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

 

[troutsqueezer]

So, it's not like they lure me in there with the offer of a free hat. What I do is have them ring up my purchase and while they're doing that I grab a hat from the rack and plunk it on the counter. Without me saying a word, they always just throw in the hat for free. Now, they won't do that if I'm just buying a can of spray paint.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

After purchasing my around 3rd new Kubota I got a hat. The next time I bought another Kubota I said "That should be worth 2 hats" and got two hats. This continued on until I was up around 15 hats by adding one more to the last number at the last purchase. Now I just take any new style Kubota hats that Barlows has in stock which I think was 3 the last purchase. I wasn't even a hat guy until I started getting Kubota hats but almost always wear one now when I'm out in bright sunlight because my eyes are real light sensitive which is the main purpose for a billed hat with the bill facing the front of ones face instead of the back of their neck. I have a rag clipped on the back of my hat to shade the back of my neck since redneck is a very common remark used here in Ky.

 

[varmint]

Johnthomas, you should consider that there might be such a thing as too many hats? (Too many tractors, also?)

 

[Speedex]

My dealer just texted me a picture of a bunch of hats and said pick one after earlier in the week I walked in with a competitors hat on.

 

[FatTire]

No free hats at our dealer except when I bought the tractor. But I did recently score about 50 feet of used conveyor belt which I can use to protect our shop floor from tire chains, etc.

 

[Thomas]

Seems like every time I walk in the Kubota dealer they :shocked: and run.

 

[check]

Johnthomas, you should consider that there might be such a thing as too many hats? (Too many tractors, also?)

Forget trying to dissuade him, varmint. It's like an incurable dusease with JT. But it's a good one for us Kubota owners, because he can tell us about just about any Kubota tractor, because he's probably owned it at one time or another!

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I forgot to tell about my "special" Kubota hat. Steve Barlow asked me would I talk to some Kubota engineers from Japan a couple years ago. I agreed. He called one day with a date and approximate time. I went and talked with 5 of them and seemed very pleasant but not very talkative. May have been the Ky accent. They did have an English interpreter with them and did ask some questions. They gave me a Kubota hat that they said was only available in Japan and no I don't wear it when I mow or do landscaping work. I'm getting ready to do when I get off here. Having the Mennonites from Casey County, Ky build me a 24'x 48' pole barn structure and I've got to get it leveled and gravel delivered and spread before they come next month to do the build. I normally do my own building but age and bad shoulder has benched me for nailing jobs and I use a nail gun but to much pain for days/weeks after doing it so not worth doing it myself now.

 

[Paystar]

My dealer is good like that too. I get hat's, jacket, Kubota lanterns and flashlights, grease gun every time I go in there too. It makes you feel good about giving them more of my money.
Little gifts go a long way in bringing customers back.

 

[ultrarunner]

Only hat I have ever received were two very nice John Deere Hats when I bought my USED Caterpillar D3 from the local Deere Dealer...

Never asked for them... they just showed up in the mail with a note from my Sales Person...