Asking prices for tractors?

Do you suppose that most of these guys, who post these high priced tractors here really expect to get their asking prices? The days of the $3000 8N or the $3000 IH Cub are gone. There are a lot of people trying to sell here that live in fantasy land. I guess they are hoping someone will bail them out of their mistakes.LOL.

I had a guy come in to where I work to buy a lawn mower. The one he was looking at was 7800.00 which is making 500.00 dollars. He starts to beat on me about the price saying He felt like he was not getting a deal because , I said the price was the price. He said I should come down. I said lets start over and showed him the sales book that showed a list price of 9065.00 , to show him what a deal I was giving him. What do you want? A good price right off the bat or do you want to beat us down? If you can t make 500.00 on a 7000.00 mower we might as well quit.

I don't know. I think some of these new comers to the county here in Colorado will pay 3000 for a 8N and don't know any better. They could have come from Calif. and work in the tec industry. Same people that bought their house at 9 and a half percent variable interest rate. Public trustee weekly auction yesterday at Weld Count had 25 places sold.

"Do you suppose that most of these guys, who post these high priced tractors here really expect to get their asking prices? The days of the $3000 8N or the $3000 IH Cub are gone."

But they heard 10 years ago about Uncle Fred's cousin's neighbor's dog that sold a tractor for 10 times what it was worth, so their rusting pile of junk should be worth the same today.

What gets me are the unrealistic Ebay beginning auction prices and yet when the tractor doesn't get a single bid they re-list it with the same starting price. Some people just don't have a clue.

Guess what? I CAN sell something for an "overpriced" value, and I WILL, as long as there are other people still doing it.

I always wonder who would pay $3,000 bucks for a 9n. They're cute tractors, but for 3K you can get one heck of a machine.

It's the same on Craig's List. I know a guy who couldn't sell a MH 44 that needed a little TLC for under $500. It took him two weeks to get what he was asking. Yet, at the same time guys are selling 'pretty' tractors for thousands the day they list them. How that new song go? God is great, beer is good and people are crazy......

An implement dealer told me he recently sold over 30 pieces on a single Saturday to 'citidiots' heading up north to put in deer plots. This is stuff that can be found in any barn yard rusting away and they're paying top dollar for it.

The headlines say the economy is bad but my observations tell me otherwise! The president says 'all is well, spend away' and they are. It will come back and get us all though!

I know a few guys that were going out west to buy and ship back older JD tractors to resell. They did this for about 12 - 15 years, and now they can't get what they want for them and now have to go back to jobs they quit to do this. their prices were set to give them a 50% profit, and they got it as long as some were foolish enough to believe that an older tractor (and not really rare)makes a good investment for the future (like gold!?!)
Seeing for sale prices in Green Magazine give me a good chuckle every time

I think tractor prices are all about location. It costs a lot of money today to get a tractor from point A to point B. Tractor that are common in some areas are scarce in others and that brings about the big price difference. I turned down $5500.00 the other day for an 8N. One simply cannot be bought in running condition around here for less than $2500.00. A nice Super M Farmall will bring 5000.00 or more and a 560 Diesel will bring $8000.00. A good 135 Massey or a 3600 Ford, just name your price.

I suppose we all look for a bargain....I certainly do. If I want to get raped, I buy stuff new.....where the minute the cash exchanges hands, I lose at least 1/3 of the value.....ask the friendly dealer below if that isn"t so. Yup...suddenly if I bring it back to trade it in."it"s USED" and therefore worth nothing compared to what I paid him maybe a week or a month before. Yet if he takes it in trade after socking it to me sans Vaseline, he"ll have it on his lot for not much less than what he sold it to me for. That makes me bleed along with the burning sensation.

These yuppie types and the big bad deer hunters are the worst, are killing the old equipment market for us "users". WE go looking for an old disc harrow, only to find the weekend warriors have drove the prices through the roof by paying whatever some slick dealer throws at them. You can"t find any old Cub equipment anymore because some retard with a 4 wheeler has paid $500 for Cub disc, that"s actually worth $50-$75, so he can sow "food plots". Any damned moron who thinks he can go to the middle of the woods and sow a crop, isn"t too bright to begin with. That also ought to give a hint of their hunting prowess.....they hope to bait the beasts in so they can assassinate them during supper!

I wouldn"t give $1200 for an 8N with fresh paint and new tires, let alone $3000! When I was much, much younger, I worked for folks who had those death traps on the farm. I also had a good friend killed on an 8N.

The biggest factor in escalating prices on old tractors and machinery, are these slicker types who have taken up "tractor restoring" instead of car restoring. The price of old cars got so high....folks suddenly fancied old tractors. Drive through a yuppie development sometime.....you"ll see shiny parade queens parked in the yard. They"ll not be within 50 miles of nearest farm.

