I ain't reading all the posts!

[pike]

Has this not been stihls policy for years?,as a stihl dealer ive signed a dealer agreement,do,s and donts etc,ie dealer handovers,its just nobody has stuck to it,ourselves included,

[Jewillo]

I may have missed this comment on other threads but - I wonder what stihls efforts, comments and feed back they will have when pretty much everyone is going to be getting stuck in o them at the Arb show in a couple of weeks

 

Glad I am not a stihl rep attending the AA show

 

James

[mendiplogs]

It's a lot different in my opinion... You can't send anything out to anyone whereas in the past you could send out to known professional users. This is a massive change in the policy, we will be following it strictly from Monday as everyone else should do. I have spoken to Stihl and it is what has been said 'no items sent through the post whatsoever'.

 

 

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HI BARRY lawyers for some large dealers will find loop holes by the weekend but if they do all what happens then stihl put them on stop it not good times for large net dealers:thumbdown: but good on small sub dealers :thumbup1:thanks jon

[mendiplogs]

I may have missed this comment on other threads but - I wonder what stihls efforts, comments and feed back they will have when pretty much everyone is going to be getting stuck in o them at the Arb show in a couple of weeks

 

Glad I am not a stihl rep attending the AA show

 

James

 

HI JAMES stihl will have a stand there :001_tongue:way large QQQQ on it :001_huh:jon

[Barry_Skyland]

HI BARRY lawyers for some large dealers will find loop holes by the weekend but if they do all what happens then stihl put them on stop it not good times for large net dealers:thumbdown: but good on small sub dealers :thumbup1:thanks jon

 

Hi Jon I'm not sure lawyers will come into it. Sub dealers still have existing customers that they send parts and PPE out too and no longer will be able to so it will hit them aswell.

 

 

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[Barry_Skyland]

Has this not been stihls policy for years?,as a stihl dealer ive signed a dealer agreement,do,s and donts etc,ie dealer handovers,its just nobody has stuck to it,ourselves included,

 

Hi Pike

I mean to existing known professional users on machinery. That 'known professional user' is what this is all about, it no longer exists... Well from Monday

 

 

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[mendiplogs]

Hi Pike

I mean to existing known professional users on machinery. That 'known professional user' is what this is all about, it no longer exists... Well from Monday

 

 

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HI BARRY if a dealer im no names has £500k plus per year to lose then some will have to go to lawyers but stihl massive they will walk all over any dealer in the uk if a dealer win the day you then could still be messed around with stock getting to a dealer thats gone up to them thanks jon i can see only one win out of this the small sub dealer stihl lose a lot of uk sale but there big out fit there not worried about it jon

[Barry_Skyland]

HI BARRY if a dealer im no names has £500k plus per year to lose then some will have to go to lawyers but stihl massive they will walk all over any dealer in the uk if a dealer win the day you then could still be messed around with stock getting to a dealer thats gone up to them thanks jon i can see only one win out of this the small sub dealer stihl lose a lot of uk sale but there big out fit there not worried about it jon

 

Time will Jon.... But it's what they want and we all have to move on with mate.

 

 

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[Pat Ferrett]

Any word from the Arb Association ?

[WorcsWuss]

What I find a bit odd about this whole thing is, well, everything.

Stihl as a manufacturer exist solely to sell equipment.

It's pretty obvious to anyone with a functioning brain of any capacity that restricting the purchasing options their customers have will hit their volume.

They sell their goods (allegedly) to all their dealers at the same nett price, so why would they care how these dealers shift them?

They don't mind whether 1 million dealers sell 1 saw each or 1 dealer sells a million saws.

In restricting their most successful volume selling dealers they set themselves at an unfair disadvantage to other manufacturers who don't adopt this policy.

This isn't about protecting dealers, I'd be surprised of this has even come from Stihl all by themselves, it smells like Europe to me...... Such a half baked business decision doesn't feel like the brainchild of the worlds largest selling saw manufacturer. They didn't get there by making it difficult to buy their products.