Sloan Implement combines

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I was looking up (via satellite view) GSI (Grain Systems Incorporated) in Assumption, IL and noticed a Sloan Implement next door. A quick count of combines on their lot shows over 100 machines, nearly all John Deere. That's more combines than on the lot at the factory in East Moline!! Sloan is a multi-location JD group in IL. Maybe other states as well ??
 
Yes, Sloan is a large multi-store dealership, Assumption is the home base location and has been around for a long time. They have a number of stores in Wisconsin as well. I think they have around roughly 20+/- stores in total. They also have Sloans Express which is similar to Shoup. It has been a number of years since we have bought any equipment from them.

Brad
 
Ya, Sloan is an Illinois based dealer, and should have stayed in Illinois! The Southwest Wisconsin Dealerships where bought up by this outfit. I havent met anyone here in my area that had anything good to say about Sloans. Most of their employees either quit or got fired. I realize farming here in Wisconsin is different then Illinois, but dont try and change the ways of business here. We no longer do business with Sloans, and have crossed the river into Iowa for our service and sales. Alot green blooded farmers have switched to red. We dont have a red combine yet, but the next one will be. Sloans have destroyed the presence of John Deere in this area, years ago majority of the equipment was green, different picture today. RED
 
You feel the same about them as I do. But I will never farm with red or blue so I am kind of stuck. Ritchie's parts and service and Hennessey's pricing do make me think about it once and a while. Tom
 
I have been a Shoup customer for years. A couple of years ago, I was at the National Farm Machinery Show, looking to buy something. Both Shoup and Sloan had it. The guy at the Sloan booth was so rude, he made my decision for me. I don't buy from Sloan for anything.
 
I'm kind of like you only opposite. There will never anything green on my farm.
 
Sloan is like many LARGE JD dealerships in that they think their Po does not stink. It will be fun watching them sell 100s of HIGH priced combines with corn around $3 net to fellows. These used combines are on interest baring floor plan notes. The program now has the dealership paying interest on them from day one.

A few years ago they had a combine at Cuba City that I was interested in. I made them a cash offer. The Sales manager acted insulted. He got all huffy with me. About a year later that very same combine sold at a clear out auction Sloan had south of the Quad Cities. It brought $25K less than what I offered them. So they had more interest on top of selling it for less money. I saw the Cuba City store manager a few weeks after that and just had to asked him how that all worked out for them. LOL HE was not real chatty.
 
I've found them not bad to deal with, but I'm out of their area. Mid State Equipment is local here... and to the local guys, they are a bunch of arrogant pricks, too.
 
I guess I am one of the lucky ones who lives just 3 miles from a large single store JD dealer where you know the owners and almost everyone who works for them. I hope they don't sell out as that might be the end of my hobby farming with JD equipment. I like to buy at a place where you can deal with and talk to the owners. Bought 4 tractors and a combine from them in the last 10 years. Al
 
(quoted from post at 06:44:34 12/04/16) I'm kind of like you only opposite. There will never anything green on my farm.

I agree with you. I've tried to buy a Great Plains drill from my "local dealer" but when he found out I had no JD equipment he wasn't interested in selling me the GP drill. So I went 40 miles away to another GP dealer. John Deere has an abundance of arrogance!
 
Thats is interesting because rumor had it a few years ago that MidStates might be buying the three Sloan stores in our area and many farmers were very happy as they all liked Mid States much better. Tom
 
It might be a case of the grass being greener on the other side... and Mid State does have some good people to work with, but the owners, well... I don't want to get kicked off the forum!
 
I hear ya, we tried to trade 3000 hour 9500 for a 9650, sales man said 9500's are old news and wasnt interested in our trade. So we went across the river to Bodensteiner and bought a real nice 9650, and they welcomed our trade. Since then they have all our business, combine, tractors, planter, etc. The Cuba City store is a ghost town, and the other smaller stores are even worse, very little work in the shop. So why would a dealer sell a combine at 25k less at auction then what you offered? Makes no sense, that combine would have generated some part sales and perhaps future business. Seems Sloans is trying to change the farmers ways of business, but here in Wisconsin, we are going to hold our ground and take our business elsewhere. Our family farms have been John Deere, and the Case Ih dealer up the road is waiting for us to change. The next deal might be on a large frame row crop, i will give Ritchie a try.

Funny thing i saw a grain cart with a Sloan sticker and below it said Sucks ( Sloans Sucks )
 

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