Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Maranello 575

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

Maybe The Stable doesn't own the car, maybe it is (and has been) on  
consignment with them.  They get paid a commission if they find a buyer and  
the 
seller can still try to find a buyer on his own.  That way the seller  can be 
offering it to buyers and meanwhile The Stable places an ad for it hoping  to 
get a 
buyer for that particular car to get a commission or at least to  generate 
traffic to their shop to buy something else.  Happens a lot,  especially with 
high value items.  
 
I agree with the feeling that it is an entire waste to buy a car like that  
and not drive it.  Even if it ever became "collectible" (which it won't  
because there just are too many of them), driving the car is infinitely better  
for 
the long term health of the car than letting it sit and rot.  Not to  mention 
a hell of a lot more fun!
 
I just can't imagine telling my grandchildren "Boy oh boy, you should have  
seen all of the cool cars that I have owned!"  Grandchildren "Wow, grandpa,  
that sounds great!  They must have been fun to drive!  What were they  like to 
drive?"  Grandpa, "Er, um, hey have you guys done your homework  yet?"
 
What a waste!
 
John
 
 
In a message dated 2/7/2008 3:05:02 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
l02turner [at] comcast.net writes:

Hi  Dan,
Thx for the comments -  it's been a long time since I placed any  ads in R&T 
but I think the lead time was at *least* 6 weeks - closer  to 8 IIRC.  Maybe 
R&T has some stock photos for The Stable since  they buy at least 2 full 
color pages each issue - and silver is a pretty  common color.  Of course, 
the world of electronics has increased the  speed of everything - maybe they 
have a new procedure in place to allow  quicker turnaround of display ads 
with photos?

So, if the Stable  gave the owner the 155 he wanted they'll make 20k from 
it -- not  bad.  ;-)  of course there overhead is probably pretty  high.

The timing *does* seem suspicious -

Larry T (66 MGB, 74  911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message  ----- 
From: "Dan Warlick" <edwf430 [at] bellsouth.net>
To: "LarryT"  <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent:  Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Maranello  575


> Larry,
> I saw that in there and strangely enough I  was offered the car about 3 
> weeks ago. I could not bring myself to  pay more than 148k for the car. I 
> of course would have bought it for  inventory but the owner wanted 155k. I 
> guess the stable stepped up.  The only thing I find odd is that I would 
> think that R&T's ad art  would have had to have been submitted long before 
> the said 3 weeks  ago time frame. It truly is a nice car though.
> ----- Original Message  ----- 
> From: "LarryT" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> To:  "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] bellsouth.net>
> Cc: "The FerrariList"  <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:14  PM
> Subject: [Ferrari] Maranello 575
>
>
>>I find  this really odd - in the back of R&T there's a For Sale section -  
>>one
>> regular is "The Stable" in NJ - this time they  have a '03 Ferrari 575M - 
>> in
>> great condition - with  only 762 miles!!  Who buys a car like that and 
>>  drives
>> it a little more than 152 miles driven per *year* on  average!!
>>
>> Maybe they tought it ws going to be an  investment - (*Ha!* it's going for
>> $175k)  I'll bet the cost  of paying insurance, taxes, maintanence, etc 
>> just
>> to  keep it sitting in the garage!  Just seems to be the ultimate in  
>> waste.
>> Why buy it in the 1st place?  Seems so  silly -
>> Am I missing something?  Do some people buy these  wonderful machines and 
>> use
>> them as long-term lawn  ornaments?
>>







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