Posted by oldtanker on November 14, 2019 at 13:31:59 from (66.228.255.203):
In Reply to: Brand loyalty posted by JohnV2000 on November 14, 2019 at 03:23:19:
I'm kinda the odd duck here. We moved to this rural area from the suburbs on NJ when I was 16. An I liked tractors. So working for various farmers taught me a lot. Now when we moved here in 1971 we had a Ford and JD dealer very close, 6-8 miles. AC was about 15. Case, IH, MM, Oliver all at least 25-25 and MF at 50. Now both the local JD and Ford dealers left a lot to be desired. The Ford guy Stan only wanted to sell cars and trucks. Ford, because of his location made him sell AG too. Well he didn't work very hard at that end of things. The JD was just out to make sales. Carried very little in parts and told more than one person that if a farmer needed something bad enough they would buy new......so they drove 25 miles and bought IH. Most of the area here was IH. Few AC's, one or 2 Olivers and MM's. But mostly IH. IN 74 I joined the Army. I wound up in Germany and in 78 was home on leave. The JD dealer had died. New dealer and man was this guy on top of things. I couldn't believe all the new JD equipment in the area!
So the big factor here was service after the sale. And them old tight wad farmers here in the early 70's were going to save a pile on gas and time buying local.
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