Скачать или смотреть The Dealer Said New Holland Couldn't Handle It He Was Wrong, and It Cost a Fortune to Find Out

Curtis Granger ran 1,200 acres of corn, wheat, and hay in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. When it was time to replace his combine, he walked into a dealership, mentioned the New Holland CR10, and got talked out of it. The salesman had concerns. Reliability, service network, resale value. He said it with the confidence of a man whose family had sold to Curtis's family for decades. Curtis trusted him. He bought the competitor machine instead. Two seasons later he was logging parts delays during peak harvest, watching separation losses climb in heavy corn, and running numbers on downtime costs that no serious commercial operation could absorb indefinitely. Meanwhile his neighbor, who bought the CR10 the same year, was cutting 14-hour days without a single unscheduled stop. This is a story about what it costs to take a competitor salesman's word for a competitor's product. It is a story about data, trust, and the kind of mistake that compounds across seasons until the spreadsheet forces an honest conversation. No fantasy. No drama invented. Just the numbers, the machine, and what actually happened when both were tested.