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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder
This is the original intent of my post. The tractor/mower/snowblower you buy at the big box stores is not the same item you would buy at the local JD/Ariens dealer. For example you can put an Ariens 824 snowblower bought at HD side by side with one bought at an Ariens dealer and although they look the same they aren't. The most notable difference is the gearbox that drives the auger. In the bigbox store machines those are made of aluminum. The other one will be made of cast iron or steel. This and other unnoticeable cosmetic and mechanical changes make the machine less expensive to manufacture and therefore less expensive to buy at the BB stores.
I'm not making this up, folks. I've seen it time and time again on mowers, tractors, snowblowers and appliances.
BT
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Originally Posted by MarkinNH
When I was shopping for a new lawn mower just a couple of months ago, JD was one of the brands I was seriously considering. I was specifically told by the local JD dealership that the JD mowers sold at Lowes, HD, Sears etc. are the VERY SAME mower that they sell. In fact at the time, the sale prices at the big box stores and the JD dealership matched up exactly with the JD website.So as far as John Deere making 2 differant versions of the same models, I say HOGWASH.
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How do you explain that ?
Personally, I'm sticking with HOGWASH