Comparison Yanmar lawsuit.

[rambler]

Just think, there are hundreds of thousands of old JD's, Fords, Massey's, Oliver's and IH that dont have ROPS, safety switches, PTO covers, etc. Wonder if the parent companies will follow yanmar's lead????
It's crazy!!!!

CNH, Agco, and JD will follow suit if this silliness continues, and prompt how safety minded they are as they pull support for, and remove from the market, the old tractors.

And then, of couse, what choice do we have, but to buy new tractors - from Yanmar, Agco, CNH, JD, Kubota.....

They are all kinda hoping this silliness does continue.

It is in their best intrest if the old iron is melted down, and they get to sell new plastic and pot metal machines.

You all don't get it. The parent comanies see this as an oppertunity, not as a bad thing?

More sales!

--->Paul

 

[speedy2]

I have a Honda tiller with a metal tag that says this tiller is designed to run at 2000 rpms.

 

[clemsonfor]

I have a Honda tiller with a metal tag that says this tiller is designed to run at 2000 rpms.

So? Whats your point? Was this post a mistake? Very strange thing to post in this thread.

 

[tb8100]

In our settlement, if all goes as it should, we should be able to service our customers' Yanmars for 24 months. Not ideal, but better than cutting people off completely. Wonder how Hoye is faring.

 

[California]

That's what we are all holding our breath to learn.

I have sort of a vague idea that Aaron's parts service is separate from the original Hoye tractor sales - I hope sufficiently separate to survive this and continue on. He probably doesn't want too much speculation posted until this is all over so lets leave it at that.

 

[kenmac]

In our settlement, if all goes as it should, we should be able to service our customers' Yanmars for 24 months. Not ideal, but better than cutting people off completely. Wonder how Hoye is faring.

Settlement ?? Someone gave in to the Yanmar Lawyers

 

[Car Doc]

He who has the most money wins. That pretty much sizes it up for us end users too not just the middle men like Hoye etc. my .002

 

[tb8100]

Settlement ?? Someone gave in to the Yanmar Lawyers

Any dealer with sense would settle. There is a chance that Yanmar would lose, but the precedents don't look good. Even if Yanmar lost, our attorneys would pocket $100,000-$200,000.

I'm not a gambling man.

 

[kenmac]

I'm not a gambling man.

I guess you will just have to bend over then. Some of these dealers have alot of $$$ to loose to do that. I don't think their suite holds water. If it does, a lot of dealers of all types would be in trouble

 

[California]

Any news?

Does anyone know which gray market dealers - especially the parts guys - will continue on?

 

[clemsonfor]

I am hopeing that At leat Hoye will stay at it currently set up. Not that i want any legit business to go under but i get plenty of stuff from them.

 

[Car Doc]

I hope they all do ok the parts guys anyway. If not then I know I will have a hard time buying another Yanmar tractor just so I can buy parts for it. I may well end up with Yanmar power and be happy about that but it will be in a green and yellow tractor.

 

[Andy in Gap]

I'm starting to think it was a case of a big company pushing the little guys around. Yanmar maybe never intended to win in court, just put together some legal documents, serve papers to the dealers, and bully them into doing something else. Something stinks about this whole thing, i.e. "If you comply with our demands, we'd be happy to make you an authorized Yanmar dealer." Not sure anyone can fight them alone, we may never see a real result from this whole thing.

 

[HoyeTractor]

Hi Everyone! I just thought I'd post an update here since there seems to be a lot of interest again. I don't want to really get into the details of what went down but... we were able to reach an agreement with Yanmar. We are still here and not going anywhere. We took our legal flogging, spent truckloads of cash on legal fees, and are business as usual again.

 

[California]

Congratulations!!!!

That is very good news.

 

[Andy in Gap]

That is good news! I have a domestic model, but will continue to use Hoye for parts.

 

[Car Doc]

Great news Aaron thanks for the update glad you are still in business! :thumbsup:

 

[HoyeTractor]

We really appreciate it! We are very lucky to be involved in an industry that has such great customers. Again... thank you and we certainly appreciate your business!

 

[clemsonfor]

wow glad to hear from you Aaron. Hate that you got caught up in this thing and had to spend hard earned case on some stupid lawsuit for the right to STAY in business LEGALLY selling parts?

 

[kenmac]

Good news ! :thumbsup: Glad to see you just didn't roll over for them like they probably wanted/thought you guys to do