TYM Presence.

Texasmark · Monday at 11:58 AM

Either one dealer hits all the Craigs list tractors for sale listings for all the cities and farms within a 200 mile radius of my farm at least, or TYM has saturated the market in this area. Ideas?

JRH02 · Monday at 1:02 PM

Can you explain you post a bit further?

oldnslo · Monday at 3:21 PM

I see very few TYM or Branson for sale in this area since TYM did not retain local Branson dealer. Kubota has upped their dealership network though.

DynamicD · Monday at 3:57 PM

According to the dealer locator there are 11 TYM dealers in Texas

Torvy · Monday at 10:06 PM

Texasmark said:
Either one dealer hits all the Craigs list tractors for sale listings for all the cities and farms within a 200 mile radius of my farm at least, or TYM has saturated the market in this area. Ideas?

Not sure what you mean. I literally just got a mailer from a new Dealer just West of Paris. There's one in Tyler, Longview and Carthage. The Longview business has a sister store in Seagovillle. Another pair in FW and Granbury.

JeepHead · Tuesday at 8:26 AM

There was only one TYM dealer anywhere close to me that I was able to find when I was shopping. They went under firly quickly though and I do not know of another one around. There seems to be a Kubota dealer in every little town around me though, and Deere is right there too.

Torvy · Tuesday at 8:40 AM

For me, there's a happy medium. Deere's model is really just one dealer with many storefronts. Part of the advantage of more dealers is to negotiate (money and attentiveness).

JD and Kubota are both more concerned with commercial and government contracts than with most of us small potatoes. JD does a good job with big AG guys, too.

In the last year, TYM has been actively building their network, not just with more dealers, but with a few bigger/better dealers (see Gold). They will never be as widespread as JD or Kubota. That's not a bad thing to me. In 2 years, I needed filters for 50 hour service and a phone call about a question.

Texasmark · Tuesday at 5:00 PM

JRH02 said:
Can you explain you post a bit further?

We'll go to tractors for sale on CG and put in Dallas....then spread out in a radius from Dallas a couple hundred miles.....see for yourself what brand of NEW tractor keeps showing up in all the answers.

TractorTYMe · Tuesday at 5:24 PM

Good? Bad?

Torvy · Tuesday at 6:55 PM

I don't use Craigslist. Too many scammers.

My guess would be that sone of the dealers saw it as an under-served market.

Similar to how JD and Kubota rarely ran ads during the troubles (they were selling anyway), the bigger names probably don't feel the need to advertise in that way.