Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
John Deere reducing dealerships
- Thread starter Will 1594
- Start date
- Location
- E Yorks
Would suggest there's more to this than meets the eye. How come someone else knew last week and yet the dealer principle allegedly didn't this can happen but not usually as spectacularly as this. Also usually a manufacturer gives notice not closes a wholegood sales account with immediate effect unless something is going on in the background. Because this sort of thing isn't in the manufacturers favour in the short term and is difficult to manage from a PR point of view if there isn't a fall back plan in place in the background in which case something has been brewing for abit
Tommcfoster
Member
I only met him once at the Cornwall show and chatted with him and that was enough. I don’t like dealers slating other dealers and that is what I found. Sell your product too me, don’t slam the competition.
Dieselross
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- Location
- South west
I would not post it on the Forum unless I knew what was going on.....
So all my facts were correct.
DR
Beetlejuice
Member
Fact... C
whats your next prediction then?
Dieselross
Member
- Location
- South west
That Elvis is actually alive.. Prefers jam 1st on scones & works in a chips shop near Camborne.
DR
I always said that that Elvis was some boy 
- Location
- Down south
Couldn’t you predict the euro lottery results instead and only share them With me, I’d be able to buy a fendt then
Dieselross
Member
- Location
- South west
I apologise you were indeed correct. It was a bit silly of A G Prowse to post on facebook that they are still Krone dealers then a few days later say they've lost it.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Aye but green tractors are going like snow off a dyke in their territory, Valtra are doing them some harm and case .
Going from 5 miles to 21, annoying!35miles.... just on the limits of how far I’d go to stay green.... and it would certainly put them at a far higher chance on loosing out on a sale vs the dealers that are within 10-14 miles. Service would need to be excellent with sensible call out rates.
Depend which side of nairn it’s on as that can add 20 minutes in traffic alone. If they don’t have enough mechanics they will struggle servicing fochabers to wick.
Could be half hour each way on a trip, £60 for travel alone! Better be good at their job.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Is their a jd main dealer on Orkney and Shetland ?
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Mlm in orkney.
Swap your combine for a yellow 1 and you will only have to travel 4 miles to the dealer, your driver would love it
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- Location
- Cheltenham
Lots of speculation about the SW Penninsula developments and views therein. Truth is a very small number of people know the “real” facts. There is going to be much more of this in the coming months and years so this is just the tip of the iceberg but one thing is for sure, no one is immune from change. One fact I recall from a marketing degree years ago was “when everything is going well in business, something somewhere is starting to go wrong”. The problem is this is normally out of your control unless you employ a “disaster policy” namely “what’s my plan if an external force changes my direction”? I think Richard Branson dubbed this “tying the downside up”!! Good advice!
I think to be fair to prowse he thought at the time he still had it !!!
- Location
- Devon
Not really.
I think that his post set the record straight from his point of view and forced someone else to 'play their hand'.
I thought at the time that to omit any reference to the future was very telling.
He probably thought Krone would be a bit like Kuhn & have 3 dealers down the A30 all within 20 miles.