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Posted by smart guy on January 22, 2004 at 13:37:09 from (209.152.95.51):
In Reply to: outrageous prices posted by J.D.Green on January 21, 2004 at 20:21:15:
It seems to me that if a for guy can buy a carb part for 50 cents for a ford and a deere one is 6.80, I would say one of these guys is getting screwed, and it isn't the guy with blue paint, Ive worked in a large industrial setting, making valves for different companies, it didn't cost us any more for a similar valve to a different company, the steel all comes from the same place deere has got a niche market and they know it, its called green paint, If you don,t beleive me ask to see deeres profit margins, as for the workers, the ford ones probably get higher wages, Deere outsoures a lot of there part making to cut the cost down Hence more money for the corporate vacation, the one you paid for,. get real
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