Deere Parts prices

I still don't know how they justify the price of $130 for a handful of o-rings in this steer valve kit.

Because they can

I can't justify it either. But I also know that the most expensive parts are the ones you cannot buy at all !

I agree. I can get it for $117. So probably you can get it for about $110?

No I can't understand it either......I rebuilt the main cylinder in a Hydra Push spreader last month, the kit had about 1/3 of the quantities in the photo and cost $128 (Canadian). Of course that includes +-30% exchange on the dollar.....I also replaced two elbow fittings...they were $27 EACH!!!. The option on the fittings is 1-1/2 hr in the car to pick up at a hydraulic shop. GRRRRRR.
Maybe I should have an O ring plant.

They don't have to. That's why.

Up till early 2000. We had three JD dealers here. All three were mom and pop. The two smaller dealers there prices never varied more than about $2.00. They would also lend you special tools if needed when you bought the parts from them. They were also open late on 4th of July during wheat harvest. The bigger dealer there prices were always 20% higher and they would not even loan you a wiring diagram.

The big dealer now has ten dealerships. They bought the two little dealers and then closed them. They charge you an extra hundred dollars for an after hours parts call.

I remember when they bought the little dealer. They sent out a letter stating they bought them to better serve there customers!

CaseIh is just as bad. I think they own 12 stores.

Deere and IH did not do their customers any good by allowing the Mega Dealers to take over..I know it's just a change in times....but the Mom and Pop stores had more dignity and customer care than the Mega dealers ever will by far.. When I worked for the local dealer here in the 70's many times a customer would come in and need a seal pressed in or some other small job,, the owner would not charge for it, and thank them for stopping in as they left.. I still do that here and it serves me well...

It's been my opinion for a while now that Deere makes more on licencing the name and logo than selling equipment.

That's probably why the counter is void of customers when I go to the local dealer. It's no wonder we all use NAPA, Worthington, Tractor PArts ASAP, and of course this site!

Right now, though, I think the dealers are worried. Parts are cheaper somewhere else. Usually anywhere else. Used lots are full of very expensive iron. And not many folks are buying. Not sure if this will change anything, but it is reality. Perhaps the only change will be reducing the number of dealers some more.

I miss the places with wood panel decor that had the same parts guy for longer than you can remember. Oh boy do I ever!

I have a dozen Deere tractors,three combines and a full line of tillage,haying and forage equipment and my Deere dealer is the last place I go for parts. Priced a part for the 400 feed grinder a week ago and at $400 for a universal yoke with a sprocket I will just buy another mill for parts. Sometimes used Deere parts are better than new aftermarket. I had a 920 moco that needed the lift cylinder repacked, Deere did not even have the correct packing kit available.The computer listed it but it was not right and parts man even called deere and was told there is a problem with the kits,just sell him a $800 cylinder. Sent it to a hyd. shop and for $110 it was rebuilt. The incorrect parts from Deere were over $80. It is not all the dealers fault Deere has really changed in the last ten years. Tom

That's the same price the JD dealer asked me for that little fuse holder that goes in the dash on a 1010 tractor.

To quote a famous "philosopher" and recent president, "I feel your pain." Try Greenpartstore.com. Here is a comparison of some of my recent shopping:
Item Greenpartstore John Deere
F109R Gasket $14.55 $21.83
B432R Bushing 17.37 26.06
A1491R Spring 52.94 60.88

Still not cheap, or even reasonable, but better than Mother Deere, at least. Also, their shipping is reasonable.

Call around to different dealers and the prices will be different too.

John in Utah
I think you need to look around for a different JD dealer that sells parts at MSRP. I've never found Green parts that much cheaper than my local dealer. Following are the prices from my dealer.
F109R Gasket - GASKET, GOVERNOR SHAFT BRG HSG,LH ADD 14.55 USD
B432R Bushing - BUSHING,GOVERNOR LEVER SHAFT ADD 17.37 USD
A1491R Spring - SPRING,SPEED CHANGE ADD 52.94 USD

Tim, that is the same price as my dealer here in NEIL.

