Combines Would you give the competiton the second chanceIJIJ

That is the problem with the Big three that is left. They thank that we have to have them,but I think they have to have us.I would think whatever color it is they would do what ever it takes to make there customers happy,expecially if they have crossed the color barrier. IG

This is what really scares me. As you said "That is the the problem with the Big three that are left." One would think that they might learn a lesson from the other big three, who also watched the stock price more than the production line. look where that got the other big three, now Japanese companies have the larger market shares in the auto industry. To this time, I have bee amazed that the Japanese have not ventured into the Ag market. Kubota is starting to make some inroads with the smaller tractors, just like Toyota did with the small pickups and small cars. And now Honda, NIssan and others are starting to venture into the Pickup market, suppose it will be a matter of a few years before we see a Kubota combineIJ

With our clutch in our 4WD tractor, it wouldn't have taken much for Deere to keep us as happy customers. It went out at 1948 hours and the parts that went in to it were $ 3200.00 I asked Deere to pay for the parts or at least sell us the parts at their cost. They wouldn't do any thing for us. Now we don't buy their oil, filters, batteries or any thing else that we can buy somewhere else. They could have sold us the parts at their cost. It wouldn't have cost them any money, they just wouldn't have made any profit. The money that they would have given up would have soon been made back on the sale of those filters and stuff. Now they make nothing off of us and if we can afford to buy equipment which looks doughtful here in Canada we will be shopping elsewhere. And we likely wouldn't be making these posts that tell people what we think of John Deere junk. I told them that I have a big mouth and I would make sure I told every one what I thought. Now I can use the internet as well.