/ Compact Tractor Dealers Ignore Two-thirds of Their Potential Website Customers, Industry Survey Shows
#151
HighTwelve
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2004
- Messages
- 62
- Location
- Southeastern Pennsylvania
- Tractor
- Kubota L3010, JD 325, JD LX255, JD355D, several restored 1939 to 1952 Ford N’s
I bought my L3010 with only 325 hours at the bankruptcy auction of a horseback riding academy in Tennessee. How did I find out about the auction? The answer is from this site when the bankruptcy receiver posted wanting to know what the tractor was worth. Score 1 for the internet. I flew down there, looked the tractor over, talked him into selling on the spot for cold cash and flew home. Getting the tractor to Pennsylvania was arranged through uShip.com at $1.00/loaded mile (this was 15 years ago). Score 2 for the internet.
I contacted the closest local dealer to order a folding ROPS. The fixed ROPS wouldn’t fit in my 1813 barn. I got a runaround that he couldn’t get one because a ROPS cannot be replaced, but to trade the L3010 in for a new Kubota. It sounded to me like BS and it was.
My next stop was a dealer 40 miles away. I had the replacement ROPS within two weeks so I bought a back blade, York rake and weight box from him too. I later had the tractor in to him to have problems in the glow plug circuit fixed and he commented that I had gotten a heck of a deal on the tractor. Since he treated me right, I have never bought filters, hydraulic oil and other Kubota stuff anywhere else.
I contacted the closest local dealer to order a folding ROPS. The fixed ROPS wouldn’t fit in my 1813 barn. I got a runaround that he couldn’t get one because a ROPS cannot be replaced, but to trade the L3010 in for a new Kubota. It sounded to me like BS and it was.
My next stop was a dealer 40 miles away. I had the replacement ROPS within two weeks so I bought a back blade, York rake and weight box from him too. I later had the tractor in to him to have problems in the glow plug circuit fixed and he commented that I had gotten a heck of a deal on the tractor. Since he treated me right, I have never bought filters, hydraulic oil and other Kubota stuff anywhere else.