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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 7386615" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>I find myself wondering how, why and whose fault it is that machinery costs have become so ridiculously high:</p><p></p><p>Us Farmers:</p><p>What is our actual excuse/reason for wanting it?</p><p>Do we really need it?</p><p>Is the spec what we need or way beyond what we need rather than what we want?</p><p>How have/did subsidies influence our buying strategy?</p><p>Keeping up with the Jones's/wanting to impress our peers?</p><p></p><p>The Dealer:</p><p>Clever Salesmanship?</p><p>0% finance deal availability? (There is no such things 0% in reality - the Capital cost still has to be paid/accounted for).</p><p>Finance and Warranty sales by dealers earn them a lot of extra money. Often more than the actual product does?</p><p></p><p>The Manufacturer:</p><p>Trying to outcompete the competition with better R&D, more gadgetry that is nice but mostly unnecessary?</p><p>Influence upon the dealer?</p><p>Forcing Dealers to re-tool every time a new product comes on stream?</p><p>Bigger and bigger Flagship machines?</p><p>The removal of/less pushing of basic machine ranges form certain Countries like the UK</p><p></p><p></p><p>The answer is that it is just a huge and manipulative Rat-Race!</p><p>Eventually something has to give!</p><p>Or we become old and wise enough to stop wanting to buy/have it!</p><p></p><p></p><p>What actual raising of the spec has actually been truly worth it and/or financially justifiable?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 7386615, member: 44728"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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