What makes a good product better

[ovrszd]

Your dealership looks to be very professionally ran and organized. I don't have a dealer anywhere near me like that.

I hadn't saw the toolbox yet but last time I was in my closest dealership they had a Kubota chest type soda pop cooler. My wife asked about it, but it wasn't for sale. :laughing:

 

[4shorts]

Your dealership looks to be very professionally ran and organized. I don't have a dealer anywhere near me like that.

I hadn't saw the toolbox yet but last time I was in my closest dealership they had a Kubota chest type soda pop cooler. My wife asked about it, but it wasn't for sale. :laughing:

They are a pretty big dealership. They sell truck and JCB equipment. They are on top of things and it shows.

Hum. You got me interested in that Kubota cooler. Must have been something they had custom done. I dabble in that sort of thing as well. Here's a few examples of some old 1953 Coca Cola coolers that I converted into a diner table and another I converted into a sofa. Now I just might do a Kubota cooler :thumbsup:

Ya. I think I got a bad Coke habit :confused3:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Home Depot sells that toolbox online for 599 dollars.They also sell the identical toolbox with the Husky name, painted black, for 299 dollars.A lot of money for an orange paint job.

Oh, I did not know HD sold that.

 

[Scooby074]

Oh, I did not know HD sold that.

Me neither. Wonder when they got into the Kubota stuff? With them selling JD mowers, you'd think that there would be no way Deere would let anything Kubota be sold at HD.

Link to Kubota box:
Kubota | Kubota 35" Tool Chest | Home Depot Canada


Husky branded box, now on for $224!
Husky | Husky 35 Inch Professional Tool Chest | Home Depot Canada



IF I still got my mail at the end of my driveway, I'd be all over this for$19.99

 

[Scooby074]

Paul, no doubt Newfoundland Kubota are a fine dealer, however from what Ive been told, they are consistently SEVERAL thousand dollars more than a dealer on the mainland for the same tractor. Did you price shop over here? Or were you not concerned with the difference?

 

[4shorts]

Paul, no doubt Newfoundland Kubota are a fine dealer, however from what Ive been told, they are consistently SEVERAL thousand dollars more than a dealer on the mainland for the same tractor. Did you price shop over here? Or were you not concerned with the difference?

That was the case when I first started buying Kubota's. I really don't think its much of an issue These days. The deal that I got on this machine was very much cheaper than I could get it in the US let alone NS.
I also found in the past that dealers outside NL tried to discourage us from buying outside the Provence. Then there was the price of shipping
I know I'd never get this new tractor cheaper anywhere but I'd still not want to bypass my dealer and get it elsewhere. They'd have to be WAY out to lunch on the pricing for me to do that. We call that "biting off your nose despite your face". You never know when you'll need your dealer. :ashamed:

 

[Scooby074]

Good point about having a local dealer. Curious about which dealers over here were discouraging people from Nl purchasing? I know my dealer regularly hauls a trailer/wk to Newfoundland in the peak season. They seem to have no issues selling over there? Good point on shipping, last tractor my bro bought included shipping, now, with Marine Atlantic's latest price gouging, I dont know if they still do that.

Glad to hear that Nfld Kubota has come around. Must have been pretty recent though My brother was saying that they were still high last time he checked.

Not a tractor, but one of his friends just bought a new semi tractor from here in NS. It was $30k cheaper! Our prices are high, but you guys on the rock seem to even have it worse.

 

[mjncad]

Ya. I think I got a bad Coke habit :confused3:

Oh man the US DEA is going to be all over you for your Coke habit. :laughing:

 

[4shorts]

Good point about having a local dealer. Curious about which dealers over here were discouraging people from Nl purchasing? I know my dealer regularly hauls a trailer/wk to Newfoundland in the peak season. They seem to have no issues selling over there? Good point on shipping, last tractor my bro bought included shipping, now, with Marine Atlantic's latest price gouging, I dont know if they still do that.

Glad to hear that Nfld Kubota has come around. Must have been pretty recent though My brother was saying that they were still high last time he checked.

Not a tractor, but one of his friends just bought a new semi tractor from here in NS. It was $30k cheaper! Our prices are high, but you guys on the rock seem to even have it worse.

I wouldn't know about the truck pricing. Thank God I haven't gotten into trucks :laughing: When we have checked the Kubota pricing in the past between NS dealers and our NL dealer the deference wasn't worth the phone call and that's where the conversation went by the NS dealer saying " we can price it up but its better to purchase it in your local area". That was back in 2008 and things could be very much different these days. As I said, for the pricing I get and the service I couldn't turn my back on our dealer.

I remember last year when we decided to special order a new Mustang. We got our pricing here on it then decided to call a few dealers in NS. We where very surprised to see our prices were actually better than the ones from NS Ford dealers and some of them prices were way off by a long shot so we ordered it from our dealer just up the road, received it eight weeks later and all is good.
Maybe its just a fluke with us? I don't know but I call it as I see it :confused3:

Oh man the US DEA is going to be all over you for your Coke habit. :laughing:

Oh boy. Never thought about that! :shocked: :laughing:

 

[CHDinCT]

Wow, how did I miss this thread? I did note you said in the BX70/25D thread that you would post photo's of your soon to be BX25D and kept looking over there for them. Well I just have one word for this thread - SUBSCRIBED! :licking: