John Deere Gone !!!!!!

SJ · Jun 20, 2009

Well two JD dealers are gone in the area.Upstate western New York.The one Ive been doing business with for 12 years with in Dansville, now sells,McCormick tractors,Allis Chalmers and Simplicity lawn tractors,Club Car utility side by sides(USA made they say),Korean motorcycles(name brand of Cruiser)and a bunch of scooters and mopeds.Supposedly Jd headquarters told them to partner up with 3-4 area dealers or get no more products from us.said they will still carry Jd parts though.OK so I said I need such and such and they said ok that will be 2-3 days.Man I feel like crap,are we screwed or what?
Now somebody will probably have some kinda good opinion about this,so be it.I just think it sucks.

Stan

Formerly PaMike · Jun 20, 2009

Yup, they did the same thing here is Pa. They were all independant dealers. Now, they are all tpgether as one business with 3 locations. Now there is no competition on price to get your business....

big hunter · Jun 20, 2009

and to top that off some of the parts are made in China.

hay · Jun 20, 2009

just wait until ya order a some parts for a JD and find that it is the wrong ones. and then the parts numbers are superceded and the new number parts do not fit and the JD company is scratching their butt trying to figger what is wrong. meanwhile my hay mowing/raking tractor is idle with a broken part and no one can straighten the parts number game out. whadda a mess. i'm losing money because i can't cut hay, but that don't matter to JD company. they already got their money when i bought the parts that don't fit!

Dave 2N · Jun 20, 2009

Horrors! Do you mean that the great "green and yellow" actually went to China to get parts? Like they went to Japan for their lower horsepower tractors? What"s the world coming too?

I am not trying to start a color war nor am I condoning what JD did on parts sourcing-I have three 2 cyl. JD"s--but it"s past time for the JD "purists" and "elitists" to wake up and realize that JD is no different than other companies.

Can you say "Global Economy?"

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2009

Took the dealership from the John Deere here and they had the business 58 years.

Spook · Jun 20, 2009

I am not a "green" guy, but those McCormick tractors aren't made here either. JD started importing small tractors maybe as far back as the 60's.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 20, 2009

JD was one of the first tractor companies in the US to sell foreign made tractors under their own name started back in the 60's

oliver power · Jun 20, 2009

Deere may be out of Dansville. Not a big loss for farmers. For the most part, they were mainly lawn mowers, not farm tractors. Still, too bad for the lawn mower people. The next John Deere dealer south of Dansville also got the axe. He had done mostly farm tractors, and lawn mowers.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2009

Remember that IH Cockshutt and Oliver also had imported tractors in1960. Cockshutt & IH in the late 1950's. The Deere dealer the boys work has 3 other stores. Parts wise it is a Plus.

Billy Shafer · Jun 20, 2009

Nearest dealer to me is about fifty miles away. Do not see many JD tractors around here. Mostly old Fords,Kubota and old IH units.

NY 986 · Jun 20, 2009

Well, at least they were able to hold out quite a bit longer than the rest of the dealers in the Southern Tier area. Never did business with either dealer but was told by a number of people that the ag dealer had not been competitive on prices for quite some time. Would like to hear from those that live in that area as agriculture seems to have declined in that area and a lot of agricultural businesses have closed. As far as farm equipment goes, you see an outpost for a multiple location dealer (Lamb and Webster, Monroe, Empire, etc.) with a couple of independents. Hate to see anybody's business be closed but it seems to be typical for the entire upstate area anymore.

buickanddeere · Jun 20, 2009

Same with car dealerships, grocery stores, hardware stores and even restaurants.
It's all about efficiency and cost. The company has to keep overhead down. You can't have it both ways. How people have you heard whine about the price of a JD etc ?

Formerly PaMike · Jun 20, 2009

Which dealers were they? Think they would sell any of their deere shop equipment?

kyplowboy · Jun 20, 2009

Just as well they quit. The local JD and CIH dealers here have each been eat'n up by the big local chain that keeps growing. Both were never the best at have'n what you needed but the story used to be we can have it in here by 8 in the morning. Now they say we have it at a other store that's 150 miles from here, I can have it late tomarrow afternoon. Why it takes 8 hours longer to get a part a shorter distance is great efficency. Oh and they have one guy who runs parts, he goes to each store every day and it cost a % of the price of the part to get him to bring a part from one store to another. If you a getting a rear tractor wheel thats a good deal, if your getting a real small electronic high dollar deal its a joke. I have told both to keep parts because they were going to charge so much more to have their guy bring a part from store to store than they could have UPS'ed it for, which would have been quicker.

I don't get it. It's like the goverment came up with this crap. Just glad we still have a real NH dealer here, not an outlet store.

Dave

TomTex · Jun 20, 2009

You will see more and more dealers of all brands closing up shop. They just cant make it anymore. In the old days, farmers bought their twine, wire, rake teeth, plow points, disks, and other comsumables at the local dealer. These high volume sales kept the dealers afloat, and made up for low sales of expensive OEM parts. Nowadays, the typical American penny-pincher shops all over town, big box stores, on-line, e-bay, craigs list, etc and buy the cheapest China junk they can find; THEN cry that the dealer is closing. For the dealer to make it selling only those OEM parts that the penny-pinchers cant find elsewhere, the markup has to be as high as a redwood tree is tall, which causes more complaints. We have 2 dealers left and I dont know for how long. Tom

Dick W. · Jun 20, 2009

At least the president/government haven't announced yet that they are going to own the farm equipment companies.

oliver power · Jun 20, 2009

The two dealers are still in business. They went to another brand besides John Deere. Looks like Avon, NY will be the local John Deere dealer home.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2009

this should be a positive thing since the McCormicks were originally a Case tractor now you will have a chance to buy a real tractor!!!!!

ray sprague · Jun 20, 2009

yeah but those McCormicks they are made in france now a freind of mine bought one had some trouble at frist but he likes it he said worst thing is getting parts little slow on that so he said

IndianaRed · Jun 21, 2009

New McCormicks, right?

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