Ferrari Mailing List: Re: SFC: Watches...NFC

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We are alredy doing it.

Like Chop Suey, Fortune Cookies are an American creation - so the Chinease 

could make the Faux Fortune cookie with Real lottery numbers insude.

Seem we can't win.

In the 60's the Japanease fishing fleet was working off the coast of Mexico, 

they could catch the fish, send it back to Japan,

Process it, ship it back to Mexico and sell it for less than the Mexican 

fish product.

Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Ken Rentiers" <rentiers [at] mac.com>

To: "Stephen" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SFC: Watches...

We need to fight back. America must begin to manufacture cheap
chopstix and faux fortune cookies with fake lottery numbers inside!

On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:28 AM, red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

Hey Mike: What are the watches going for over in China? I paid $109
usd each?for both my Panerai Scuderia Ferrari and the Rolex Daytona.
The Breitling Navitimer is real, and a tad more expensive. You can
pick one up for about $1.5K on eBay.

Forza, yer pal Bubba

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SFC: Watches...

OK

I'll have to keep an eye out for the shirts next time I can go
shopping...  If I see some I'll pick them up.  Probably won't find
time
until next Saturday in Shanghai...

To answer some questions:

They all drive on the right, just like Mericans...  Though honestly
they
are helter-skelter everywhere with a very passive aggressive lane
changing style.  Lots of horn usage to let folks know you are there,
signaling of lane changes is only after you are mid-way through the
change.  I would not hesitate to try driving here, its pretty
straightforward and there is a courtesy here in the driving also
though
its really a mutual "I will not hit you".    This place is nothing
like
India, much more modern and even seems a bit less crowded, though it
probably is not, I have yet to see a single moped with a family of
four
or more on it.  Imagine an entire country of bad drivers, kinda like
Texas, but with more consistency and discipline.  There was a
Bentley at
the hotel last night that was RHD and I have seen several RHD cars,
all
from Hong Kong I would guess, which I can see from the Window of my
hotel room.  Half the cabs here are Volkswagen Santana's (No US
equivalent I think, maybe Passat?) or a Chinese clone of the Audi 100.
And I mean clone... Wow.  Lots of Kia's and Hyundais also.

As for customs?  Would they really care?  I would think they'd be
upset
if I were selling them or something stateside.   Will have to keep an
eye out for that I guess.  I think they get upset if you bring in more
than $1000 of stuff...

I got my son a little airsoft gun, that looks way too realistic...
With
that one, I may have some difficulties going through the airport and
shipping it FedEx might make more sense :)  No need to get body
tackled
by 20 Chinese security guys.

Oh and one last thing!

No one has made me take off my shoes for an airplane flight here.

BR,
Mike

red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

Hey cLyDe: Say it ain't so, cLyDe. An owner of a Ferrari 512 TR
actually

trying to hustle a cheap Chinese kn
ock-off Ferrari Team shirt (size large)? <g>

I thought that only the Ferrari wanna-be's like me?who drive GT4s
would stoop

so low. Wait til FOC hears about this.

Have you no shame, sir?

Next time that you're flying into NYC, you should hit Times Square.
I've got a

business associate there named Guido, who has a suitcase full of
genuine?Rolex
Daytona watches that you might want to re-sell to some of your more
gulliable
passengers. just tell him, "Bubba sent me," and be sure to wear your
uniform.
He'll know who you are.

Just tell?the 'marks' in coach?that you bought them from Bernie
Madoff when he

was trying to post bond. And cLyDe. you can forget the First Class.
They'll
never believe you.

Always trying to help a fellow Tifosi, yer pal Shitbox Bubba

-----Original Message-----
From: cLyDe:
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SFC: Watches...

Get me one as well
Size large

Clyde
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave Craig" <dave.craig [at] sbcglobal.net>

Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:15:29
To: clyde<clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>
Cc: 'The FerrariList'<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] SFC:  Watches...

Mike,

One thing that I got in a market in Taiwan (should be virtually the
same in
China) was a Ferrari Team shirt knock off.  Correct in almost every
detail
except for very cheaply made.  It is an awesome shirt to wear to F1
races or
even to club events and I only gave $8 for it.  I highly recommend
getting
one.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fleischer [mailto:themightytoe [at] gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:55 AM
To: Dave Craig
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] SFC: Watches...

OK

I hate to do this to the Ferrari list again...  I never read the
threads, but on watches?  I sorted out what I alreeady bought...

What is a good watch?  I am in China right now and it is
astonishing how
many knock-off watches they have.  So I picked some up as fun gifts
for

friends etc...  So far I have a Tag, a couple or Rolex's, a
Breitling,
and a Gucci watch for my wife...   But there are a ton of other
brands
that look really nice but I have no idea if they are decent brands or
not :).    Not certain if I will go back out and get more or not but
wow.  They even have the sapphire scratch proof covers on them.
Clearly
not Gold materials, nor the quality movements inside either, though
the
Rorex's are perpetual movements.  China is kinda fun and makes a real
mockery of branding.

Lots of Ferrari junk here too, some watches, (also Porsche design
watches galore), some lighters...  (man it is entertaining though to
talk them down to as low a price as they will go and then walk
away, do
the same at 4 other vendors and then pick the best price, we need to
have haggling in the US for everything).  Also got an excellent tea
set,
Tea in the US just sucks the hiney compared to the stuff over here.

Wow.  Recorded the proper procedure for making tea in China as the
tea
shop owner made us sit and have a tea drinking ceremony with him
after I
bought the tea sets.  Good stuff.

The same Lamborghini's and 599GTB have been in front of the hotel for
the past week or so, owners are friends with the hotel owner.  And
the
599GTB looks like your ugly date at the prom next to the LP640 and
Gallardo, I can't fathom how Ferrari can sell these to anyone if they
were viewed side by side, performance between them is probably
ludicrous
in both cases.

Construction here is everywhere, tons of people, nice cars,
everything
is about 1/3rd the price of US version (cars are about 2.5X).  We may
have a major recession in the US, but you can't tell it over here.
Also
most popular American car manufacturer here?  Buick!...  WTF

If you travel to Shenzhen, The Intercontinental is the Hotel...  At
$140
a night, I have not stayed in a nicer place (actually for about 5x
that
ammount I have not stayed at a nicer place), huge r

oom, fantastic

service, infinity edge 6 foot by 5 foot bath tub with a view...
Restaurants, a hotel with man made beach.  Working conditions here
are
not wonderful, US engineering facilities are a quantum leap better,
but
the US facilities here are nice also, just the Chinese firms do it
differently.

And no more massage girls following me home :)

BR,
Mike

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Re: SFC: Watches...NFC	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Stephen Sherman (shermanwildblue.net)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:35:49 -0700 (PDT)