Re: Let\'s Help Kioti survive well
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Didn't happen to me. He was actively promoting Kioti as a high-quality Kubota/Deere/NH alternative. The dealer has several locations, one of which is a large Kubota dealership. The location I mentioned is primarily a Cub Cadet dealership in my view, though they also sell Long and Steiner. )</font>
As I said, the dealer of whom you speak may not have had any of those problems. Did you not find out anything about why they dropped the line? I would think it harder to sell when a dealership offers so many different brands, and depending on the prevailing preference of a region, a newer brand would possibly be a harder sell. However, I don't put a lot of significance in their dropping the line as there are just too many unknowns involved in this.
Who knows, maybe their sales people made more money off of other brands. As many dealers know, one can often make more money off of a ZTR mower than a tractor, or at least as much, and they go away with their mower and usually don't come back. John