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Quality Vs. Price ……

John Ruskin Paying a little extra for quality equipment can lead to significant savings in the long run – quality equipment doesn’t cost, it pays!

Don’t just take our word for it.

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) was one of the greatest figures of the Victorian age, poet, artist, conservationist and social revolutionary. Living and working during the industrial revolution, he gained an insight into Britain’s rapidly expanding industries and burgeoning manufacturing base of the time. His wry observation on the issues of quality still holds true today.

"It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do!

The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot, it cannot be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell for a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this mans lawful prey".

The original purchase price difference of grounds maintenance equipment may reflect as only 1% of the true cost of ownership overtime. Whereas durability, downtime, back-up support, fuel defiantly, productivity and residual values will make huge differences to the true cost of ownership. As our chart illustrates.

Our reputation is built on quality products.

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