Jeffersonville, OH | ks8780 - 8/1/2024 11:08
Yes thats probably the deal. It would be nice to get stuff thru the local 5 mile away "dealer" than the 40 mile one. The local dealer was a CNH store and also Hesston for years and years for hay equipment. It makes no difference now as they let the Agco side go a few years ago anyway.
Yeah, if the local guys were only Hesston, those were the first to go years ago...I still doubt AGCO "pulled" it, but likely made it hard to do business with themselves for that dealer. They didn't like those single line stores...and in most cases, those stores were doing more damage than good.
Now, if that dealer in Kansas actually had done a lot with Hesston, it probably wasn't doing damage, but it wasn't helping AGCO enough to leave it alone too. There have always been some cases of that, and sometimes it was a tough call for everyone involved.
We saw the same things around here...but in most cases they were definitely damaging to AGCO, and even though people had to go a few more miles to get to us, we had everything they needed once they got here...most of the time.
There's no magic bullet...and I get it, it's not great in a lot of cases for the customers...but I still don't know that I would want a crappy dealer every 20 miles over a good one every 50 miles?
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