Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Value of Ferrari Luggage for 512TR

[Dennis Liu (bigheaddennis]

Howdy, Britt! 

Great topic.  I've always wondered about the fallacy of the custom fitted
luggage.  Aside from a few cocoa puffs like SteveJ, who really uses these
things?  One pays an arm and a leg for them, but using them results in
scuffing and wear (that's what luggage is for), that invariably diminishes
the value of the luggage.  So is it worth a few hundred dollars in
depreciation to use heavy, bulky leather luggage (about which you will
inevitably worry)?  Or just continue to use the standard ballastic nylon
overnight bags that you already use and about which you must give not a whit
of concern?

Alternatively, you buy the luggage, wrap it in plastic and store it in the
dark confines of the back closet, never to see the light of day until you
sell the car and then the luggage.  Even assuming that you can sell it for
the price you paid, is that worth the opportunity cost of your investment
(e.g., what you would have earned had you invested it elsewhere), solely for
the self-satisfaction of knowing that you are in possession of the matching
luggage?

I guess this is why I'm also mystified of the totemic-allure of sports
memorabilia (though, admittedly, had I there wherewithal, I too would own a
Senna helmet).

Vty,

--Dennis

(with a complete 355 tool kit wrapped in plastic in the closet, and an
actual, functional, self-assembled tool kit in a canvas bag in the trunk)


-----Original Message-----
From: Britt2Asa [at] aol.com [mailto:Britt2Asa [at] aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:27 AM
To: Dennis Liu
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Value of Ferrari Luggage for 512TR

HI Guys,

In my search for the right 512TR I have been offered a set of "like new" 
512TR luggage, fully embossed and still in there drawstring bags. Does
anyone have 
an opinion as to what this is worth? Whats its value roughly in the states
in 
dollars?

I may not use it but if I buy it I want to make sure I am not overpaying in 
case I want to sell it again.

Britt

BR in the UK
1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
1980 400i (RHD 72,000 miles)
Searching for the right 512TR
2003 BMW 530d
1991 Alfa Spider S4   
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