I, of course, feel I must update on this. I do not want to pursue a mud-slinging contest or a "he said, she said". I would much rather clear the air and let my experience be known. I have re-read my original post, and there is some emotion there, but feel the story is accurate...... from my perspective. There are two sides (at least) to every story. I do not think anything "illegal" was ever being done. I was just unhappy with some of the encounters.
gamble77 was kind enough to reply to me personally to explain things from the Greensouth perspective. I do not want to speak for him, but he did explain that on the first machine I looked at that I was having a hard time getting the history on was a used machine that was in Florida and sold to a customer in a GA store. That customer realized he wanted a larger tractor and quickly upgraded after purchasing with a loader and using for a month or so. The apparent confusion in locating it in the system was a paperwork issue and getting paperwork "final" and then into the system. (The first owner was a "rental", the second was a private individual. That could, I imagine, create some paperwork headaches). In response to my tractor, apparently the individual I purchased it from had already traded it on a new machine, but was able to still sell privately if he could, and he did. Greensouth had their listing, as they thought it was theirs and there was the paperwork delay before it was realized that it was no longer theirs, as the original owner had opted out of the trade and repurchased it to sell to me. So, it was apparently at some point over the past couple weeks Greensouth's machine to advertise and try to sell. I will add that is considerate of Greensouth to allow the person trading to "buy back" his trade to sell privately if he gets a buyer. Recall the prior post about is a PO legally binding. So, Greensouth was legitimately listing the tractor, just delays in getting listings updated. I would not want the job of tracking 15-20 dealers used inventory and keeping it "real time" up to date, but then again with modern technology we expect things to be instantaneous. I will also add that throughout the course of my shopping I called gamble77 several times and he was helpful and straight forward each conversation.
I am editing this 45 min after originally posted. Do not want to drag things out, and 45 minutes of shut eye can help, too.
The reasons I was unhappy with the experience are in original post.
But, I got my tractor that I am happy with, the other individual got his new deere, and greensouth sold a new deere. So we all win, maybe some sore feelings in there, but we all win.
I hope this clarifies some things. I do not mean to offend, but do mean to report my experience, and have tried to with as little bias as I can.