Brad

Tim, I totally agree with you. We still have a single store family run John Deere dealer 3 miles from my home in NE Wis. I believe they are only one of three single store dealers left in Wis. And yes, they have pressed in seals and other items for me without charge. But I did buy 4 tractors and a combine from them in the last 10 years. I too hope they don't get bought out by the mega dealer that has bought out 9 other JD dealers in my area of Wis. Al

Just bought 4 heads bolts for a 2520 gas! $48 plus tax a piece! I know how you feel.

You guys need to buy some parts for a Boeing 737 and then you'd think John Deere parts are on a fire sale.

How about $92,000 for a lavatory door? Want to lock that door? That's $5000 for the latch you slide while doing your business in the air. Need to replace a broken plastic curtain hook? That's cheap at $100 compared to the nylon shim that's smaller than the tip of your pinky finger at $456.00.

I still can't understand how airlines make money.

It cost me over $150 for the governor gasket set for my 1952 JD A tractor how could anyone ever totally rebuild a tractor anymore at these crazy prices. One thing I thought came down in price are the warning lights that go on the fenders on the late 4020 and up part number AR 50580 I was sure they were much higher before unless they are total imports now.

(quoted from post at 00:09:18 01/29/16) You guys need to buy some parts for a Boeing 737 and then you'd think John Deere parts are on a fire sale.

How about $92,000 for a lavatory door? Want to lock that door? That's $5000 for the latch you slide while doing your business in the air. Need to replace a broken plastic curtain hook? That's cheap at $100 compared to the nylon shim that's smaller than the tip of your pinky finger at $456.00.

I still can't understand how airlines make money.

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We could trade $$$ horror stories back and forth between the aviation industry and Nuclear Industry all day.
Probably the only areas worse would be the medical industry or the military.

I bet we could B&D, without even getting our Premier involved!

The mark up on parts or anything for that is extremely high regardless if it is from the local JD dealer or from Wal-Mart. The cost of doing business is astronomical, from insurances, maintenance, and even turning the lights and heat on. All there employees need/want health insurance, a 401(k), vacation time, yearly raise in pay and any other benefits that they deserve, this is no different me or the next guy. I don’t like paying any more than I have too, but sometimes you have no choice but to.

If you knew how much they marked up them tool boxes and all of them tools that fill the draws you will think Deere is giving there parts away.

Hi

Round here our dealers are just crooks. I priced A pto shaft for an 1830 tractor. it was close to a thousand bucks with Deere.I Found a jobber through A&I was like $300 plus a bit of shipping so say $30 more, the tractor wasn't worth Deere partsso jobber would work fine.. JD can get that same exact shaft from the same company $750. The best part was I told Deere if they were going to quote A&I parts for my customer the prices had better be close to the A&I prices that we pay with the local wreckers that sell A&I. I don't think 420 more is close!. When I told them go look on the wreckers web site and plus shipping thats my price it went pretty quiet. I just said a lot of your customers must be stupid if they don't shop round for prices. Back in the old days highway men/Robbers got hung from a convenient tree branch if they got caught. Seems to me now they just recruit them to price and sell parts for Deere/ other big name machinery dealers L.O.L.
Regards Robert

Some one has to pay for the Fancy building and the paved parking lot,,the new trucks and the dead weight setting around..I pulled into the local Mega dealer last summer with my "less than Good" old Ford pickup,, the manager was standing out front talking to a customer,, he said to me "That old truck is getting kinda ratty Tim",,and I replied "If I over charged and cheated as many people as you have,,I'd have a new truck" and I walked on...

Hi Tim
Thats funny, what was the look on the customers face? To be honest if one dealer local to here wanted to cut dead weight he needs to fire some of the useless twits they hired. Lots of the time I know more from the JD online parts page than the dealer parts guy. some of the guys in the shop aren't much better. The favorite stunt these guys have for getting staff is take on all the guys round that had their own business and failed.Yeah they failed for a reason, they were hopeless. Things might improve now though as there will be a lot of good oil patch mechanics looking for work now, they are laying off the god guys in the next round of cuts from what I here.
Regards Robert

I can buy through 2 guys, one a big farmer jockey that repairs a lot of machinery and one a big farmer and restores tractors. They get a 20% discount.

