Britains Pricing

[tractorman314]

Just seen the new John Deere Sprayer on G & Ms website, and it made me think as to how Britains pricing is done, is it number of units produced, or perhaps if a model may have more longevity in the range, as the most recent additions;

43059 Kuhn VB2160 Round Baler is priced at £ 20.00 and 42909 John Deere R962i Sprayer is £ 14.50.

I would have thought from looking at the amount detail in each model that prices should be reversed. Anyone any thoughts.

tractorman314.

[b11jwd]

I don't think baler worth £20 when you can get large JCB for £20.

[Andy]

I think it comes down to new tooling. Britains now have a very large minimum run on their production so it is likely they are going to have to have large a single production on some of their items where previously they would produce less but have several runs of it. In order to get their investment back as quickly as possible, they are increasing the cost at the outset and over time, the cost may reduce in line with the revenue achieved and stock remaining. 

 

It may present problems in the long run of some less popular models.

[tractorman314]

Andy.

Do you know of any Production figures, would be interested to know if say Tractors are greater numbers than Implements, which i persume would be the case. Also interested to know if and when they would decide on a second production run, or are the quatities large in the first place.

 

tractorman314.

[Andy]

I'm not sure of exact previous figures but re-runs of implements would be around 1000 pcs. Tractors roughly double. New product tooling runs from 5000 through to 10000+ 

 

Obviously now, anything and everything will be 5000 plus. Old or New.