[benk8680]

heres some pics after open house @ new store in gibson city, il . Ill post more if this works

 

[benk8680]

Guess i must have deleted the file with the R66 & the 575 versatile etc. the 4 used r gleaners were on the other lot. The shelves 4 the showroom didnt show up in time 4 the open house. the "harley" reference was in response to an earlier thread about agco needing dealers of a harley caliber image.

 

[madsnake]

If only a Agco dealer could sell a new 4800 seires massey, nice 4880 on the lote there.

Madsnake

 

[benk8680]

try another one!

 

[benk8680]

one more!

 

[pa24180]

Couple tractors, empty showroom, no Harleys, no Gleaners!
Dwight E. Lambert, Albany, Oregon

 

[kalvesta]

Great looking store. I envy all the concrete (lack of mowing).

Bruce

 

[orange]

Beautiful shots of Versatiles, need Gleaners to go with the Versatiles for finishing touch.

 

[Christian A. Herrnboeck]

Niiicee... Now that's a nice dealer.

Lots of new red on the lot!

 

[GleanerKid]

I really don't see what lookingglass is complaining about, it seems like there are some exceptional Agco dealers in Illinois.

 

[lookingglass]

One dealer at one location does not make a dealer network. What the photos do not show is the dealership they closed in Taylorvillle. So while they have a nice facility, their service geography got smaller. Plus they are 150 miles from me.

 

[cowvan77]

Gotta remember lookingglass is just ONE disgruntled farmer.

 

[lookingglass]

Not anymore

 

[cowvan77]

Then why are you still on the Gleaner thread? Go to your beloved red combine thread and tell everyone how much better your case holland combine is that you have never ran.

 

[lookingglass]

I won't go proclaiming a machines greatness until it is proven. A theory that would be well served to about 95% of the posters on this forum.

It's comical how one AGCO dealer in IL builds a new store and somehow that is a dealer network. WM Nobbe and Sons at Waterloo IL(A Deere Dealer) has built 3 new stores in the last 5 years or so. I suspect that one dealer has built more new stores than all the IL AGCO dealers combined. That alone says a whole lot of the state of AGCO around here.

 

[orangeguy]

Lookingglass, believe it was you who said the red machine shines above the Gleaner in high yielding wet corn, sounded like a proclamation to me.
New stores aren't the total salvation either.

 

[lookingglass]

I agree, but when your dealers facilities are 40+ years old they barely have enough room, to work on one combine.

In floor heat and geothermal HVAC has not been real popular until the past 10-20 years. Sure some older buioldings may have them but I don't think it has been standard type equipment until the past 10 years or so. I agree on the overhead and I think when you look at these dealers building new stores they are being built from additional sales, not in hope of. Equipment sales is a tight margin business and guys aren't building new facilities and charging higher prices to cover those additional costs. Same goes for field service equipment. My AGCO dealer has a half ton pickup and a toolbox no bigger than my fishing tackle box and in many cases I had to provide any large hand tools. My Case dealer has several 2 ton trucks equipped with air, cranes, etc. Do I pay for that? Sure I do. But when the repairs go faster becauuse you have the right tools to do the job I feel that added expense is worth it. A combine is a mighty expensive piece to have sitting still. And I'm sure there are AGCo dealers who have the equipment to do the job, probably the one in the above pictures does, but I'm not going to pay him to drive 300 miles to do it, nor can he timely service customers at that distance.

 

[orangeguy]

In floor heat is nice, but so is infared overhead. Local Chevy dealer built a new facility, that could easily double as a farm equipment shop. His words were both systems are good, but the cost of floor heat in a large facility is a long pay back item. I've never had a problem with an Allis or Agco tech, not equiped for the job. I have had other brand techs on the farm, they weren't bad but alot more costly, and no faster. Different areas different dealers.

 

[lookingglass]

That my friend is the answer to a lot of arguments on here. Your business is gained through the dealer. Without the dealer the company as a whole will fail, which is what has happened in a large portion of the corn belt.

 

[orangeguy]

Partly dealer,partly customer attitude. Some customers would try nothing different even if you could prove it's a better mousetrap. My machine shed is rainbow also.