Yanmars are going to cost more real soon

[YanmarFever]

The way the yen is dropping and the dollar being devalued less every day, us dealers have to pay more for the machines.

We just received a container here that cost us more than at any other time in the last 12 years!

I remember the yen at 124 to the dollar, where as today its at 89

Im beginning to wonder if its still worth importing them.

Nice tractors, but boy were they spendy !!

Ernies Imports

 

[Smoody]

All good things come to an end....unfortunately.

If the prices for a UTDA Yanmar with FEL get any higher it would be foolish for any consumer to purchase when they can go with a NEW orange or green for the same $ and get the 3 year warranty.

 

[turnerbend]

The way the yen is dropping and the dollar being devalued less every day, us dealers have to pay more for the machines.

We just received a container here that cost us more than at any other time in the last 12 years!

I remember the yen at 124 to the dollar, where as today its at 89

Im beginning to wonder if its still worth importing them.

Nice tractors, but boy were they spendy !!

Ernies Imports

When I was in Japan some years back, 360 yens = $1.00.

 

[deepNdirt]

When I was in Japan some years back, 360 yens = $1.00.

I remember when 4 wedge slices of a yam equal 1 whole sweet potato

If the the cost of importing tractors are going up, thus will pass cost onto the consumers, then the folks buying the most recent imported tractors
will be agreeing to and help encouraging inflated cost, One would think? that the tractors already over here would be selling first instead at a much lower cost before any of the newly imported tractors will,
but the way I see it and will most likely happen,
the tractors already over here will increase in their value simply because of the new shipments,

 

[California]

This may shift the advantage to Korea over Japan, if Korea's exchange rate doesn't decline like Japan's. Anybody want a Kioti? Mahindra? Pretty good tractors and a new one might be priced same as a late used Yanmar.

 

[Smoody]

If the the cost of importing tractors are going up, thus will pass cost onto the consumers, then the folks buying the most recent imported tractors
will be agreeing to and help encouraging inflated cost, One would think? that the tractors already over here would be selling first instead at a much lower cost before any of the newly imported tractors will,
but the way I see it and will most likely happen,
the tractors already over here will increase in their value simply because of the new shipments,

I agree with you and this will more then likely happen. I priced a "new" Yanmar 2310D with Koyker FEL and was quoted 12k, I can buy a new orange or green for close to that price w/ 3 year warranty, so the prices are already to high for me ever to consider buying a 20-30 yr old Yanmar again, except the random used by owner deals you can run across on craigslist.

Im just curious as to where the Yanmars would end up if US Importers stopped because of the expense, The Japanese Exporters would hurt as well and there would be a ton of perfectly good yannies rusting away. so sad....

I just wish you could buy Yanmars straight out the container from a dealer, untouched, no UTDA accessories, no paint, nothing, but that isn't going to happen, I have tried.

 

[California]

I expect the used Yanmars will now be sold cheap to the nearby poorer countries that have similar agriculture, ie Vietnam, Thailand, etc, since they are priced out of the market here.

 

[bruce1966us]

Sure you can.... just got to know where to look

 

[Smoody]

Sure you can.... just got to know where to look

care to enlighten me? PM me if so, thx

 

[bruce1966us]

PM sent. Thanks

 

[blackd]

You know exchange rates are funny. They effect all prices, so prices on new Japanese tractors will also go up. Some other currencies may not go up at the same rate as the Yen, but go up they will. If they are not, you might reconsider buying from that country's manufacturers.

 

[YanmarFever]

Well.... these are used tractors, they are not new

 

[EFC]

Im just curious as to where the Yanmars would end up if US Importers stopped because of the expense, The Japanese Exporters would hurt as well and there would be a ton of perfectly good yannies rusting away. so sad....

It is in our nature as Americans to assume we are always the biggest. For the exporters, the US market is small. Eastern Europe, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, Italy, N Africa, S America are huge markets. I have friends in both Portugal and Italy that buy 8 to 10 containers a week (140 to 180 tractors) and that is for their own stores, they are not brokers. There used to be a buyer from Iran that would buy 700 tractors at a time and during certain times of the year he was buying twice a month. Not only would he buy huge amounts of tractors he would buy tractors in any condition unlike American buyers who can be difficult and always demand the higher quality units. He would look at the yard and say "I will take everything from here to there, now lets go eat". The Japanese love that!

Buck

 

[Smoody]

Im just curious as to where the Yanmars would end up if US Importers stopped because of the expense, The Japanese Exporters would hurt as well and there would be a ton of perfectly good yannies rusting away. so sad....

It is in our nature as Americans to assume we are always the biggest. For the exporters, the US market is small. Eastern Europe, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, Italy, N Africa, S America are huge markets. I have friends in both Portugal and Italy that buy 8 to 10 containers a week (140 to 180 tractors) and that is for their own stores, they are not brokers. There used to be a buyer from Iran that would buy 700 tractors at a time and during certain times of the year he was buying twice a month. Not only would he buy huge amounts of tractors he would buy tractors in any condition unlike American buyers who can be difficult and always demand the higher quality units. He would look at the yard and say "I will take everything from here to there, now lets go eat". The Japanese love that!

Buck

I wasn't aware, thanks for the info.

Just a FYI $1 US = 90.63 JPY as of today