- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I find myself wondering how, why and whose fault it is that machinery costs have become so ridiculously high:
Us Farmers:
What is our actual excuse/reason for wanting it?
Do we really need it?
Is the spec what we need or way beyond what we need rather than what we want?
How have/did subsidies influence our buying strategy?
Keeping up with the Jones's/wanting to impress our peers?
The Dealer:
Clever Salesmanship?
0% finance deal availability? (There is no such things 0% in reality - the Capital cost still has to be paid/accounted for).
Finance and Warranty sales by dealers earn them a lot of extra money. Often more than the actual product does?
The Manufacturer:
Trying to outcompete the competition with better R&D, more gadgetry that is nice but mostly unnecessary?
Influence upon the dealer?
Forcing Dealers to re-tool every time a new product comes on stream?
Bigger and bigger Flagship machines?
The removal of/less pushing of basic machine ranges form certain Countries like the UK
The answer is that it is just a huge and manipulative Rat-Race!
Eventually something has to give!
Or we become old and wise enough to stop wanting to buy/have it!
What actual raising of the spec has actually been truly worth it and/or financially justifiable?
Us Farmers:
What is our actual excuse/reason for wanting it?
Do we really need it?
Is the spec what we need or way beyond what we need rather than what we want?
How have/did subsidies influence our buying strategy?
Keeping up with the Jones's/wanting to impress our peers?
The Dealer:
Clever Salesmanship?
0% finance deal availability? (There is no such things 0% in reality - the Capital cost still has to be paid/accounted for).
Finance and Warranty sales by dealers earn them a lot of extra money. Often more than the actual product does?
The Manufacturer:
Trying to outcompete the competition with better R&D, more gadgetry that is nice but mostly unnecessary?
Influence upon the dealer?
Forcing Dealers to re-tool every time a new product comes on stream?
Bigger and bigger Flagship machines?
The removal of/less pushing of basic machine ranges form certain Countries like the UK
The answer is that it is just a huge and manipulative Rat-Race!
Eventually something has to give!
Or we become old and wise enough to stop wanting to buy/have it!
What actual raising of the spec has actually been truly worth it and/or financially justifiable?