eyes that the OP never postulated the position you suggest. Indeed, the part has a number, and the price is established at $35. If someone suggested that this part be offered for free, a thought that is quite naive, imho, it was not the OP.

 

[smfcpacfp]

I didn't read the whole post, I read your post and you implied, based upon the seat replacement, that it should be made available at little cost. If people want to make the improvement, if it is indeed necessary, they certainly have the right to pay full freight to do so.

 

[bp fick]

I didn't read the whole post, I read your post and you implied, based upon the seat replacement, that it should be made available at little cost. If people want to make the improvement, if it is indeed necessary, they certainly have the right to pay full freight to do so.

Thank you, sir, for your integrity. If you had read through the thread, you would have noticed that the price is already fixed by Kubota at $35. plus S&H. That is indeed a fair and modest price.

Asking that it be made available for free or for next to nothing is only the dream of the naive and foolish or the stuff of straw men arguments*. There have been very, very few such folks on this thread or on the older thread. The hope has been to keep this conversation focused on the real issue of availability and particularly information regarding its availability, and to do so in civil manner.

 

[bp fick]

I didn't read the whole post, I read your post and you implied, based upon the seat replacement, that it should be made available at little cost. If people want to make the improvement, if it is indeed necessary, they certainly have the right to pay full freight to do so.

I apologize to you and all for the lack of clarity in my original post as to the relationship to the seat issue. I only mentioned the seat issue because I meant it as a compliment to Kubota. (I am a big fan) I did not mean that the two issues were related, similar, or needed to be dealt with in the same way.

Again, I apologize for my sloppy post and any confusion that may have caused to you or to others.
Best Wishes,

 

[smfcpacfp]

I apologize to you and all for the lack of clarity in my original post as to the relationship to the seat issue. I only mentioned the seat issue because I meant it as a compliment to Kubota. (I am a big fan) I did not mean that the two issues were related, similar, or needed to be dealt with in the same way.

Again, I apologize for my sloppy post and any confusion that may have caused to you or to others.
Best Wishes,

Then you and I are in agreement. I used to own a car dealership (Honda, Nissan, Isuzu) and some customers had some strange ideas about how things shoud work in their world.

 

[radioman]

The manufacturer of my car put a LOT nicer navigation system in the next model year. I wish it had been in mine but I sure don't expect them to swap it for me. If the item isn't enough of a safety issue to be recall-worthy, why would the manufacturer be expected to go back and reduce a prior year's profits and future year's sales by providing free "upgrades" to older models?

Errr- this is not what I meant- The fan is a dinky little plastic that seems very critical if broken. GPS is a extra feature. The HST fan protection guard shouldn't be considered as extra feature- but mandatory part. Look at it this way - its a safty feature actually. If I want to hook up my MMM shaft while engine is running (saftey police- please stand down, its just a point needs to be made), you can really feel the air draft moving when fingers is under the BX belly). The fan gaurd has the potential to protect a lawsuit about mutilated or lost fingers. A plus side is less down time from stick damaging the fan therefore promoting kubota is best feeling.
Just my 2 cents.