Chandlers

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
Did chandlers start as a 1 man owner 1 depot dealer or is it a company created from a few buyouts?
I was at school with the Caunt children. They took over the shop in Grantham and the fuel business. I doubt they'd have had the wherewithal to make Chandler's as big as it is today. They weren't rocket scientists.
 

Rookie

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincs / Notts
I was at school with the Caunt children. They took over the shop in Grantham and the fuel business. I doubt they'd have had the wherewithal to make Chandler's as big as it is today. They weren't rocket scientists.
We dealt with Nic for fuel.
Howard and Gavin Pell seemed to have grown Chandlers into a big concern now. Got to know Gavin as he was our rep at the Lincoln branch when he first got involved after uni. Always chatty and pleasant.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
We dealt with Nic for fuel.
Howard and Gavin Pell seemed to have grown Chandlers into a big concern now. Got to know Gavin as he was our rep at the Lincoln branch when he first got involved after uni. Always chatty and pleasant.
I bought a couple of ex demo 3000 series from Gavin at Lincoln for Kenya.
Nick Caunt was in my year at school I wouldn't have remembered his name they were always called Gyp because apparently they looked like Gypsies.
 

Alistair Nelson

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Mixed Farmer
Location
E Yorks
Look at gm Stephenson, parrishe’s etc and the serious s/h boys they set there stall out to actually market these s/h tractors properly with decent photos and the tractors actually properly prepared. Hence they charge a premium and then actually achieve that premium.
 

KB6930

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Location
Borders
Look at gm Stephenson, parrishe’s etc and the serious s/h boys they set there stall out to actually market these s/h tractors properly with decent photos and the tractors actually properly prepared. Hence they charge a premium and then actually achieve that premium.
Looks can be deceptive tho and things can look better in photos . I viewed a tractor at one of the dealers mentioned in your post and it was described as immaculate but when I viewed it I certainly wasn't immaculate and it wasn't purchased it's a good job I was passing on the way to something else or I'd have been pretty hacked off if I'd wasted a day going for a look and yes it did look good in the pics online.
 

Limcrazy

Member
Those photos aren't great, taken into light and all but tractor looks straight and probably better than the tarted up stuff.
I'd much rather see them before the adding value process starts.
Many dealers will tell you any bs without flinching and a good photo is only that.
 

Alistair Nelson

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
E Yorks
Looks can be deceptive tho and things can look better in photos . I viewed a tractor at one of the dealers mentioned in your post and it was described as immaculate but when I viewed it I certainly wasn't immaculate and it wasn't purchased it's a good job I was passing on the way to something else or I'd have been pretty hacked off if I'd wasted a day going for a look and yes it did look good in the pics online.
I agree entirely but what they are doing is making the most out of what they’ve got as opposed to the can’t be bothered approach some main franchise dealers with they’re secondhand stock as the thread started. It’s sometimes they can get abit ambitious in there marketing and promotion of a product.
 

daveydiesel1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Co antrim
Those photos aren't great, taken into light and all but tractor looks straight and probably better than the tarted up stuff.
I'd much rather see them before the adding value process starts.
Many dealers will tell you any bs without flinching and a good photo is only that.
Cant understand how the farmer has managed to either smash off or loss the 2 front spots without apparent roof damage
 

CPF

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Arable Farmer
I was at school with the Caunt children. They took over the shop in Grantham and the fuel business. I doubt they'd have had the wherewithal to make Chandler's as big as it is today. They weren't rocket scientists.
I now someone, who run mf for some years nothing wrong with mf
But for the ???
Have lost the supply for 180 new tractors to John Deere.
 

Flatland guy

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
Sorry just fancied a rant, what edjit takes the pictures of the used tractors they have for sale. Half times the tractor isnt washed and the pictures can be non descriptive as in side shots of the backend that you cant see how many spools it has or a pic of the cab inside took from the footstep that you cant really see anything
Was looking at this add this morning and seen same thing as iv noticed on lots of other adverts of thiers recently
I think it is company trying to sell/ get interest in a tractor the moment a new sale is agreed and are starting to look at moving on trade in, even thou they have not officially bought it. Therefore do not have right to clean/wash etc.
No .A farmer.
Whoever it is, that is going to hurt loosing a bread and butter customer like that. 180 tractors is probably a day or two production at the factory.
 

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