Mr. Messick -- Again, you lolligag through a site chocked full of information with people tending to a serious issue. You've failed to heed previous recommendations: tread lightly and thoroughly read backdated posts.
Case1570 has supplied a firm foundation... and I'll provide some window dressing.
Textron floor plans a number of lines that we sell, heck take any of the small companies in this business and its likley that they are involved as a creditor.
Given their "rap sheet," that is a particularly disturbing thought.
I'll make my statement about this again.... there sure is alot of finger pointing at Textron, but basically nothing that's been posted on why this is their fault?
I'll make this painstakingly easy for you and anyone else who purports themself as a newcomer. My Rx is some reading. If you read all at
my site and
this article, you'll have plenty of an understanding.
Should you fail to get it after the aforementioned, there is no hope for you.
They are a creditor, that's what they do.
Right. And Guido and Luca make people sleep with the fishes -- that's what *they* do.... so that makes it OK, right?
Moreover, then why don't we hear about near legbreaking efforts by Agricredit, NAEDAs credit line, Wells Fargo or others?
One dealer attested that even a GE territory mgr. had the courtesy to say he'd be "better served not to accept shipments" when a different tractor line was going to h*ll in a handbasket.
As far as I can see its Farmtrac that ran themselves into the ground and the Indians ran away with the money...?
Score one for the man from PA -- partly. FNA *execs* ran it into the ground, not its retailers. Dealers are still giving rearend-busting good service to their customers.
Its not the banks responsibility to see that you pay your mortgage rather than buying a porsche, no more than its Textrons job to see that Farmtrac was well managed.
Very silly you... you're already not liked here... and to make a preposterous statement like that tells me you don't know the culture of folks who've taken on Farmtrac retailerships.
They are **far** from the kinda folks you portray them to be. Bibb overhauls aren't made by Hilfiger, workboots aren't made by Bruno Mali and Porche doesn't build the blue dirt-grindin' rigs these folks drive and sell, pal. FNA dealers are people of the earth. They earn their keep -- and do it daily -- with their bare hands.
If the goal here is to raise concern about whats happened you guys need to be more black and white with what Textron has done wrong here. Whats been posted here sure does not make much of a case for anything.
Read the links above. If that's not enough, then I'll save you a seat at the courthouse. Like my grassroots bretheren, I'll be wearing dungarees and sneering toward the Evil Empire Financial Corp.
--blueliner
