Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Learn from my error...

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

Hans, I'm not worried about the pedigree of my funds.

I'm on a friendly enough basis with the IRS that when they
were looking for my ex-wife, they came hat-in-hand to me
for assistance in locating her.

No, not kidding.

On 2/2/2010 3:44 PM, Hans E. Hansen wrote:
> Oh, and PS:  Just a bit of warning if you want to go the
> cash route.  The police always showed up after such
> transactions asking questions about the customer.
> Any unusual behaviour, firearms present, any white
> powder found on the money or in the trade-in, etc.  In
> nearly all cases, we knew nothing (remember Sargent
> Shulze?) about the customer other than that supplied
> on the paperwork.
> 
> Hans.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> 
> wrote:
>> I was in the car business for many years.  Cash does not
>> impress - in fact it's a royal PITA.  IRS paperwork, counting
>> (usually several times with customer present to prevent
>> error), and security issues storing and getting to the bank.
>>
>> Nope.  We always preferred check - personal check OK
>> for local residents, cashier for people unknown to us, or
>> finance.  It really doesn't matter, but please:  No cash.
>>
>> As far as a simple offer .vs. check on the desk:  Again,
>> doesn't matter.  An offer is fine, and we almost never
>> had anybody back out of a signed offer.  It was as good
>> as done, as far as we were concerned.  Usually having
>> a guy slam a check on the desk was a tip off that he was
>> a jerk.
>>
>> Hans. (now out of the rat race....)
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you are serious, bring the IRS form with you for cash transactions
>>> greater than $10k.
>>>
>>> Then watch them shit.
>>>
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