It"s a disgusting state of affairs, all around. I"ve never seen the attraction in an old worn out tractor, in the first place. People bought them new, many years ago in order to reduce their workload...as to replace a team of farting mules. They used them until they were used up....worn out and went and got another one. They were ragged out junk when they parked them, alongside the ragged out old car in the fence row. Forty years later, some nut comes along foaming at the mouth wanting to buy that "rare" beast that only 129 were built. If they had any sense, they"d know why only 129 were built.....they weren"t any good when they were new, nobody would buy them, so production ceased and something better replaced them. DUH! Oh...but to the slicker, they have just acquired one of the Crown Jewels!

I"ve owned many tractors over the years and the newer ones have always been better than the old ones. If machines built in the 50"s were so superior, the companies would still be building them to meet the market demands. My dad is 75 years old and one bit of wisdom i heard him spout that sticks with me is: Son, the good ol" days, is right NOW.

I have exactly one old tractor on the place, a "52 super A, that I cultivate the garden with. It all the "vintage" machine I can stand. The 2005 model JD does the real work. The $32,000 I paid for it was a rip off, but still yet, it was a bargain compared to the asking prices for the clunkers offered for sale.

I don,t know where welding man is but I would like to find out. Basicaly we want even trade for tri-cicle front end tractors like wd45 ac and M farmall. The best running ones here want bring over $900.00 or so. The 135 Massey gas no power steering you can,t get more than maybe 2,500. Everbody here wants the Desiel compacts.
Even the food plot hunting crowd want a 4 wheel drive Kubota. Used sometimes brings more than new because shey don,t shop ..

Again, it's all about location. I've sold 2 MF135's in the last year, both gas, average condition, neither w/power steering. One went for $4500, other sold for $4850. Both sold with-in a week of listing them. I sold a diesel 135 w/power steering, near new rubber and new paint for $6200. This area is big on small Masseys and Fords. Gas 3000's in rough shape bring north of $4000 too. If they sell at those prices, I'm sure gonna ASK those prices

Gee Mark, lighten up! I have 4 of those "yuppie" old tractors, and they do fine for me. They still bush hog, mow, and pull wagons to help me maintain my property. They may not be as good as your $32,000 machine, but they do the job, and all 4 didn't cost me 1/3 of what you paid for yours. And, if you want to get rid of that 52 A "yuppie" machine, let me know, it'll work for me! Of course, I'd only be willing to pay the pittance that you imply it's worth...
As for the "yuppies", leave them alone, they're enjoying a hobby, and, in this country, we have the right to "pursue happiness". Actually, I'm just jealous, 'cause my wife would kick my butt if I spent $32,000 on a tractor

I'm sure if Mark were was selling a Cub or 8N and offered $3000 he'd turn it away because it was just too much....

Really Mark, lighten up. Nobody wants to hear that belly-achin. Not to mention, half of what you said didn't make much sense.

I figured the whiners would come out of the woodwork on that one. And, if you lack the logic to comprehend the message contained therein, you need to be paying $3,000+ for 8N Fords. The minute some of you fail to get 'feel good' responses to your interests, your fangs poke out. Well, suck'em back in, you look ugly like that.

As for whether I'd be offered $3,000 for Cub is a moot point.....I'd never ask such such an asinine price to begin with, even if there are stupid asses out there willing to pay it. I sold a Cub with cultivators 2 or 3 years ago that looked better than 90% of what I see offered for sale...for $1300. I also had a '51 Super A equipped with one of those godawful belly mowers, tires were 85%, wheelweights all around and very nice paint...$1800. The SA went to Illinois as I recall, and the Cub went to Appomattox, Va. Evidently both buyers were satisfied......I never heard from them again.

Mite be in your area but there is a demand for the older stuff other places. The old Fords still have their place. So how big is your place and what do you do with it? The Cub is great for a garden if thats what you need one for aint seen a cult for a Kubota,John Deere or lots of this new stuff they couldnt even pull a plow. They must not be too bad of a machine 60 yrs old and still do a job easy to fix cant say that about the new stuff thats why the lots are full of couple yrs old things.

I agree with Mark on the deer hunters coming in and sowing crops in the middle of the woods. I wish they'd stay home, keep all their toys out of the woods and leave it to those of us who have the fortitude to live here.

I also agree with Mark about paying thousands for old tractors being crazy.

I also agree that it's a hobby for some but for many of us the old ones get the job done at a fraction of the cost of new machines.

The old ones are easier to work on as well. Hell, I can't fix most things on my tractor or my computer so I damn sure don't want a tractor that I need a computer to fix.

My pick-up is bad enough. $1600 today for rear brakes, ball joints, and a tune up.

I agree that the 'the good ole days are now' or at least that that is the way to approach each day.

The topic here was originally 'Asking price for tractors'. Since I helped us get off topic somewhat I'll bring it back.

A tractor; an old one, a new one, a running one, a stuck one, or a restored one.........is worth whatever you are willing to pay for it if your buying or whatever you ask for it or can get for it if your selling.

That's my two cents worth.