Prices coming down?

[egbert]

Interestingly I received an email invitation to your Lanson gig today. If I make it we can share a dram and you can laugh at my watch
Might have to dig out the old Sekonda for that evening

crikey...lessons learned long ago....don't wear anything valuable to Lanson.......you'll never get out of town alive!

 

[Common sense guy]

RRP is a lot more than the price you pay. For example a tractor you would pay 100k for will have a RRP of 160k in some cases that would give you finance on 80k of the 100 or 80% They do it on purpose to help in this respect
I can give you a number of a company who does keen rates of finance on ag plant and commercial gear. They will do 100% or near enough

Rural Finance

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Rural Finance

Are they cheap?

 

[Steve welder]

What's this worth

 

[nick...]

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Depends on usage I’d imagine.
nick...

 

[Moors Lad]

What's this worth

Is that yours or the vicars...?

 

[Limcrazy]

The watch?????

 

[mx110]

anyone got a harrison lesser watch tucked away?

 

[Common sense guy]

Are they cheap?

Define cheap! They tailor finance to business needs and ability to make payments.
you need to ask them to find this out.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Define cheap!

They tailor finance to business needs and ability to make payments.
you need to ask them to find this out.

Competitive rates, the rest is just fluff

 

[Limcrazy]

Doesn't look like there's much fluff !!!!

 

[Common sense guy]

You are not alone! The Germans are revolting (we’ll be knew that anyway)
Similar issues to hear, politicians not communicating and understanding real life farmers issues.
At least they are making their point known…..

Farmers blockade Berlin with tractors in subsidy row - BBC News

The government is grappling with a budget crisis after a court ruled its 2024 budget was illegal.

www.bbc.com

 

[Charlie Flindt]

No I’m not up with the great and the good. If you are speaking there you have a tough gig to follow. They had Charlie Flindt last year and he was VERY well received.
I have a feeling I may have inadvertently mentioned your name to someone there after hearing you at Dawlish

The secret is to let them all get very drunk before starting one's speech.......It was one hell of an evening.

 

[Whitewalker]

Does it look like second hand cars are starting to drop in value?

 

[Lincsman]

Does it look like second hand cars are starting to drop in value?

Some but not all;

Supercar dealer pledges to pay £100k premium for Ferrari Purosangue – Car Dealer Magazine

Ferrari’s luxurious first off-roader, the Purosangue, is currently commanding premiums of more than £100,000 over list price. Supercar dealer Tom Hartley

cardealermagazine.us16.list-manage.com

But Cinch will soon be out of business.

 

[warksfarmer]

Got a tenant who bought a Merc evito van in 2020. Cost him £45,250 + vat. At the time it was sold to him with a 280 mile range. In reality it’s never done any more than 90 miles before it needs charging. In the winter with lights and heater on with weight in it, it has been down at 55 mile range. He’s a plumber and luckily had a second van (diesel) which he’s had to use for majority of his work the last 3 years.
The electric van clocked just 15k miles in 3 years and he could not sell it privately and ended up selling it to the trade at £12,500 + vat. Real life example . However the trader still has it now unsold after 6 months ……

 

[Sharpy]

Got a tenant who bought a Merc evito van in 2020. Cost him £45,250 + vat. At the time it was sold to him with a 280 mile range. In reality it’s never done any more than 90 miles before it needs charging. In the winter with lights and heater on with weight in it, it has been down at 55 mile range. He’s a plumber and luckily had a second van (diesel) which he’s had to use for majority of his work the last 3 years.
The electric van clocked just 15k miles in 3 years and he could not sell it privately and ended up selling it to the trade at £12,500 + vat. Real life example . However the trader still has it now unfold after 6 months ……

A Firm I do a lot for has practically all electric vans and dropside pickups, the vans are Renault kangoo sized things, the dropsides are big transit sized.
The vans need charged at their destination 20 miles away to be sure of getting back to base!

 

[holywell farmer]

Don't higher interest rates make things more expensive?

 

[Fendtbro]

Why not? I remember as a child mf were producing the 3000 series and latterly the 61 series, ford had sle and range command. People talked about all this electronics and how it would be in the scrap yard in a few years blah blah blah, sure still plenty of them still working yet

I don't mind electronics on a tractor but they must have a manual override.. I consider them a handy luxury but hate beholding to them. Totally unacceptable that the computer says no and work grinds to a halt. The Fendt here has overide systems for it's electronic functions which get used from time to time and it has never failed to complete a job or had a dealer to work on it yet but the newer stuff every glitch and the day is shot.. Total nonsense!

 

[Common sense guy]

Good Ad from the USA, need more of this in the UK, perhaps from the likes of NFU reaching out to general public?

LeRae Eckes

This should be a commercial on every channel. Thank a farmer. ❤️ Ag with Emma

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