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Originally Posted by rusnak
Around here, Bobcat and Kubota are pretty jealous of each other. You might find a Massey Ferguson dealer that sells Kubota, but you won't find a Bobcat dealer that sells anything else. It's the same with Ford Equipment. They will sell New Holland, but that's it. And Cat? Don't even think about buying anything but Caterpillar from a Cat dealer.
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That used to be the way things were with most dealers. Competitive brand trades went out the door and out of market. That's why I never used to have problems buying equipment. But today? With inventories low and salesmen needing paid, most have gone to selling their competitive brand trades even if that means selling them back into their own market.
Massey/Kubota is a somewhat common thing really. Massey doesn't have their own line of construction equipment so you'll see a Massey dealer with Kubota, Gehl, Mustang, Takeuchi construction equipment. Same with some Case dealers because of the way Case handles construction equipment. You can have a Case construction and Case AG dealer in the same market and the Case AG dealer can't sell case skid steers or mini excavators because of the Case construction dealer in the area.