What gives with dealers on tractor house?

[fried1765]

speaking for us... this happens frequently. We have several $25-$30,000 products where a sub $1000 margin is totally normal. You'd pay more tax than we make in profit.

Profitability in the equipment business comes from parts and service, you pretty much give equipment away to make money on the long term service and support aspects.




Personally. I am not a big fan of Tractor House. For one is extremely expensive to advertise and almost all the value any more comes from their website, but they won't let you list on the website without also paying for the print issues. Their page counts go down year and year as more dealers realize you can't recoup your advertising investment in sales.

Messick's is nearly 400 miles from me, and there are many other tractor dealers between my place and theirs.
I have only OLD (Ford) tractors, and at my age may not buy a new one.
My 3 old Fords are in nearly pristine condition, in part because Messick's is absolutely FANTASTIC with Ford parts support.
Messick's has earned my loyalty with their Ford parts support.
I would absolutely call Messick's FIRST if I were going to buy a new tractor.
In my opinion they are a first class operation!

 

[LD1]

I shouldn't get into a lot of detail here. Getting off topic in the thread already so don't want to hijack any further so this will be my final response here.

The seller seems to be an independent used equipment dealer. Has a lot of transactions and equipment listed on ebay. He's about to get another red spot but only had a few to start so I thought I could trust his description and answers to my questions. I messaged him this morning to let him know of my disappointment to see if he offers any resolve before I give negative feedback on him.

Since my last post I got the brakes to bleed out a little but they still won't hold. First stroke goes straight to the floor and has to be pumped up. I will try flushing a little more of that $20 per quart NH brake oil through them but I assume the old ran out inside the rear axle. It looks dry at the masters. Newest revelation is it will only run about 5 minutes then shuts off. Has to sit 30 minutes or so before it will restart. Oh and the 4WD doesn't work either. Almost stuck it in some damp clay. Lifted it with the bucket and put it in gear and the front wheels don't even move. Finding a lot of broken and disconnected wires so I'm hoping for a simple fix on the 4WD.

I would be wanting my money back and returning it on their dime.

 

[TractorGuy]

Whenever I go to Tractor House, my browser can't back out of it (with back button). So I end up clicking a bunch of times.
Is this just my computer?
Conspiracy Theory:
Or is this a way for them to get a few million extra clicks, so they can use those numbers when they sell spots to dealers????
Like the **** sites trap you, once u click...not that I would know anything about that, of coarse. :ashamed:

This site has all of a sudden started taking two clicks to back out of every page. Anybody else notice that?

 

[AxleHub]

Jd855,

I had read more thsn 1 thread on tbn about a guy who was buying tractor and some construction equipment on Craigslist and ebay and just picking it up and relisting it right away at much higher prices and representing it as either his or a relative or friends and claiming it was in great shape etc. etc. and acting like he knew the history but didn't know anything but what the original seller had listed and told him.

Sometimes even used the same pictures etc..

I'm with LD1 . . I'd contact Ebay for their input and quality assurance issues guarantee. Looks like you got the short stick.