Good deal on a BX23

[CARNEYM]

2005 Kubota BX23 Farm Equipment for sale at USFarmer.com

Don't know if this is still available, but ran across this USFARMER.COM. It looks like a good deal for someone.

 

[kbotaman]

Seems to fall in the category of too good to be true so it probably isn't.

Some of the comments don't fit, like it has been stored in a heated garage, do you need a heated garage in Arlington, TX ? Plowed the driveway I didn't realize Arlington got that much snow. Also name on add does not match the name of the registered buyer of the s/n listed in the add.

Factor in the price being thousands of dollars less than the actual value of the machine and off goes the scam alarm on my computer.

Just my opinion.

 

[lp333]

... don't know if this is still available...

Why not give RUSS a call and see if he answers?

 

[kbotaman]

Called the number, got an voice mail box, seemed to be a cell phone, instructed to leave a message. I might try back later and see if I actually get someone to answer.

 

[CARNEYM]

You never know. I just passed it along. I could care less if anyone checked it out or not.

 

[Goin Camping]

It's a SCAM, guaranteed. I saw that BX for sale about 3 months ago, think it was on ebay. If memory serves it was in the Chicago area.

 

[hench861]

it looks like the same pic that has been on craigslist

 

[LonghornSam]

It snows in Arlington just about every 5 years or so. Plowing not a priority there.

 

[bandit67]

Yeah, but what doesn't make sense is the ad says he will only sell face to face. How do you pull a scam only dealing face to face?

Unless it's a new scam where the scammers set a slightly higher price, but still a darn good deal, claim they'll only sell face to face, then hope some sucker calls and begs & pleads to give it up (since it's such a bargain) without meeting, and then cashes the legitimate check that the sucker mails them and the sucker never gets a tractor ?

 

[lp333]

...Yeah, but what doesn't make sense is the ad says he will only sell face to face. How do you pull a scam only dealing face to face? ...

Perhaps a mischieveous scammer might enjoy luring a naive would-be buyer to a false address?

 

[MrJimi]

I'm wondering just how much a tractor like this should go for, any idea?
Jim

 

[curtisfarmer]

How do these scams work? Obviously the tractor is underpriced, do people pay with cash or check and then don't get the tractor? Is it an upsell? I am confused on how people would fall for these scams.

If it smells like cheese.....it usually is.

 

[MrJimi]

I found what I wanted to ask
BX23 For Sale at TractorHouse.com
and there is a slight possibility that it could be true?
Jim

 

[LBrown59]

== L B ==. SAYS:
If the tractor is as good as it looks I'll take 2 of them of them if the deal's legitimate.

 

[Tom_H]

I'm wondering just how much a tractor like this should go for, any idea?
Jim

I'm thinking the TLB would've been about $15k and the MMM $2300, for a total of $17,300 before tax. Take about $10/hr. depreciation and that leaves $16,300 as a high end price. If it were mine to sell, I think I'd ask at least $14k. The gunpoint scenario seems a distinct possibility here to me. I imagine the buyer would get strung into a cascading series of events where the plan changes over and over with supposed "emergencies" cropping up, and winds up at the end of some long rural road in the middle of nowhere.

 

[RonR]

I wouldn't think you would find many tractor deals where the transaction would be $5K or more in CASH. I wouldn't do that buying for sure.

When I buy or sell something in the <$1K range, cash speaks. Over that, I want a bank check, and you now have to make sure those are real.

ron

 

[rpoage]

I wouldn't think you would find many tractor deals where the transaction would be $5K or more in CASH. I wouldn't do that buying for sure.

When I buy or sell something in the <$1K range, cash speaks. Over that, I want a bank check, and you now have to make sure those are real.
ron

If you bring cash you stand a chance of making the evening news or maybe the obits. If you bring a bank check no seller in his right mind would accept it on face value as the proliferation of high end color printer makes forging those child's play. The Seller would request that the payment will have to clear and then you have to wonder if you will get the tractor when that clears. It's ugly out there, the only thing you're likely going to get if you get ripped off is sympathy. For my money I go to the place with the big orange or green signs. As a personal rule I never buy anthing of greater value on EBay than I'm willing to loose. Which for me is not much.