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Buy Now and Save! The Sky is falling?

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Hay DR

05-06-2008 05:36:05




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Just yesterday May 5,08 Vermeer raised prices 5% and will do so again buy Fall. This means larger dealers that have orders already in the pipeline will have as much as a 10%+ advantage over smaller dealers. Most of the Southeastern dealers are coming off the worst hay equipment sales of all time because of the drought. The current SE inventory is lower that normal and this means you will have to act quickly or pay the price increases. Over the winter Vermeer did offer rebates so now retail customers will see prices this fall 15%+ over the 2007 spring prices.
Steel prices for certain types of steel have more than doubled since last fall. You will see many European imported products take a 15-25% increase over the 2007 price. Many of the hay tools are made in Europe and with the weak US$ and higher transportation costs there will not be many other alternatives.

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INCase

05-06-2008 14:05:37




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 Re: Buy Now and Save! The Sky is falling? in reply to Hay DR, 05-06-2008 05:36:05  
The equipment companies I used to work for, The rule of thumb was multiply the cost to make the e machine by 3, 4 or 5x and that would be "Suggested retail". so a machine that cost 1$1000 to make would "retail" for $5000. The dealers paid about 60% or MSRP. So minus any extra dealer cost would give their margin. I can"t say that was absolutly true in any or all cases but that was the "rule of thumb" I was told. Seems like alot of margin but if you"re a small dealer and only sell a few pieces a year its probably not much.

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steamnjn23

05-06-2008 11:33:56




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 Re: Buy Now and Save! The Sky is falling? in reply to Hay DR, 05-06-2008 05:36:05  
makes perfect sense to me: sales are down so raise prices.
reminds me of politicians.



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55 50 Ron

05-06-2008 11:09:55




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 Re: Buy Now and Save! The Sky is falling? in reply to Hay DR, 05-06-2008 05:36:05  
Seems like it should "be the other way around".

If sales of hay equipment is the SE was bad in 2007, then it seems the inventory should be HIGHER not lower than normal since not as much would have been sold in 2007.



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E.B. Haymakin'

05-06-2008 11:21:16




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 Re: Buy Now and Save! The Sky is falling? in reply to 55 50 Ron, 05-06-2008 11:09:55  
Dealers probably didn"t order as much, if any stock because sales were slow.



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