WELL....I guess living in a small area has a few disadvantages which made my shopping for a lawn rider day not what I was expecting. All of you have been very helpful, so I will not take up too much of your time. To recap my day today, here it is. As most of you know, I was going to test out the Simplicity Regent in various sizes, the John Deere X300 and LA-Series, and the Snapper Rear Engine Riders.
This was my experience.
Simplicity...The Simplicity place about two miles from my home was checked off my list because the guy is a jerk who runs it. So, I went to the other Simplicity place about 18 miles away and can you believe they are closed on Saturday and Sunday. Are you kidding me? Closed both days in the late Spring. Obviously, I could not look, feel or try any Simplicity.
Snapper...The Snapper place about 3 miles from my house was open till noon today. I got there and it was busy. Would you believe they told me they are a Snapper Distributor and order for people most of the tractors they want. They only had ONE Lawn Tractor in the whole place and it was a LT-200 model from last year. And, they had ONE Rear Engine Rider chained up in the front parking lot. I sat on it, but that is all I could do because they were busy. What a crummy experience at this place. No other Snapper dealers around here unless I want to drive about 45 miles, which I really do not want to do.
John Deere....I went here last, because as I mentioned last week, I had stopped at this John Deere store last week and the sales person basically told me not to buy the LA series because they were junk, even though I told him I only had about 1/4 acre of flat grass to mow. He told me to buy the X300. In any event, when I got there just after 12-noon, they were also closed. They close at noon on Saturday. Again, I cannot believe they would close so early. So, I sat on every LA series tractor they had on their lot and also sat on the X300. Obviously, I could not tell that much by just sitting on them except those John Deere seats are so darn comfortable, I did not want to get off. Plus, plenty of leg room.
So....that was my lousy day. It appears that I will have to take some time off from work to try out the Simplicity at the store 18-miles away. The Snapper place is a joke because how can I order something when they don't stock 90% of the tractors and rear engine riders, that I feel I should try first. Even though the John Deere guy tried to sell me an X300 the first time, at least they are also close to my home, have very good service from what I've been told and have tons of tractors in stock.
Always something to make you have to re-think so many things over again.
Dave
This was my experience.
Simplicity...The Simplicity place about two miles from my home was checked off my list because the guy is a jerk who runs it. So, I went to the other Simplicity place about 18 miles away and can you believe they are closed on Saturday and Sunday. Are you kidding me? Closed both days in the late Spring. Obviously, I could not look, feel or try any Simplicity.
Snapper...The Snapper place about 3 miles from my house was open till noon today. I got there and it was busy. Would you believe they told me they are a Snapper Distributor and order for people most of the tractors they want. They only had ONE Lawn Tractor in the whole place and it was a LT-200 model from last year. And, they had ONE Rear Engine Rider chained up in the front parking lot. I sat on it, but that is all I could do because they were busy. What a crummy experience at this place. No other Snapper dealers around here unless I want to drive about 45 miles, which I really do not want to do.
John Deere....I went here last, because as I mentioned last week, I had stopped at this John Deere store last week and the sales person basically told me not to buy the LA series because they were junk, even though I told him I only had about 1/4 acre of flat grass to mow. He told me to buy the X300. In any event, when I got there just after 12-noon, they were also closed. They close at noon on Saturday. Again, I cannot believe they would close so early. So, I sat on every LA series tractor they had on their lot and also sat on the X300. Obviously, I could not tell that much by just sitting on them except those John Deere seats are so darn comfortable, I did not want to get off. Plus, plenty of leg room.
So....that was my lousy day. It appears that I will have to take some time off from work to try out the Simplicity at the store 18-miles away. The Snapper place is a joke because how can I order something when they don't stock 90% of the tractors and rear engine riders, that I feel I should try first. Even though the John Deere guy tried to sell me an X300 the first time, at least they are also close to my home, have very good service from what I've been told and have tons of tractors in stock.
Always something to make you have to re-think so many things over again.
Dave