erik m.
ArboristSite Lurker
Hello, This is my first post, but I have looked in here occasionally for a quite a while now.
Here is what prompts me to register and post. I came into a little free money and wanted to blow it on something fun. I wanted a Stihl MS 200. The rear handled version, not the top handled one. Given the limited amount of cutting I do I really have no need for a $600 saw. But need doesn't really matter here, I just want it.
When in high school and college I worked on a tree farm and really liked using the 020 (I think that was the number). Now I need a little saw to do some trimming work, and for cleaning up a little bit that has been blown down. And so I thought, even though the ms 200 is ridiculously priced at $629 I would just use some of that check I got in the mail and splurge on an upgrade to the ms 200.
Problem is the dealer wouldn't sell it to me. Said it was more saw than I need. Those saws are really for professionals he tells me. I thought he was confused and said that I was not wanting the top handled version. I wanted the rear one. Didn't matter, I really didn't need a professional saw like that. He pointed out that I could get three of some other models for that price. He also said for less money I could get a ms 260 pro, which in his opinion, was a better saw and would be more versatile. I said that may be but my dad has a 026 which I can conveniently use whenever I want, so I really don't need a 260. I just want a really light saw.
He just wouldn't budge. Kept trying to sell me something else. I pointed out how the catalog lists the ms 200 as a "for occasional use" saw. Didn't phase him.
Since he didn't have one in stock, and he couldn't order again until after the weekend, he said I should think about it over the weekend.
Now I am miffed and don't want to buy from him...
I appreciate that he was just trying to match the saw to my needs, but I think he could have warned me I was wasting my money and then sold me the saw. Sheesh.
What would cause someone to work so hard not to sell me a saw? Is there no profit in the ms 200 for the dealer? Is there some problem with the ms 200?
(Just for the record I am 37 years old, 5'11 and 175. I am in reasonably good shape. And, as I say, I have spent quite a few hours running chainsaws.)
Here is what prompts me to register and post. I came into a little free money and wanted to blow it on something fun. I wanted a Stihl MS 200. The rear handled version, not the top handled one. Given the limited amount of cutting I do I really have no need for a $600 saw. But need doesn't really matter here, I just want it.
When in high school and college I worked on a tree farm and really liked using the 020 (I think that was the number). Now I need a little saw to do some trimming work, and for cleaning up a little bit that has been blown down. And so I thought, even though the ms 200 is ridiculously priced at $629 I would just use some of that check I got in the mail and splurge on an upgrade to the ms 200.
Problem is the dealer wouldn't sell it to me. Said it was more saw than I need. Those saws are really for professionals he tells me. I thought he was confused and said that I was not wanting the top handled version. I wanted the rear one. Didn't matter, I really didn't need a professional saw like that. He pointed out that I could get three of some other models for that price. He also said for less money I could get a ms 260 pro, which in his opinion, was a better saw and would be more versatile. I said that may be but my dad has a 026 which I can conveniently use whenever I want, so I really don't need a 260. I just want a really light saw.
He just wouldn't budge. Kept trying to sell me something else. I pointed out how the catalog lists the ms 200 as a "for occasional use" saw. Didn't phase him.
Since he didn't have one in stock, and he couldn't order again until after the weekend, he said I should think about it over the weekend.
Now I am miffed and don't want to buy from him...
I appreciate that he was just trying to match the saw to my needs, but I think he could have warned me I was wasting my money and then sold me the saw. Sheesh.
What would cause someone to work so hard not to sell me a saw? Is there no profit in the ms 200 for the dealer? Is there some problem with the ms 200?
(Just for the record I am 37 years old, 5'11 and 175. I am in reasonably good shape. And, as I say, I have spent quite a few hours running chainsaws.)
