Why buy new

[Code54]

Somebody's gotta buy new one's or you old folks will run out of used ones to buy. :laughing:

LOL - guess he has a point there!

 

[ch1ch2]

Have you seen the OP of this one?


https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/john-deere-buying-pricing/382866-ugh-im-so-sick-john.html

 

[rScotty]

Somebody's gotta buy new one's or you old folks will run out of used ones to buy. :laughing:

Yeppers, and speaking for the old farts, we would like to thank you. We do appreciate your doing that for us..... but we also kind of wish you wouldn't.... and here's why...

It's because this buying things new craze is completely nutty and upsidedown.
Sure, us oldsters don't always buy used....but you can be sure that we take a careful look at what is available in the used market before we buy new. After all, we aren't allergic to saving money, and we can use our mechanical knowledge to tell us when a good used tractor is likely to be more reliable than a new one. After all, the warranty is for what? Two years??? And a tractor is good for 40. It's going to be used for a whole lot longer than it was new.
It's at least a double winner if we find a good used one.

But the nutty upsidedown part is that us old guys really could afford to buy new if we had to .... and we are concerned not for ourselves as much as for so many younger guys who really shouldn't be taking on more credit. We know - and they know - that ought to be learning enough to buy used - but how to do that?
rScotty

 

[ch1ch2]

:thumbsup:

 

[ovrszd]

I think financing is the biggest contributor to new purchases.

 

[Like Tractors]

I buy new because I like the smell of a new cab tractor and I like the shiny paint! I thought everybody knew that is the reason! But it does workout good that some people like to buy used, for instance the guy that bought my used Kubota when I bought a nice, shiny, good smelling L6060HSTC.

 

[fried1765]

Yeppers, and speaking for the old farts, we would like to thank you. We do appreciate your doing that for us..... but we also kind of wish you wouldn't.... and here's why...

It's because this buying things new craze is completely nutty and upsidedown.
Sure, us oldsters don't always buy used....but you can be sure that we take a careful look at what is available in the used market before we buy new. After all, we aren't allergic to saving money, and we can use our mechanical knowledge to tell us when a good used tractor is likely to be more reliable than a new one. After all, the warranty is for what? Two years??? And a tractor is good for 40. It's going to be used for a whole lot longer than it was new.
It's at least a double winner if we find a good used one.

But the nutty upsidedown part is that us old guys really could afford to buy new if we had to .... and we are concerned not for ourselves as much as for so many younger guys who really shouldn't be taking on more credit. We know - and they know - that ought to be learning enough to buy used - but how to do that?
rScotty

I could not have said it any better !!!!!

 

[fried1765]

I buy new because I like the smell of a new cab tractor and I like the shiny paint! I thought everybody knew that is the reason! But it does workout good that some people like to buy used, for instance the guy that bought my used Kubota when I bought a nice, shiny, good smelling L6060HSTC.

So.....what will that expensive ..."nice, shiny, good smelling L6060HSTC" look/smell like two years from now, when there are still 5 years of payments remaining?

Or...will you roll the note over at the end of 2 years, and get another "nice, shiny, good smelling L6060HSTC"?

 

[Like Tractors]

So.....what will that expensive ..."nice, shiny, good smelling L6060HSTC" look/smell like two years from now, when there are still 5 years of payments remaining?

Or...will you roll the note over at the end of 2 years, and get another "nice, shiny, good smelling L6060HSTC"?

Well the L6060HSTC wasn't expensive, was bought with cash in 2016, still smells like new and is still very shiny. The M7060 that I bought with cash couple months ago also smells new and is very shiny, imagine that! Now the L2900 that I sold was mistaken for a new tractor buy the people that bought it from me, I bought that tractor in 1994, if that is any indication of how I take care of my property. What are these payments you speak of? What is rolling a note over all about?

 

[ovrszd]

Well the L6060HSTC wasn't expensive, was bought with cash in 2016, still smells like new and is still very shiny. The M7060 that I bought with cash couple months ago also smells new and is very shiny, imagine that! Now the L2900 that I sold was mistaken for a new tractor buy the people that bought it from me, I bought that tractor in 1994, if that is any indication of how I take care of my property. What are these payments you speak of? What is rolling a note over all about?

Sometimes we think we know more about a fellow poster than we actually do. Causes what my Dad called "eating crow".