Looking at buying a TYM t454

AxleHub · Dec 14, 2015

TSO said:
Similar to NH, Bobcat, Mahindra, etc... Cabela's is adding in the cost of their name and brand image. They may feel that buying a Cabela's tractor should fetch them a premium because of that.

Buy low, sell high... That's pretty much business 101. If they can get away with it, and if people want an overpriced green TYM, then apparently Cabela's knows how to do business.

If someone wanted a TYM badly enough and didn't have a dealer... But instead had a Cabela's dealer, then I guess that gives them an avenue to get the TYM.

TSO . . you're a smart poster . . but in this instance you're not grasping the difference. Again in this last post you used tractor dealer examples vs. Cabelas who is a retailer.

A retailer operates differently than a tractor dealer. Their very existence depends on repeat business on a regular basis and to many people. Any tractor dealer bases their operation on an irregular and smaller quantity buyer and service repair. Its suicide to open a new market that will get lots of comparison to start with . . and then be far too pricey besides. Suicide because it kills the new market potential AND ALSO changes many customer's perception of the whole retail operation too.

Btown · Dec 14, 2015

sparker133 said:
Those prices are for the basic tractors. I got a price for the bigger loader, extra rear remote, 3rd function, and filled tires. I got a price from the TYM dealer with the same options on the t554. I also forgot that cabelas has a $1000 gift card with the purchase of a tractor. So a $6700 difference between the two. Maybe I am missing something but i am just going off the prices I was given by the dealerships.

Since when did TYM start offering larger loaders. So you got three rear remotes. Since it comes standard with two sets. Cabela's is selling it go $35,999 with a $1,000 gift card. So the price is a little higher than what you were quoted. But my TYM dealer was $36,500 for the T554. So in my case Cabela's is $1,500 cheaper.

TSO · Dec 14, 2015

AxleHub said:
TSO . . you're a smart poster . . but in this instance you're not grasping the difference. Again in this last post you used tractor dealer examples vs. Cabelas who is a retailer.

A retailer operates differently than a tractor dealer. Their very existence depends on repeat business on a regular basis and to many people. Any tractor dealer bases their operation on an irregular and smaller quantity buyer and service repair. Its suicide to open a new market that will get lots of comparison to start with . . and then be far too pricey besides. Suicide because it kills the new market potential AND ALSO changes many customer's perception of the whole retail operation too.

No, Cabela's would be a retailer IF they were selling red TYM branded tractors. At that point, it would behoove them to offer a cheaper price to make the sales. However, they are now, in your words, a "tractor dealer" since they are selling their own "brand" of tractor. They are banking on their name recognition and a hopeful market saturation by proxy (their "land management" moniker), to sell their own brand of machine. They are presenting these machines as their own brand. If they were simply a "retailer" then that would mean you could buy a Cabela's branded tractor also from, say, Bass Pro.