Ferrari Mailing List: Re: New Ferrari Classic Car Division

[LS (lashdeep]

Indeed, to an uneducated or impatient buyer, won't this "certification" be
enough to make an impulsive purchase? 

Who cares if it doesn't mean anything...the sticker will validate all
impulses.

At least, that's how today's entitled society thinks it works. Brian, you
should offer a Buxton Motorsports certification.

I'm going to offer one also. I will certify the fuel tank level and spare
tire inflation pressure...then present it in a leather bound cover.

LS
--- "Brian E. Buxton" <BrianBuxton [at] BuxtonMotorsports.com> wrote:

> What I don't get is piece of mind as to what?  What is to keep someone 
> from having their rare 308 "certified" and then going home and removing 
> original bits and pieces before selling it?  You have the cert to show 
> the "provenance" of the car, but it doesn't mean the car is in the same 
> condition 1 week down the road  What if it is wrecked and repainted 
> after the provenance?  Do you have to ge another cert for $3K?
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> Doug and Terri Anderson wrote:
> 
> >LS has a good point (again) and sez "It will offer uneducated and
> impatient 
> >buyers piece of mind. It's a sign of changing times I guess...why do
> the 
> >work, when someone else will do it for you?"
> >
> >ORrrrrr - Classiche is just another product.
> >
> >Not too long ago, the little old car maker in Marenello sat down with a
> 
> >bunch of folks and asked - how can we make more money?  The answer was
> - 
> >sell logo stickers and coffee cups and shirts and hats and jackets -
> and 
> >forbid everyone else.  Not to long after that, the income stream from
> that 
> >adventure outstripped the vehicle sales income.
> >
> >Actually, they took a lesson from the little old car firm in Stuttgart
> with 
> >the other prancing horse who came to the conclusion their logo could, 
> >should, maybe, might, make some extra money.  Lo and behold - anything 
> >aftermarket with the logo PORSCHE dried up UNLESS it had the factory 
> >blessing and lo and behold they made/are making a bundle.  Did you know
> that 
> >Ferrari now forbids the dealership network to sell certain goodies
> UNLESS 
> >they have purchased the proper shelving?  Yeah, the steel stuff to put
> the 
> >goodies on.  My my.
> >
> >As I read about the Ferrari Classiche division - they can either
> rebuild 
> >your car to factory specs AND/or certify your car as it now is to what
> it 
> >really is.  Even some chatter that to compete in big name shows thou
> shalt 
> >have said (trumpets braying) official Certificate.  Oh goody - another 
> >$3,000 just so I can show at Pebble.
> >
> >But is it because people are lazy and uneducated or do they really know
> the 
> >questions to ask?  Twenty years ago, "chicken coupe" Gull Wings, 212
> Inters 
> >and flogged race cars with pop riveted flares were resurrected but the 
> >downside was showing up at a concours with two cars and the same serial
> 
> >number.  heh heh
> >
> >So is it lazy and dumb or does society simply demand more - ?
> >
> >At one time Tiffany & Co would simply cert their diamonds as to caret
> weight 
> >and cut and clarity and color was defined as River, Double River or
> Triple 
> >River (what ever that means today) - - and of course their name on the 
> >receipt.  That was enough.  Now they supply a GIA diamond grading
> report 
> >along with their personal cert in a nice leather binder.  Along with
> their 
> >nifty robins egg blue lunch bag.
> >
> >So again - is it laziness or are their just better counterfeiters out
> there 
> >and since no one is an expert in everything, the public is simply
> scared and 
> >more demanding.  That's education enough.  We are not as gullible.
> >
> >Just some thoughts - I could be wrong.
> >
> >DOUG
> >(Excuse me please while I go hang my Van Gogh I got at a Princess
> Cruise 
> >auction for $9,000 - they said it as real and gave me their cert of 
> >authentication - and who need provenance any way - heh heh)
> >
> >
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