Using hedges and puts and margin calls and hedge to arrive is very easy to sell grain too.
If you know how. If you have worked on it a while. If you spent a lot of time researching it.
Maybe it looks easy from your side of the desk to get a simple price on a piece of equipment, but from the farmer customer who is focused on producing grain or livestock, the implement sales desk is a terrible place to spend an afternoon in an element that is -your- domain, not mine. Nothing there is 'easy' for most customers.
It is where you are comfortable. Maybe a lot of folk on the other side of the desk are quite uncomfortable?
Really, this negotiating prices on big ticket new items is for the birds. The old Saturn model where they had a real price and that is what it sold for eliminated all the goofing around and making people feel taken advantage of.
It would lessen the number of sales people needed - not get rid of you, but put the spotlight on you helping with the rest of the transaction, not all this back and forth bickering on prices.
It is a situation you as the salesman are very much in control of, and control usually leads to a feeling of being taken advantage of.
I don't think I'm disagreeing with you directly, just a different view of it all maybe.
Upload one or more videos to your post. Photo filesizes should be less than 300K and Videos, less than 2MB. Formats allowed are gif, jpg, png, ogg, mp4, mov, and avi. Be sure to use filenames without spaces or special characters, and filetypes of 3 digits lower case.
We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]
Today's Featured Article - What Oil Should I Use? - by Francis Robinson. I keep seein this question pop up over and over again in discussion groups all over the web. As with many things there are often several right answers and a few wrong ones. Some purist I'm sure will disagree to no end with what I will tell you but most of us out here in the real world don't really care do we ? Some of them only bring their noses down out of the air long enough to look down them anyway. If you are like me you are only doing this old tractor stuff because you enjoy it. You
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
1964 I-H 140 tractor with cultivators and sidedresser. Starts and runs good. Asking 2650. CALL RON AT 502-319-1952
[More Ads]
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy
TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.
