No trade in value?

[MessickFarmEqu]

You can disagree with me if you want, but its possible. I don't quite get the harsh tone.

Just 3 weeks ago I took back a Kubota ZG23, customer paid $6795 for it. He put 13 hrs on it during the 13 months that he had it, his family could not get used to the ZTR and they moved to a GR2100. It sold a few days later for $6100. Thats with a year less warrenty and no financing. It sure can be done, you just have to have the right product in the right place.

 

[Kiohio]

Didn't mean it to sound harsh....
Guess we have to many bargain hunters in our area.
I have a ZTR on the lot now that the filter is rusty (paint flaked off) customer wants to know if it's used and since it's rusty I should take off $500...that is a new unused unit. I will change the filter out, but there really isn't anything wrong with it.

I'm just saying in our area if it is used or just and unsold new unit...they want alot of money off.
I may luck into selling a unit like that (out of new ones etc) but if the new unit and the used unit are there with 500 difference between them.....
No-one here will come near the used one.

KO

 

[beenthere]

Dirthauler
Do you have any idea what he meant by "very little"?

Others have made some assumptions about trading in, and the problems the dealer has with a nearly new CK20 sitting on their lot with new ones similarly priced.

I was just curious as to what you would give to trade up to the CK30, and what you might want to 'swallow' for your first 50 hours of work on the CK20.

I have a 5 (going on 6) year old Deere 4300, and I am thinking of trading up. Last year my dealer was thinking about $7000 additional to go up to a Deere 4410, which was not in my 'excitable' area (I would have for $5000 but I didn't tell him that). The dealer salesman was disappointed when I said "no, not ready, going to wait for the 3X20's" because he had my 4300 sold already. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Ledgemere Farm]

What scares me Bob, is that I actually understood what you just said... /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[frank_f15]

I am not going to go into the techinical aspects, But there are plenty of buyers that figure a slightly used tractor is ALWAYS a better buy than new.(this may not be true) but that is how they think. i think you could sell it outright for more than the dealer would give in trade.

 

[DirtHauler]

Hey, thanks for all the input. Everything that you all said makes sense. But I figuered he could sell it fairly quick considering he says he can't get any 20's for awhile, seems demand has out stripped supply in the U.S. so it will be awhile before Kioti gets more to the states or at least to the west coast. Maybe I'll just buy the 30 ( it's only a little over 16k w/fel, R4's) and the wife can run the 20! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif, we'll just share implements. Thanks again

 

[Gatorboy]

If you want to get the most resale value from a tractor, you need to buy a John Deere. Kubota, Kioti, New Holland, etc. just don't have the resale value of a John Deere -- that is just the plain and simple truth. BTW, I'm a Kubota owner.

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

I'd agree with you, but only on the lawn and garden tractors. If you look at the blue books there is no difference between Kubota, Deere, and NH. Of course... like everything that we talk about, its a regional thing and I know Deere is strong in the area you live in.

 

[Dargo]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( its a regional thing and I know Deere is strong in the area you live in.)</font>

That may be true. However, it is a sad fact that where I live, if you want to sell a Kioti or some other "non-big 3" tractor, you better try on eBay or someplace like that. Most dealers close to me won't hardly trade for a Kioti. They generally sit on the lot until their tires dry rot. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Now, before you get all huffy, if you have read any of my recent posts, I am particularly ticked at one of the big 3 and will never buy from them again after the way I've been treated. I say this so you don't twist what I say into me saying that everything but the big 3 are junk. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I call it like I see it; even if it is slamming one of the big 3 on their lack of quality or dealer support. I wouldn't make a good politician. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Bob_Skurka]

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What scares me Bob, is that I actually understood what you just said... </font>

GreenRules . . . I can relate very well to the people who ride the "short bus" to school and have learned a lot by talking s-l-o-w and LOUD.



<font color="red"> Most dealers close to me won't hardly trade for a Kioti. They generally sit on the lot until their tires dry rot. </font>

DARGO . . . I don't think anyone here would consider you a Kioti basher. But the reality is, in your area, Kioti was represented by a crummy dealer who hurt the product line's reputation and if I am correct, there is another dealer near you who is considering dropping the brand. It just never got traction in that area of Indiana and the high prices the dealers quoted, at a premium over the Big 3 brands, didn't help any either.