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It sounds like Scag wasn't doing well with this product, or wanted to get a competitive edge over similar products by cutting the price. I would not think that is an unreasonable thing for them to do.
You happened to buy the product before it took the price cut. Whether you were to return it or not, you lost that $1,000 in value. It is just the way the chips fell.
It is no different for the dealer. The machine has a market value that is $1,000 less than he can get for it on top of it being used. His purchase price before he marked it up to sell to you was not cut. The shipping, handling, storage, and sales effort the dealer made were expenses that he had to cover while making that sale. Now he has to do the same thing with it all over again to resell it. By selling a reduced price slightly used piece of equipment, it is reasonable to believe that buyer may have bought a brand new one instead, so he has to recover the same profit margin as he would if it were the new one.
It is just like buying a computer. You buy it, bring it home, and two months later the damn thing is slower than anything else you can buy for $200 less.
What will really be aweful is if the whole market is turning and the Turf Tiger price drops by $1,200 next week.
That price cut might be a sign of a particular machine having slower sales, but it might be the indicator of a bigger slow down.
I can't see that this has anything to do with Scag being unfair. I'm sure that they would have liked to keep that Tiger Cub price up there. You just got caught in their adjustment.
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