Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Check out the FAQs from Ferrari of Denver

[ken rentiers (rentiers]

Hell Dennis; if someone can how  explain their rights supersede those  
of the Ferrari dealer, maybe they also can explain to me their  
"right" to free health care? Folks used to think they had a right to  
have all their cotton picked free too! Now they just want their  
hemorrhoids picked free.

"Yas, Massa, Don' whip me no mo', Miz Hillary!"

ken

On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Dennis Liu wrote:

> <can't...restrain...myself...>
>
> Tell me, Rob, or Tom.
>
> Why is it "greedy" for a dealer to sell a new Ferrari for whatever  
> people
> will pay for it?
>
> Let me ask this question - assume that Ferrari did not announce any  
> prices.
> No MSRP.
>
> Instead, Ferrari allowed each dealer to sell their allocations at  
> whatever
> the market would bear.  Say that each dealer, when it received a  
> car, would
> auction it off.
>
> Would that be greedy?
>
> Do you really think that the dealer ought to be obligated to sell  
> their
> precious few allocated new Ferraris to any guy off the street, and  
> then that
> lucky guy can auction it off and keep the $50k difference?  Why  
> should that
> $50k NOT go to th dealer?  Is it some inherent right of the guy off  
> the
> street?
>
> Ah, might you say, did that guy "earn" that right by getting on a  
> list?  So,
> simply by virtue of waiting a few years, I've *earned* the right to  
> the $50k
> profit, instead of the dealer?
>
> Please.  Stop the hypocrisy.  When we have an asset to sell,  
> whether it's a
> car, a house, a guitar, an electric toothbrush, we want to obtain the
> maximum price that people will pay.  Whether we sell it at auction  
> or not,
> if we have multiple parties that want to buy it, we'll sell it to  
> the one
> that will pay the most money (and don't kid yourself otherwise).
>
> Tom, if you were selling your house, listed it for $500k, and you  
> woke up
> and had five guys lined up outside your door that wanted to buy, do  
> you take
> $500k to the guy who happened to be first in line, or do you entertain
> offers from all give guys?
>
> So why the heck is that different from the Ferrari dealer?
>
> Vty,
>
> --Dennis