TROUBLE WITH KUBOTA?

tbarber · Apr 8, 2002

The worst dealer I went to was Howard Johnson's JD in
Rhode Island. The salesman was the biggest %$#@ HOLE
iv'e ever seen. I asked him for the price on a 4110 he told me I was wasting his time and to get out. So I told him to %$@ him self and left with a smile.
If your interested his name is Steve.

CSAW · Apr 8, 2002

I think this type of tactict is on a dealer by dealer basis. When I was looking the Kubota dealer was the one who did the most competition bashing. The JD dealer did a little. I would only listen to a salesmans knowledge of his own product not the competition's. Personally I think much more can be learned from TRACTOR BY NET than from any dealer. The people here do what they do because they want to, not because they have to sell tractors to make a living.

chainsawrich · Apr 8, 2002

I never thought about it but you are right the Kubota dealer never bad mouthed any other dealer, but when I looked at the massy's they did have a lot of neg. feedback towards Orange. Funny how after all that I also whent with the KOBUTA!

Boondox · Apr 8, 2002

<font color=blue>OB1=OB2=OLIVER1=Troll</font color=blue>

Yet another argument for registration. (Sorry, JMIII!)

Pete

PowerMax · Apr 8, 2002

I received an interesting tidbit of information, while finalizing my tractor deal, last week. The dealership (in SE Ohio) has been in business for over 50 years. Started out as a Ford dealer and added Kubota in the mid-seventies. He's still selling both New Holland and Kubota. I asked which he sells more of - Kubota or NH? His response: "We sell 70 Kubota's to every NH." I asked, "Did you say '7' or '70'." He said, "70." I couldn't believe it! Granted a lot of those sales are probably L&G tractors, but still ...

Jeff

TresCrows · Apr 9, 2002

Obviously selling 70 to 1 is is not good enough, oh well, I guess Kubota will be shuting down soon. Oh dear oh my.
Yep, Oliver equals Ob1.
I hate to prevent not registered people from posting, everyone has a 'first" post and not everyone realizes the first visit how valuable TBN is and that 90 percent of the folks here are sincere, helpfull, ernest and honest people who just want to help other tractor guys out and have some fun with talking tractor, talking tractor is not the same as talking trash ----and Kubota going out of buisness is some kinda trash. Garbage in and garbage out. Anything is possible in this world today but I don't obtain my world information/education from a "salesman" who this week is selling tractors and next week appliances at Sears.
J

Anonymous Poster · Apr 9, 2002

It's funny how how people will make up what they want to believe. I hate to burst Y'all's bubble but I don't know OLIVER or Ob2.
Ob1

BTI · Apr 9, 2002

Where in SE Ohio is this dealer located?
Thanks

PowerMax · Apr 9, 2002

BTI,

It's Lashley's -out in Quaker City (right on Seneca Lake). Dennis Lashley is a really good guy, and easy to deal with. This was only dealership where I dealt directly with the owner, which was nice. They have also recently opened another store on the north side of Zanesville.

Jeff