Posted by rexhellwig on March 24, 2011 at 17:09:41 from (138.210.242.203):
In Reply to: Dealer rant AGAIN posted by rrlund on March 24, 2011 at 12:05:23:
rrlund, I don't have much advice except for this. Always spend your dollars where they are appreciated.
Once upon a time, you knew you would get a fair shake at the local dealer. Why ? Because the two of you might serve together on the local school board. Or the parts man would teach your local Sunday school and maybe the shop foreman was your town's little league coach. We all knew, depended, and generally trusted in each other. These relationships were the backbone of small town America. Those days are gone and I'm afraid we will never see them again.
Just a few examples of the scale involved these days:
I helped a trainee diagnose a bad hydraulic pump on a 4955 this morning. In my "old geezer" way of thinking, this is a new tractor to me. {but it is really 20 years old} That pump costs 2800 bucks. Last job I finished was an engine blow-up in a large frame track tractor. I didn't spend a dime it didn't need and the bill was still over twenty grand. A week before that we had a problem with an electric fuel pump on a four year old row-crop tractor. That electric pump was over a thousand dollars.
A thousand dollars. A lot of money for us regular folks. Chump change in the eyes of today's economics.
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