tractor selling situation, advice.
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Topic: tractor selling situation, advice.
Posted By: DarrylinWA
Subject: tractor selling situation, advice.
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:03am
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Morning guys, I got a situation on selling a tractor.
I have been dealing with this man for over 8 years and has bought a few tractors from me and is a guy of his word. Said he is going to buy my 4w220 and now cant get hold of him with cell or email for 2 months. I hope he is alright. If he says he is going to do something, he does it and this is just weird. So I have turned down a few other guys on buying this and now I cant find there contacts of either erased text messages
or voicemails. I don't want to keep bugging him by leaving a voicemail every 2 weeks. So when do I relist this?He was going to send a down payment now and the rest in Jan. I have other friends deal with him and done same thing. Wait till Jan then. Some of me says yes, some no. So in Jan, do I put on market again?
Thoughts and looking for wisdom and advice. Darryl
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B 10 Custom. Serial # 1001 D21, First D21 built 69 #4498 and Last D 21 Built #4609. 1946 MM UTU. And 2000, 2005 Pete's. AC custom Hauling.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:07am
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2 months is long enough imo. I think what I would do as a last ditch effort is write a good old fashioned snail mail letter. If he is sick or in some other such situation, a letter will be seen by those tending him, where they may not be able to get on an email or cell phone. If the letter goes unanswered another 3-4 weeks, move on. I think you've been more than fair trying.
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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:07am
Put it back on the market in January.
If you have his name and address or area that he's from you can do a google search. Maybe can find info that way.
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:22am
Kinda in a similar boat. Guy want's the engine out of D-14 #4, made the deal, pulled the engine(that's fun...),NOW he says can't come for weeks ! He also wants complete drawbar setup so I 'thought' it was a good deal.....
IF you have room to store ,send a 'final notice' message,something pleasent like 'haven't heard from you, hope you're OK, if you can't get back to me in xx days, I need to sell tractor to another guy....
Sometimes lawn mowers get dropped off here for me to fix, no name,no nothing though pad/pen are here ! Now one I knew who owned it, he came back 5 days later ,asked about it. I told him 'oh the red one, I saved a couple parts,took the rest to scrapyard'. I loved it when his jaw dropped to the ground !
THREE WEEKS ago 'someone' dropped off a Hitachi air framing nailer and a drywall screwgun. Took me 10 minutes to fix them. Anyone want them $10,yours, shipping and handling NOT included.....
Jay
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3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)
Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water
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Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:30am
Darryl your scenario is all too common these days and I am sorry if that seems like a broad brush stroke whack at the community as it is not. There are just enough people around making commitments that never follow through that I have become cautious about what I consider sold. For several months I have sitting on three "sold" items that will sell to the next guy who approaches me with cash and that is what I suggest that you do in this case. I do hope your buyer is OK.
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Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:57am
Darryl, kinda sounds like a situation has occurred in his world. Is there someone on here in the area that could go by there and check on the man?
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Allis Express North Georgia
41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's,
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Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2016 at 7:57am
You never know,back in the 1960's my dad had a guy come by and bought a disk plow
that mounted on Farmall M he gave dad a deposit said he'd be back the following week.He never showed up and we just kept the plow kinda forgot about it and we had no way to contact the fellow.About a year later he shows up ,come to find out he had a heart attack the day after he came by our place so we loaded up the plow,finished the deal and all was fine.Of course something like a tractor worth a lot of $$$ is different.
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