Re: Need 8N Sales Tips

Posted by K5_489 on July 10, 2020 at 13:13:34 from (99.203.105.144):

In Reply to: Need 8N Sales Tips posted by kengregg on July 10, 2020 at 10:00:36:

As a recent buyer of my 8N, I spent quite some time looking at the various online market places - Craigslist, Facebook, eBay, and even Tractor House, to get an idea of what they were going for. Ended up taking over a year before I bought something. In that time I began to get a pretty good feel for prices, largely by watching many ads. Eventually was able to tell which ones were going to sell quickly and which ones were going to languish for months. Of course, usually the ones that were going to sell quick were also well above what I could spend, lol.

Prices will vary WIDELY based on region. If you're smack dab in the middle of rural farming country, prices are likely going to be MUCH lower than say where I'm at - Phoenix. There's just not a lot of tractors around here to begin with beyond your typical lawn/garden tractors, compared to say rural areas of the corn belt where you can't pass a property without seeing a handful of old tractors on the back lots.

Here, a $1500 *N tractor is a pile of rusted out "yard art". I watched MANY old tractors go for $3000+ pretty quick here, and if it has a loader on it, even a "jungle gym" Wagner or Dearborn, you can pretty much count on getting $5,000 for it if it simply starts up and runs..kinda. I saw quite a few ads from people in northern California, Iowa, Utah, and Colorado that I seriously thought about going to see, as the prices were MUCH cheaper than here, but those were potentially 20 hour round trip drives, and I never really trusted my truck to go that far and back.

I feel I got VERY lucky to find my current 8N a few months ago for $1800, with a Wagner WM3 loader on it, despite all 4 tires in desperate need of replacement, and some tune up work needed. Thankfully, there are many, MANY, people today that can't follow simple directions. In this case, the seller specifically said to call, and NOT text or email. 20 people replied before me, but I was the first to call as requested, went out to look at, and immediately bought it.

Seller had good pictures all around, was up front about what it needed, and there weren't any surprises when I showed up. I didn't even try to haggle him down.

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