Update:
I got it and then took it back.
I went by the dealership and picked it up on Aug 2nd after they got the back tires replaced. I brought it home and after I got done chasing down and putting an errant horse in a neighbors fence, I started to take it off the trailer. That is when I noticed 3 rather large skint up places on the deck where the paint had been knocked off and it was rusting along with numerous rust spots on brake and the deck lift pedals. So I commenced to cleaning them off and I went back inside and got on the computer to check to see if there was a way to just order some John Deere touch up paint for the deck. Not for looks, just to keep it from rusting.
While I was on my local dealer's web page, I noticed they started doing $500 off starting on Aug 1st....:irked:
I didn't even get my mower until after the 1st because they didn't have the tires they thought they did and had to wait for them to be ordered. Had I purchased it on July 1st and they changed their incentives, I wouldn't have had a problem with it, but the fact that I bought it on July 31st and they didn't even give me the tractor until Aug 2nd after they increased their incentives by $200 and didn't even bother to tell me about it kind of ticked me off. On top of the fact that my "brand new" $6,000 high quality John Deere mower had significantly more rust on it than my 3 year old piece of crap $2,000 Lowe's Husqvarna tractor with 100 hours on it.
So I didn't even take it off the trailer, I was in the parking lot of my dealer when they opened on Aug 3. I told them the situation and that I was not satisfied at all and they I hadn't even taken the mower off the trailer and I wanted to return it.
First he started in about how he had given me a great deal on that tractor being that I was a local buyer and had discounted it from MSRP. I responded that I intentionally bought it local versus buying online from Mutton Power and paying significantly less than MSRP with free shipping and no sales tax because I wanted to keep the business local and develop a good relationship with them as the local dealer. However, if they weren't interested in that, I would very happily order from an online dealer and save myself even more money.
My salesman said that he would take it back under the John Deere Promise and there was one that had been delivered to another store on 7/23 and he would have them make sure that it had no rust on it and if it had rust on it I could have the X500 that he had ordered to replace the one I had bought that was going to be delivered on 8/19 right out of the crate. I also asked him about the $200 refund and he said that he wasn't aware that they were going to increase the incentive on August 1st and that he was dealing with me in good faith. I said that if I had purchased the tractor even 2 weeks before, I wouldn't have a problem but the fact that I had purchased it and hadn't even gotten to use it and they changed the incentive, I didn't think was fair. I stated I could also just give him this tractor back and buy it from somewhere else or even his same store and get the $500 incentive if that was a problem.
He said he would give me a $200 refund.
So hopefully, I will be actually getting a X500 in the next couple of weeks.
Do you guys think I was being too anally retentive?