What did your dealer include?

[ZTMAN]

I am getting ready to purchase a new CK3510SE and was wondering what "free" things did your dealer include? I have a few things I want to see if I can work into the deal like adding hooks to the bucket, loaded tires and transporting the tractor for warranty work. I was just curious what other dealers have offered to sweeten the deal?

Our dealer, small local, welded on two bucket hooks, filled the tires and delivers and picks up for free(warranty work and scheduled service.) This small town dealer is not too far away from a very large dealer with multiple locations. Was about $2k cheaper and offered the extras, no arm twisting.
The larger dealer charged for filling the tires, and also charged by the hour, not miles, to pick up and deliver for warranty and scheduled service.

 

[Wagtail]

Well, my Salesman/Dealership sold me a less expensive (4105) tractor than the whiz-bang 3xxx series tractor that he could have to a naive newbie. The implements (front & back) were 'packaged' for cost savings. Delivery was free (2 hr. one way trip) and even the fuel tank was full. I also received the standard "free" ball-cap, plus a jacket! (they could have been switching to a new style & had a few left over... but still, a nice jacket that I still wear). A free 50 hr. service, conducted at my property, was included in the 'deal'.

The implements that didn't come when the 4105 was delivered were, again, delivered for 'free'. They left a ballast box, that I did not order, and when I queried it said that it was complementary.

My D110 was delivered 'free' and with a full tank of petrol.

 

[Will_C]

I have gotten bucket hooks, filters for the first service, loaded tires and hats with both of my tractors. I did pay $100 on the last tractor for the loaded tires, but it took 88 gallons of WW fluid-can't complain.
Will

 

[Topesrule]

I got all the fluids and filters for the first service and a hat. Delivery about 70 km's as well.

 

[oosik]

Paid for a set of keys and the dealer threw in the tractor with a back hoe. Pretty cool eh?

Aquamoose - you guys up in Deer Park are always getting good deals - ha, ha

 

[CMV]

Loaded rears and delivery about 15 min away were free. Welded on bucket hooks, installed hyd toplink at cost. Implements bought with it (tiller, box blade, bush hog) were at cost. Not that I asked or didn't trust him, but he showed me his invoices to prove the stuff I was getting at cost truly were.

And got a very good deal on the tractor as well. Quotes for same thing from competing, larger dealers were higher. Only a couple hundred $ to about $800, but he was the least expensive for just the tractor. Throw in the other stuff he did and probably $1500ish cheaper at least.

I actually posted a thread because I wasn't sure what was reasonable/customary to ask/receive for freebies. Results were huge variations from nothing to lots of stuff like filter set for 1st service, first maintenance, hats, t shirts, etc. Basically I asked for X,Y,& Z. Dealer came back with "this is what I can do" and I felt it was a very fair deal. So even though there is huge variation from one to the next what they give for free (or consider a standard delivery service), give at a discount, or give nothing, that has to get factored in with overall price. Dealer A wants $500 more for the tractor but is delivering, loading rears, and giving steep discount on some other things you are buying with it, he might be a lot less overall than Dealer B who is selling the tractor at a great discount but not cutting breaks on anything else you need.

 

[cphilip]

Floor mat, filled tires, AGM battery, delivery, pick up and return for the first service free. The First service was cost of fluids and filters only. Three hats.

 

[TheFarmerInAdell]

My dealer sold me a chainsaw at cost. That's the best I could get out of him.

 

[Shaneard]

My dealer sold me a chainsaw at cost. That's the best I could get out of him.

I had a friend who worked for a major dealer and he would sell me stuff at cost. I bought a stihl blower & weedeater from him. Turns out when his wife left him he started selling a lot of stuff at cost to a lot of people and forgot to pay his employer. It caught up with him and he lost his job & his house. I haven’t seen him in a while. Was talking to one of his old coworkers the other day and he ask me about the blower I was using. I said I paid for it, I can’t help he didn’t.

 

[Mike Madison]

My Kubota dealer gave me filled tires, that's it. No delivery (300+ miles). No front weights (I bought 7 of them off Craigslist for $20 each). No Hat. But the price was about $3600 below other bids, so I was happy.