RK Tractor reviews???

[RK Tractor Guy]

I guess the easiest way to help someone understand why what we are doing is so different, just compare RK Tractors to Mahindra USA. Both buy tractors from TYM Korea, built to each company’s specifications and their brand. Let’s presume that both company’s pay the same amount to TYM Korea for their tractors. Mahindra USA sells their tractors to independent Mahindra dealers. Mahindra dealers are the customer of Mahindra USA, so Mahindra USA adds their profit margin to their cost and that is the price that a Mahindra dealer pays for that tractor. So, the Mahindra dealer has paid the cost that TYM Korea charged Mahindra USA plus the Mahindra USA markup. The Mahindra dealer then marks up the tractor further so they too can make a profit, and it is the independent Mahindra dealer, not Mahindra USA that sells the tractor to the tractor buyer.

RK Tractors sells their tractors through their own store locations, there is no sale to a dealer. That means that our cost to get a tractor to one of our stores includes what we paid TYM Korea for it, plus transportation, but we run our own fleet, so even our transportation costs to our stores are lower that what a Mahindra dealer pays for transportation from Mahindra USA to their dealership. We are the brand and the dealer in one, and that is why our prices are so low, every day.

If that isn’t eliminating the middle man, I don’t know what is.

Yes, tractor dealers negotiate, just like in the car business. RK Tractors does not because our prices are so far below those of any other brand, everyday, we don’t have to, and no one needs to wonder if they got the best possible price. A competing dealer selling a comparably equipped tractor at our price would literally be selling it for less than he paid for it.

So, any perception or belief that our low pricing is introductory or that we cannot hold to being the lowest priced brand out there fails to take into account that we are the brand and dealer in one company.

 

[majorwager]

prof fatalist.

Clarifying your comment concerning the kioti model you purchased being equal to the RK model ..According to the screenshot below, it lists the features YOU DO NOT have on your tractor. THE RK is a PREMIUM model for these same reasons.

 

[prof fate]

Well...I DO have teh floor mat, 2 rear remotes, mirror, armrests, HST linked pedal, cruise control.
I do not have tele lower rear arms or tilt wheel.
I added a tool box for nothing (had it, two holes needed drilled in the box and I bought 2 bolts/nuts.

I paid 22451 all in - tax, 993 insurance for 6 years, whatever they charged for zero down/0% interest (from what I"m hearing at least $750, perhaps 900 for that loan). So if you remove the $1600ish insurance and financing, $1300 sales tax..I paid about 19500 for my CK3510HST, including free delivery BTW.

So that means the box, tilt wheel and tele links cost $500ish since the RK37 is $19,998.

PRemium? Perhaps...higher price? Yep.

prof fatalist.

Clarifying your comment concerning the kioti model you purchased being equal to the RK model ..According to the screenshot below, it lists the features YOU DO NOT have on your tractor. THE RK is a PREMIUM model for these same reasons.

 

[kkilli]

Stop feeding the troll and he might go away.......

 

[RK Tractor Guy]

We at RK Tractors would ask that people not debate in this manner. If you are in the market for a tractor, get quotes, compare prices and specs and decide based upon what works for you.

 

[RK Tractor Guy]

SOOOO, I drive to a RK store with my pockets stuffed over full with hundred dollar bills and a empty trailer, and I can't even get anyone at the store to take them in trade for a tractor!

Now, that would be a FIRST for me!!

SR

We would suggest that if you don’t live near one of our RK Tractors locations that you not buy one of our tractors. We are a new and growing tractor brand. We believe that anyone buying one of our tractors is entitled to prompt service support. We cannot provide that to customers that live outside of a reasonable distance from that service. In the future, we will develop an “authorized RK Tractors service center” network. We are doing quite well selling tractors to customers near our RK Tractors locations, and see not benefit to us or the tractor buyer that lives outside of the area. Hope that makes sense to you.

 

[s219]

S219,

Believe you are incorrect SIR

How would TYM sell directly to the customer? Folks would get on a plane, go to korea, choose the tractor, then make their own arrangements to import this tractor into the USA. Sounds convoluted.

I never said they would. I only said a "no middle man" business model would have to mean that a manufacturer (any manufacturer) would sell direct to the customer.

The RK guy keeps throwing around this "no middle man" phrase when in reality RK is the middle man. That is not a knock on RK, that is just pointing out the obvious that there is indeed a middle man. I can see that plain as day.

If I am going to a store to buy something then obviously the store is in the middle of the deal. Doesn't matter if it's a tractor or some other product, or who is the manufacturer and who is the seller. By definition, RK is the middle man for anything I buy at their store.

 

[s219]

I would actually view these RK tractors as more of a "house brand" product, similar to -- for example -- Craftsman tractors sold at Sears. Obviously Sears doesn't manufacture them (Husqvarna and MTD do/did) but they are built to Sears specs and styling. The tractors are then sold at Sears stores and customers buy them. Sears is the obvious middle man in that arrangement, just like RK is in theirs. Just because a house brand product has the same name as the store doesn't mean there is no middle man.

 

[aczlan]

I never said they would. I only said a "no middle man" business model would have to mean that a manufacturer (any manufacturer) would sell direct to the customer.

The RK guy keeps throwing around this "no middle man" phrase when in reality RK is the middle man. That is not a knock on RK, that is just pointing out the obvious that there is indeed a middle man. I can see that plain as day.

If I am going to a store to buy something then obviously the store is in the middle of the deal. Doesn't matter if it's a tractor or some other product, or who is the manufacturer and who is the seller. By definition, RK is the middle man for anything I buy at their store.

However, as has been explained, normally there would be a middleman and the dealer (ie: Mahindra USA and the Mahindra dealer) not one (Rural King) so they are in fact getting rid of one of the middlemen between the manufacturer and the buyer.

Aaron Z

 

[GirlWhoWantsTractor]

I would actually view these RK tractors as more of a "house brand" product, similar to -- for example -- Craftsman tractors sold at Sears. Obviously Sears doesn't manufacture them (Husqvarna and MTD do/did) but they are built to Sears specs and styling. The tractors are then sold at Sears stores and customers buy them. Sears is the obvious middle man in that arrangement, just like RK is in theirs. Just because a house brand product has the same name as the store doesn't mean there is no middle man.

One more time:

1. TYM (Manufacturer) > 2. Mahindra USA (Tractor "maker") > 3. "Joe's Tractors" (Dealer) > 4. Consumer

1. TYM (Manufacturer) > 2. RK Tractors (Tractor "maker") > 3. Consumer