Our local store bought two others, then merged into ten, now swallowed up into sixteen. For parts, they have daily transfers between them, often helps me out. When I bought a project tractor, I was able to negotiate a 10% parts discount. The counter guy lives a few miles from me, will drop parts off on his way home. He gave me the Super Filter Sale price a few weeks early, when I bought on my schedule, not theirs.

In other words, few complaints from me!

Where is the "LIKE" BUTTON!!?? LOL

I've said it before. John Deere want's to be Caterpillar. They want to charge Cat prices for parts. Problem is there's never been the money in Ag that there is in Construction/dirt.

The dealers Charge what they want because they pretty well have the market cornered since they acquired A&I. I've always loved green, but if Vermeer would build a tractor, it'd be the next one I bought. John Deere's arrogance has trickled down to the dealers and is too much for me to tolerate any more.

I'll add my 2 cents worth to this. Unfortunately, times are changing, and Deere has decided to take care of the stockholders rather than the dealers and the end customers. I spent 21 years behind the parts counter at the local dealership. During that time, I worked for 3 different owners. First 12 years wa smom and pop....the owner sat in the office area behind big glass windows and a wide open door....always available to customers and employees. A lot of the help had been there for years. The philosophy was to take good care of the customer....large or small. Like Tim, we never charged the customer to press a seal or other tiny jobs. At the parts counter, we charged John Deere suggested list price. At that time, Deere had weekly stock orders, and gave the dealer nearly 10% stock order discount. We passed that discount on...if a customer ordered a part on stock order. Once in a while, on something that was outlandishly priced, the parts manager would ok a discount, just to help the customer out. When Deere cut back the stock order discount to 2% or so, we had to give that up. We also gave and recieved discounts with competitive dealerships, so when we worked on "other color" equipment in our shop, our parts prices were close to what the customer would pay at the other dealer. We had a Deere parts and service rep that came by every month or two to help us any way he could. One of the big things he could do was to help a customer who had a complaint or had something that had failed while just out of warranty. If it was something he felt was legitimate, he had the authorization to take care of it. Deere has since eliminated this position, and its nearly impossible to get the ok for something such as this.
In 2004, Deere went to my boss, and another mom and pop dealership almost 200 miles away, and told them that one needed to buy out the other, or neither would have their contracts renewed. It took almost 2 years for the other guy to get the deal done, and buy us out. Nothing much changed....he ran things pretty much the same. He was almost 200 miles away, so he put in a store manager and let him make decisions based on our area. In order to pacify Deere, he had to buy another couple of dealerships tho, so he was spread pretty thin. After a few years, Deere put the pressure on....again, and he had to sell out. Enter the mega-dealers. Deere gave him the names of three mega's and told him he had to sell to one of the three.....end of discussion.
So he picked one, made the deal, and in 2015 they took us over. Everything changed overnight, of course. The kept most, but not all of us.....and demoted some of us that they did keep. Of course they brought in their own people for any management position, and they were all from the mega's construction and forestry side, and had absolutely no agriculture experience. Plus a good share of them were idiots.
One kept after me to go look for some unimportant brochures supposedly sent by the corporate office....all this while I was trying to fill what turned out to be a $5000.00 order for one of our biggest customers...who was waiting patiently.
Prices went up by at least 20% and we could not change prices at all. No discounts for anyone, so we lost all the reciprical prices from everyone. We were required to jack the price on freight charges way up high.
The final straw for me was when the other parts guy decided to retire. The two of us had worked great together for several years....which is good in a two person parts dept.
They decided to replace him with a "problem child" from one of the other stores. I asked them not to, as did everyone else in our store. We even had a lot of customers calling in not wanting this person. (He had worked at a lot of different places in our area) No avail. Much as I enjoyed my job, it was time to move onward.
Sorry to ramble on.....I was just wanting to add to this thread from a dealership employee standpoint.