tony3542
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Any good places to buy Tractor parts.Like Rockauto is to cars and trucks?
Tractor Parts
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MessickFarmEqu
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Kevinc2004
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Best part about this, is they will send you a live schematic with the item numbers on the pictures and the part numbers, with price in the table below. It takes a lot of GUESS out of exactly how it is assembled! Personally, I have had great service from them!
LD1
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Kubota parts are pretty exclusive to dealers only.
Dont rule out your local dealer. I always look up prices on messicks before calling my dealer, just for an idea on prices. Dealer is usually in the same ballpark. Some times a coupe bucks more, sometimes a couple bucks less......and dont have to pay to ship.
Dont rule out your local dealer. I always look up prices on messicks before calling my dealer, just for an idea on prices. Dealer is usually in the same ballpark. Some times a coupe bucks more, sometimes a couple bucks less......and dont have to pay to ship.
ehenry
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Like LD1, I will generally go to the local dealer. Messicks is a great bunch of folks and I've bought parts from them. I've found on some things I can get them cheaper through Messicks but most of the time after you add freight in you just as well buy locally.
Fallon
Super Member
I was on the phone with Messick's an hour ago. The parts guy went down & was opening boxes to verify some questions I had about bearings for an old Ford 918 flail. Good support, good people & good prices from what I've heard & matches my experiences with em.
Your local dealer is usually a good bet too.
Your local dealer is usually a good bet too.
MessickFarmEqu
Super Member
I can actually concur with this. With a few exceptions, its hard to do parts business as the 'cheap' guy, especially when we factor in freight. We simply aim to provide a better customer experience. Our staff are well trained, our logistics processes are highly tuned, we extend our website to include lots of additional info that others do not, etc.
LD1
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Not trying to throw anyone under the rug or anything, but I would continue to work on your "logistics" processes, if things havent changed within the last year or so.
Nothing irritates me more, or makes me take my business elsewhere, like outrageous shipping charges. I try to support my local dealer(s) whenever I can, but sometimes they just dont have parts, or cannot get them in a timely manner. So I am forced to shop online.
I will agree that your website is top notch. And use it frequently. But back in Jan of this year, I needed some valve stem seals for my old ford backhoe. 4 little hat style seals, 4 little o-rings. For those that arent familiar, the 4 hat style seals, they are smaller than the cap on a standard highlighter. So pretty small. The 4 o-rings....even smaller.
I ordered over the phone, and partly my fault for not confirming shipping cost...but was pretty shocked when they showed up in a 6x6x4h fex ex box and charged $18 from PA to OH.
A simple phone call to express my concerns and I am a happy camper again. I buy and sell alot of odds and ends online, and when selling, I always try to ship in the cheapest way I can. Perhaps that is the smallest box fed-ex offers? and perhaps that is the only company you deal with? Which would make $18 the minimum shipping cost for whatever you ship......But a handful of o-rings and seals I was expecting a $4 padded envelope, or at worst case a ~$6 small flat rate box via USPS.
Would I order from messicks again......absolutely. I just be sure to verify shipping first. Things happen. Its how they handle it when things dont go right that tells me all I need to know about that business. And messicks couldnt have handled my concerns any better.:thumbsup:
MessickFarmEqu
Super Member
Yea, that sounds nuts. Can you PM me your name so I can lookup your order and see why that happened?
Shipping is one of the biggest challenges we have with online business. May not apply in this case, but a lot of it stems from having approx 6 million part numbers in the computer, most of which do not have weight or size information with them. We often make programmatic assumptions so we can put prices to things, but with several light weight parts things can go off-the-rails at times.
Shipping is one of the biggest challenges we have with online business. May not apply in this case, but a lot of it stems from having approx 6 million part numbers in the computer, most of which do not have weight or size information with them. We often make programmatic assumptions so we can put prices to things, but with several light weight parts things can go off-the-rails at times.