Wonder why?

[jeff9366]

Dealers here do not take trades as basic policy unless the deal is lucrative for them. Tractors are not like cars/pickups; used always in demand at all price levels. It cost money to have a chunk of iron setting around.

My dealer instead takes them on consignment from the seller. Naturally there is little incentive to push used when their core business is selling new. Most used SCUTS and CUTS around here are sold on CL or private deals.

This is the situation where I live in Florida too.

If the tractor has been serviced by my Kubota dealer and there is no pending warranty work he is willing to take Kubotas in trade, if the seller is willing to accept a price than gives the dealer an acceptable potential profit. Dealer prefers some warranty time remaining.

Dealer only accepts Kubota consignments when they are part of a new tractor purchase. Consignments are almost always tractors which have not been serviced by the dealer or tractors about which the dealer has some reservation: multiple prior owners, origin out of state, or where current owner got a 'great buy' at an auction. Dealer makes clear that he is facilitating an exchange but that purchase is really from the consignment owner, not the dealer.

Consignment priced tractors are usually significantly cheaper than trade in tractors here. The dealer does not want too much consignment equipment in the yard.

I suppose the dealer's interest in consignment sales is mostly about making a new tractor purchase easy, perhaps in the potential for service from buyers of consignment Kubota tractors.

 

[Thomas]

Hmmm....just another sales angle???

 

[Motorboatin]

Green and orange CUTs are considered by many to be premium tractors and they probably don’t have a problem moving them off their lot. The names they listed probably sit on the lot longer

Dealers want to make money not have it tied up in inventory

 

[Ford850]

They could still accept those brands in trade, but offer a much lower price so they can sell them afterwards. But maybe that's the problem. Owners of those other brands want too much in trade and get offended by low offers in trade. Better off saying "we don't take them in trade" and "go sell it yourself for what you think it's worth" which doesn't offend anyone and they don't lose potential customers.

 

[devildog1]

To be fair this is From their Home web page,Abele Tractor & Equipment Company, Inc. is a 140 year old company. It is currently in its fifth generation of family ownership and operation. Its core business is sales, renting/leasing and servicing of construction equipment. The company also sells and services equipment for grounds maintenance for both commercial and consumer type customers. Abele Tractor is the dealer for fifty plus major manufacturers of equipment. So they are quite successful in what the offer their customers but is seems that there core business is construction and rental equipment. So maybe that's there reason for not accepting certain manufactures equipment sitting on their lot? humn?
SemperFi
Devildog,

 

[CMV]

This is the situation where I live in Florida too.

If the tractor has been serviced by my Kubota dealer and there is no pending warranty work he is willing to take Kubotas in trade, if the seller is willing to accept a price than gives the dealer an acceptable potential profit. Dealer prefers some warranty time remaining.

Dealer only accepts Kubota consignments when they are part of a new tractor purchase. Consignments are almost always tractors which have not been serviced by the dealer or tractors about which the dealer has some reservation: multiple prior owners, origin out of state, or where current owner got a 'great buy' at an auction. Dealer makes clear that he is facilitating an exchange but that purchase is really from the consignment owner, not the dealer.

Consignment priced tractors are usually significantly cheaper than trade in tractors here. The dealer does not want too much consignment equipment in the yard.

I suppose the dealer's interest in consignment sales is mostly about making a new tractor purchase easy, perhaps in the potential for service from buyers of consignment Kubota tractors.

One of the 2 local Kubota dealers by me is same way. Will take your Kubota in as trade, but anything else will sell on consignment for you (for a %). They keep the consignment stuff on a separate lot - but right there.

I can kind of see doing that regardless what brand I sold if I were a dealer. Machines all in same class from all the manufacturers have different pros & cons. I might not want potential buyers doing side-by-side comparisons and finding out the other brand has something they like a lot more than how my brand does it.

The previous comment about owners over-valuing their trades is a good point too. All the trade-in estimates for mine were what I considered to be about 20% below what I should get selling it privately. And I was correct - machine was worth what I thought it was selling to a private party. That's probably same amount dealer would get out of it, so that 20% difference is what they'd get for the hassle of reselling it.

 

[MaineGuy1]

It's their business, I am sure they know what sells and doesn't sell in that area. If they can't profit off those machines and risk them sitting around I don't blame them. What some people don't realize is not all tractors are well known in different parts of the country. I never heard of TYM until I started researching tractors, we have one LS dealer that has a TYM sign up but I haven't seen one on his lot.

 

[mred2]

You might also want to ask, why are trading the tractor. They purchased too small, bad service from other dealer, lemon tractor, just not happy. You are taking someone problems and trying to sell them. Most is likely due to not making enough profit to take them.

 

[Diggin It]

Maybe they don't want their clients to see that there are better brands available.

 

[4570Man]

Maybe they don't want their clients to see that there are better brands available.

Cheaper definitely. Better value maybe. Now actually flat out better is a real stretch.