New Deere Dealer

[Part Time Pete]

We've had a local Deere dealer for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid it was Lane Way - then 15 or 20 years ago (maybe more - I'm getting old) it was bought out by a larger local dealer - now I see it's changed to SN partners, which has 37 locations in Missouri, Illinois and NY. They've always been good to deal with, so we'll see if anything changes

 

[NY 986]

We've had a local Deere dealer for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid it was Lane Way - then 15 or 20 years ago (maybe more - I'm getting old) it was bought out by a larger local dealer - now I see it's changed to SN partners, which has 37 locations in Missouri, Illinois and NY. They've always been good to deal with, so we'll see if anything changes

The JD location in Hall, NY has had 6 different owners since I was a young boy during the late 1960's but is still there for sales, parts, and service. As time goes forward it most likely have a different owner yet again but there is nothing I can do about it. Have not lost a JD store location around here since the mid-1960's. Mom and pop dealers regardless of the brand are very few around here these days.

 

[peteL]

The JD location in Hall, NY has had 6 different owners since I was a young boy during the late 1960's but is still there for sales, parts, and service. As time goes forward it most likely have a different owner yet again but there is nothing I can do about it. Have not lost a JD store location around here since the mid-1960's. Mom and pop dealers regardless of the brand are very few around here these days.

We've had a local Deere dealer for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid it was Lane Way - then 15 or 20 years ago (maybe more - I'm getting old) it was bought out by a larger local dealer - now I see it's changed to SN partners, which has 37 locations in Missouri, Illinois and NY. They've always been good to deal with, so we'll see if anything changes

I grew up in Sidney area. I asked a old timer why John Deere tractors dominated the locality. I was told there were dealers located in Unadilla and Trout Creek. I remember visiting the Unadilla dealer with my grandfather. The Unadilla post office was built on it's location. A JD dealer was located on Route 7 outside Afton in the early 80's. I went to Lane Way and was able to obtain new rear wheels for the pedal tractor we road as kids. They had them in stock no waiting.

 

[john in la]

I went to my local Deere place this morning.
Boy I hate dealing with them people but they own every Deere place withing driving distance.
Anyway Deere is having a sale on turf and utility parts so I get my list together and stop at the store while I am in town.
Long story short they refused to give me the discount said it was for online orders only so I left the parts sitting on the counter and walked out.
Funny part is the order is over $50.
So I come home and ordered the parts online and got the discount.
Now the dealer not only has to sell to me at the discount price they have to pay to ship the items to me because shipping is free for orders over $50.

 

[300jk]

I went to my local Deere place this morning.
Boy I hate dealing with them people but they own every Deere place withing driving distance.
Anyway Deere is having a sale on turf and utility parts so I get my list together and stop at the store while I am in town.
Long story short they refused to give me the discount said it was for online orders only so I left the parts sitting on the counter and walked out.
Funny part is the order is over $50.
So I come home and ordered the parts online and got the discount.
Now the dealer not only has to sell to me at the discount price they have to pay to ship the items to me because shipping is free for orders over $50.

John I’ve seen that a bunch of times. Not just JD. I guess they just don’t see it. Too bad because some local dealers do have good parts guys. It’s a shame how some run their business.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

I don’t buy John Deere mostly because anytime I went into one of their dealerships, I was taken for as a penniless hobo. They didn’t want to talk to me, or take me seriously. So I went to either the Fird/New Holland or CaseIh dealers. Eventually the CaseIH dealer became a Kubota dealer. These other dealers couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful, and sold me a lot of new equipment over the decades. And the JD dealership was the closest, but their business culture was arrogant and clique like. They had their customers, and didn’t want any new ones.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I've had all the dealer not take me serious so I buy fro most local places like mom and dad at the farm or local grower and skip the dealers for most things. IH dealer has always been a bit arrogant over the years. I find it funny because his dad was a Moline dealer before being an IH dealer and now has both Case and Kubota on 2 different lots less than a mile apart . Local Ford dealer has been a NH Krause and Other short lines for many years and is now also a Mahindra dealer. probably the longest running one around here. Local deere dealer has been pretty good to me on parts and has actually bent over backwards a couple times to help me out.

