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Okay so somebody help me out here. There’s a Rural King right in town close to where I live. I was talking with the power equipment department manager about a 462 and he said they had sold two (2) TWO the whole year of 2024!!!! Yet the prices keep going up, seemingly every quarter???? What
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Okay so somebody help me out here. There’s a Rural King right in town close to where I live. I was talking with the power equipment department manager about a 462 and he said they had sold two (2) TWO the whole year of 2024!!!! Yet the prices keep going up, seemingly every quarter???? What
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STIHL
SMOKING???

EGO and $$$
 

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A lot of things are still increasing in price. Friday night fish fry is popular here and I noticed this past Friday the cost of one from a local restaurant has increased from $18 to $21. The ripple effect is that the tip increases and so does the sales tax. 15 years ago the cost was $10. It‘s now over 100% more than then.
 

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I was in Ohio this summer at the drag races and stopped into a hardware store that I think is a chain store and took a walk through the Stihl section.
Holy fack I couldn’t believe the prices, everything was more then double what I pay dollar for dollar.
If I had to pay $44 bucks for 84dl 3/8 chain I’d burn propane
 

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I take it you have not looked at recent car prices.

24 GMC Sierra EV.

People seem to have no problem giving 100k for a pickup. No way in hell I would come close to giving that
I do. I have a big problem with truck prices. If everybody didn’t drive them for cars they’d be priced closer to where they need to be
 

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Need to remember that RK mostly sells saws to homeowners/landowners.

Tree companies are going to buy from shops that service the equipment.

Thinking that your survey results will be different if you chatted with a dealer.
The problem is Stihl has abandoned the brick and mortar servicing dealers. I am 40 miles down river from a metro area of 250,000 folks and in that area there is not one single brick and mortar servicing dealer. All there is are Deere and box stores.
 

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The problem is Stihl has abandoned the brick and mortar servicing dealers. I am 40 miles down river from a metro area of 250,000 folks and in that area there is not one single brick and mortar servicing dealer. All there is are Deere and box stores.
How about the entire state of Idaho now…? No full time saw shops at all.
 

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I have talked about this before and posted the pictures before and I will again. This is what Stihl has done to family owned brick and mortar dealers that built the Stihl brand in the USA.

Door 4.jpgDoor 5.jpg
 

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I have talked about this before and posted the pictures before and I will again. This is what Stihl has done to family owned brick and mortar dealers that built the Stihl brand in the USA.

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wow, that really sucks.
this is how Brad Seals builds up his inventory...last I talked to him he'd bought out all the "old parts" from a chain of dealers outside of Indiana. Took him two trips with truck/trailer.
 

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Their saw prices here increased dramatically in 2022 and haven't changed much since.
I bought a 462 for €1000 in 2018, the same saw is €1290 now from the cheapest dealer. They were €50 dearer 6 months ago.

These companies know they can charge what they want because people are always going to spend money to offset their taxes. I paid €590 to the government in VAT for the last two month period, if I had spent more money on equipment I wouldn't have paid anywhere near as much. Makes you want to just work for cash and not write receipts. But I can't go into a timberwolf dealership and hand over €50000 in cash for a brand new wood chipper, they would tell me to piss right off.
 

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Their saw prices here increased dramatically in 2022 and haven't changed much since.
I bought a 462 for €1000 in 2018, the same saw is €1290 now from the cheapest dealer. They were €50 dearer 6 months ago.

These companies know they can charge what they want because people are always going to spend money to offset their taxes. I paid €590 to the government in VAT for the last two month period, if I had spent more money on equipment I wouldn't have paid anywhere near as much. Makes you want to just work for cash and not write receipts. But I can't go into a timberwolf dealership and hand over €50000 in cash for a brand new wood chipper, they would tell me to piss right off.

In America our taxes are not based on how much money we piss away.
 

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If you own a tree service, you are writing off the value of the saws as business expense, so yes, our taxes are completely based on how much we piss away from a business standpoint
You missed my point. I guess I will clarify a bit. Do you buy saws to generate income with or do you buy saws to use as a tax "write-off"?
 
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