Anyone known of an issues with JR Firby?

[Drillman]

I bought an auld machine earlier in the year it was priced not so badly either.

when I got it home I realised it had a fairly big fault

I started a thread on here about it which several folks may remember.

Dealers name was never mentioned and in the end we decided the best thing to do was crack on and sort it ourselves.

8 months later it’s running well

End of day the machine I bought wasn’t in it first flush of youth and I really should have been a bit more thorough in the test drive dept

I will know for next time!

 

[icanshootwell]

This thread is a great example of why I've started buying stuff privately, or on an as-is basis. Why pay a dealer mark up for something that's "been through the workshop", when you can get the same machine on the private market for xx% less. If you can't trust the dealer to put the problem right at their own expense, what are they even there for?

If this Furby man was any sort of dealer, he'd pick the machine up, sort it out and drop it back at his own cost. So what if he takes a hit on the deal? You win some, you lose some. He's sold a "working" machine, it doesn't work (in a pretty important way), take it away, fix it, get the customer going. Oh that's right, it's not really about the customer though is it? It's about screwing every last dollar out of them.

I need a cup of tea and a lie down.

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The hard bit is finding the private sales.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I think his reply to the offer he wants it collecting and returning free of charge to

Like offering a spoilt kid a chocolate ..... but he wants the whole box full

 

[Fendt516profi]

Like offering a spoilt kid a chocolate ..... but he wants the whole box full

Yes I get that impression

I didn’t say it was. He’s offered to sort it if I take it in but it’ll cost more to get it him than it would to split it on site. Given that I asked numerous times that the PTO was in good working order, i’m a little disappointed given the reputation I had heard of them and the strong price for the tractor.

It doesn't mean it's the right way to go about it though, right? If I bought a new machine and they expected me to drop it back to the dealer for a warranty issue, I'd drive it right through their showroom covered in sh!t.

 

[roscoe erf]

The best was the dead horse thread. . That was a january i think though. Still left here wondering

I don't know the pan mixer thread was a close runner

 

[mtx.jag]

I don't know the pan mixer thread was a close runner

With its broken sheer pin

 

[bobk]

I've never bought a tractor without a fault , hardly any dealer stepped up , so fok em , get it cheap to allow for the repairs .

 

[betweenthelines]

You have more rights in law when you buy from a dealer, rather than privately.

Dealers will happily tell you this is why their prices are higher that buying privately.

Then when you have a problem with something you've just bought, it's "sold as seen" "what do you expect for that price?" and other excuses. they can't have it both ways.

If the machine is older, the dealer needs to realise it is more likely to have a problem, so he should check it properly or accept the consequences.

Well know dealer in Devon sells old tractors but will always take it back or exchange it if customer isn't 100% happy.

 

[smcapstick]

You have more rights in law when you buy from a dealer, rather than privately.

Dealers will happily tell you this is why their prices are higher that buying privately.

Then when you have a problem with something you've just bought, it's "sold as seen" "what do you expect for that price?" and other excuses. they can't have it both ways.

If the machine is older, the dealer needs to realise it is more likely to have a problem, so he should check it properly or accept the consequences.

Well know dealer in Devon sells old tractors but will always take it back or exchange it if customer isn't 100% happy.

That's what I do. Nobody can argue with it.

 

[grainboy]

Yes agree with above,
But,
sold a drum mower to someone very local, he was desperate, somehow he managed to finish his 15 odd acres with it, but then he complained it was knackered,
Been local, I did the right thing and took it back,

 

[Spud]

Yes agree with above,
But,
sold a drum mower to someone very local, he was desperate, somehow he managed to finish his 15 odd acres with it, but then he complained it was knackered,
Been local, I did the right thing and took it back,

Did you then send him a bill for the hire of the mower to cut his grass?

 

[Spud]

It doesn't mean it's the right way to go about it though, right? If I bought a new machine and they expected me to drop it back to the dealer for a warranty issue, I'd drive it right through their showroom covered in sh!t.

And does having a paddy like that do any good in the long term? No. Grow up.

 

[serf]

ask me how I know that one.

How do you know that .......

 

[dave mountain]

You have more rights in law when you buy from a dealer, rather than privately.

Dealers will happily tell you this is why their prices are higher that buying privately.

Then when you have a problem with something you've just bought, it's "sold as seen" "what do you expect for that price?" and other excuses. they can't have it both ways.

If the machine is older, the dealer needs to realise it is more likely to have a problem, so he should check it properly or accept the consequences.

Well know dealer in Devon sells old tractors but will always take it back or exchange it if customer isn't 100% happy.

near East anstey or you thinking of somebody else?

 

[Spud]

‘Been through the workshop’

Who has ever actually seen that stated on a real (by ‘real’, I mean registered with Companies House and HMRC for Corporation Tax and VAT - you know, a real professional agricultural machinery dealer) advert for a machine?

I have only ever seen that written on weekend dealer’s ads. The boys that work card-in for somebody else during the week and hawk stuff on FB marketplace on the weekend.
If you buy off those, you're asking for trouble. Take a real dealer to court with a problem, the consumer will win. Sale Of Goods Act, consumer rights etc. are all in the punter’s favour and rightly so - they must be protected.
If you buy off a weekender you pay the dealer’s premium but have none of the protection.

It’s no different than paying some dole-rat a bit of cash to do your plastering. It may be a fraction cheaper… but if it all goes wrong, you’re on your own.

Not massively relevant to the actual thread, I know. I’m just referring to those tarring all dealers with the same brush.

I bought a machine from a dealer many years ago that had 'been through the workshop'
Said workshop must of had two doors - the machine can't of been stopped long while it was in there!

 

[grainboy]

Did you then send him a bill for the hire of the mower to cut his grass?

As I said, Very local,
sometimes best to take it, and smile
There’s always another day,

 

[Spud]

As I said, Very local,
sometimes best to take it, and smile
There’s always another day,

Absolutely

 

[smcapstick]

Yes agree with above,
But,
sold a drum mower to someone very local, he was desperate, somehow he managed to finish his 15 odd acres with it, but then he complained it was knackered,
Been local, I did the right thing and took it back,

I had one of those. A drum mower, too! 'It just won't cut right...' he said.

Save his number, never give him any grace again.

 

[lloyd]

That looks like a very tidy 995 finding another
in that physical condition would be hard.

 

[davidroberts30]

With its broken sheer pin

The trust gaybob tine