Seakaye12 wrote:Ha; just as you posted that I happened to be on e-bay and noticed this disclaimer posted on one of the JD Dealers who choose to sell on the bay:
"We cannot sell parts and accessories to any person or business that is engaged in selling used equipment, repairing or providing maintenance services on equipment, or a person or business that is primarily engaged in renting equipment to end users. We reserve the right to cancel the sale of any item to anyone who is not the end user of the product."
Yikes I say! Is John Deere out there by themselves with such restrictions or is this typical in that market as a whole?
Go ahead and buy from them any way - they cancel orders and get enough defects, eBay will suspend them. such a disclaimer means nothing on eBay or Amazon , and indeed probably would be enough to get them suspended outright. (by eBay or Amazon)
Stihl has even tighter restrictions - Stihl dealers are not allowed to even sell parts online at all, (including eBay or Amazon) - so any genuine OEM Stihl parts you might find are either 1) being sold in violation of that , or 2) discounted by dealer to someone else that then sells them online, or 3) stolen, counterfeited, or closeouts... (Most often from what I have seen, they are grey market or counterfeited, or simply labeled as OEM when they are actually aftermarket.. Stihl also has a huge problem with knock-off chainsaws and stuff (they look just like a real Stihl down to the colors and artwork, with one tiny difference in spelling..)
If a Stihl dealer is caught selling that stuff online, they lose their franchise. Oddly enough, the #2 (Husqvarna) has no such restrictions at all , and on a recent long road trip down to the middle of the state, It's like Husqvarna dealers are sprouting like weeds everywhere you look - hardware stores, dollar stores, I even saw one place on the drive that looked like a restaurant with a showroom off to the side, selling Husqvarna..
Much like Echo and Shindaiwa dealers are not permitted to sell serialized units online (though Home Depot evidently has a special exception from that) many other manufacturers have similar restrictions and clauses you must agree to when you become a dealer.
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