Price Check Price Help!

[Anonymous Poster]

Hello Group:
After a few questions and great support from your site, I've finally decided to buy a compact tractor after all.

Now I need some guidance on pricing.

I was offered a Kubota 3010 with loader for $16.500

and a John Deere 4300 for about the same price.

I also need a bushhog that was priced in the $1200 range.

Are these fair prices.
Is there a site with price comparison. This seems harder than buying and haggling for a car.

Please help.
Thanks

MB

 

[rancar]

4Paws,

Don't know if there's any one website you can go to for price comparisons...don't think so. All I can say is what other TBNers have told me, and this will involve some foot work on your part.

Visit as many dealers as you can. Go to TBN's main home page and click on dealers, upper right hand side of screen. Next screen, you'll be prompted to click on dealer locator. Do a dealer search in the community you're in. Find as many dealers in a 50-75 mile radius and visit as many as you can and get prices. Before you visit though, have your 'dream machine' shopping list ready that you can hand the dealer and tell them you need line item by line item cost breakdowns as your budget may force you to pick and choose among options. This way, you'll have some line item benchmarks you can use for comparison purposes.

<font color=blue>...This seems harder than buying and haggling for a car...</font color=blue>

You're right on this as well. I think it's because there are fewer dealers selling tractors than there are auto dealers. Such being the case, tractor dealers may feel they can take certain liberties in charging you a price that they think the market demands (whether true or not, I don't know). The only way to protect yourself here is to visit as many dealers as possible. If you do this, you may be surprised at finding dealer quotations will be as much as $500-800 to as much as $2K or more on the machine you're looking at. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Believe me on this. I've just been through it while shopping for a JD 4710. This is when you're in the cat bird's seat /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif and can then choose the dealer you want to buy from.

Also, don't have qualms about buying from a dealer 75 miles away. Their sale should normally include free trucking and delivery of the tractor to your home as well as free trucking charges, if service is required, during the warranty period. If they're reputable, they'll stand behind their sale. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Bob Ancar
Cambridge, NY