Hats Off To Kubota

[troutsqueezer]

Every time I go into my dealer and spend a little money, I get a free hat. Keeps me going back. :thumbsup:

 

[smstonypoint]

Every time I go into my dealer and spend a little money, I get a free hat. Keeps me going back. :thumbsup:

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TNSTAAFH. There's no such thing as a free hat.

Steve

 

[troutsqueezer]

TNSTAAFH. There's no such thing as a free hat.

Steve

Of course, in a manner of speaking, you are correct. However, the rim and tire I bought for my tractor today was $220 with or without the hat.

 

[Ivan49]

I got 2but as I told my wife not bad for 11000 each

 

[Wagtail]

TNSTAAFH. There's no such thing as a free hat.

Steve

Yep. They're nice and all that but it's a marketing ploy (COLLECT THE WHOLE SET!) just like a fast food chain offering 'free' drinking glasses. You get so many of them that you hand'em out to friends & family = brand name "X" gets into the public eye.

Whenever I completed a JD customer satisfaction survey, my dealer would send me a 'thank you gift', which was a spectacle cleaning cloth (with their business credentials on it).

I've got 15 of the things laying around here. :laughing: Mind you, a new hat would've been nice on occasion.

 

[k0ua]

Kubota is not the only ones that do it!

 

[KevT]

I walked into the dealer and asked for a hat and he told me I had to get a tractor. So I figure I paid $18,000 for the hat and the tractor was free.

 

[Ivan49]

Several years ago I bought a bull dozer. The dealer gave me a hat and JD sent me a jacket. That jacket was the ugliest thing you ever saw. I figured they got them in and nobody would buy one so they gave them away

 

[Wagtail]

Several years ago I bought a bull dozer. The dealer gave me a hat and JD sent me a jacket. That jacket was the ugliest thing you ever saw. I figured they got them in and nobody would buy one so they gave them away

Same thing happened when I bought my 4105, the dealership's cap was a standard inclusion but the salesman 'wrangled' a very nice bomber-style jacket with subtle JD and dealership embroidery.

 

[LiveRoll]

I generally shame my local Kubota dealer into a hat, by wearing their competitions hat in, although I think I have spent enough money there, they should keep me in hats forever......

Cheers

Roger