 

[rustred]

I don’t buy John Deere mostly because anytime I went into one of their dealerships, I was taken for as a penniless hobo. They didn’t want to talk to me, or take me seriously. So I went to either the Fird/New Holland or CaseIh dealers. Eventually the CaseIH dealer became a Kubota dealer. These other dealers couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful, and sold me a lot of new equipment over the decades. And the JD dealership was the closest, but their business culture was arrogant and clique like. They had their customers, and didn’t want any new ones.

that reminds me of a story here years ago. there was a couple old brothers that went to town in their cow dirty grey strip overall's. they stopped at the deere dealer here and were pricing out a tractor and the salesman kinda snubbed them off. then the manager got wind of that and reamed the saleman out, saying they got more money than they know what to do with. i know they had a D, 720 gas, little crawler and a nice 830 that sat in the field for like 20 years till the son in law came and picked it up. i was even thinking to chase it down sometime. i think its on buying this 830 is when this happened .

 

[yessam]

The local Deere dealer got taken over years ago. The parts lady got fired two idiots that are there are useless . I even went in with a part # and they still could fine it. It's to the point that they only cater to the btos in the area.

 

[Texasmark]

I grew up in Sidney area. I asked a old timer why John Deere tractors dominated the locality. I was told there were dealers located in Unadilla and Trout Creek. I remember visiting the Unadilla dealer with my grandfather. The Unadilla post office was built on it's location. A JD dealer was located on Route 7 outside Afton in the early 80's. I went to Lane Way and was able to obtain new rear wheels for the pedal tractor we road as kids. They had them in stock no waiting.

JD got its jump back when "Cotton was King", 1960's give and take, when the owner of he independent dealership wouldn't sit behind his desk all day fiddling with paper work. He would be out in the fields talking "eyeball to eyeball" with the farmers finding out what they needed and getting it to them. IH had a good showing too but management wasn't what it should have been and it slowly disappeared while the last time I was in McKinney, on US 75, the green was still there, the center of a widespread dealership across N and E Tx.....so I read.

 

[Texasmark]

Here we go again....another of my boring stories:

Back when I was a JD guy I needed a radiator cap for my 4020 and some other parts, dealer stocked. The cap showed up on the counter first and as usual, I pull the parts I buy out of the container and ensure that they are what I thought I ordered. The clerk put the box on the counter and went off to chase more parts.

I opened the box and lo and lo and behold there sat a RED radiator cap. Salesman gets back to the counter and I told him "I not putting a RED cap on my GREEN tractor.......He pointed to a rack of I&T manuals and he said have a look: The I&T manual on that series of tractor had a picture of a 3020 with a red cap on the radiator which was some distance from the front of the tractor.....on that tractor, where a lot of designs have the radiator up front that series has the fuel tank up front. Since one refuels more often than checks the radiator, and the locations have been switched, JD decided (apparently) to help to prevent farmer's from GASSING (DIESELING) UP THEIR RADIATORS. I rested my case.

 

[jdeere562]

I grew up in Exira, IA. in the 1960's. There was an old man that lived just outside the city. He looked like a homeless bum.
But I guess he had lot's of money. People just called him Red Carl because of his hair.

Actually his name was Red Carl (Hansen). There was also a Black Carl. Stories were that Red Carl went into buy a Ford one time and they wouldn’t sell it to him so he left and came back and announced he had bought the building. I have seen pics in the paper back then, but can't locate the old article. Showed him standing in the show floor of that Ford car dealership that he just bought.

 

[504]

Sydenstricker & Nobe have been fine for me. I go by several dealers every week and they always check to see if any one else has my parts if they don’t. Two of my dealers just sold out to a group called Heritage ( new name in Il)