Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Need group wisdom on pricing for 2007 F430

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

I'll agree with you there, Brian.

My favorite scotch (currently) is $600 a bottle.

and if you came to my house and had a drink, you'd never know
that it wasn't $50 a bottle scotch.

If I hear "Wow, this is really good".

My reply is general "Yeah, I thought you might like it".

If you have to jump up and down and inform your guest that the
bottle you just polished off cost $X - what's the point?

Still looking for that genuine 1963 bottle of Macallan.

That's likely only $2,000 or so though.

(Folks, I can drive a Chevy if need be, but life is just too
damn short to drink cheap booze!)

On 2/7/2010 2:32 PM, Brian E. Buxton wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree about people wanting to show off their  
> investments / acquisitions. How often do you see anyone walking down  
> the street with a Picasso, a box of $25,000 cigars or a $10,000 bottle  
> of champagne?  Quite the opposite. They buy those items for  
> themselves. And they usually keep their purcases very quiet.  Hence  
> all of the anonymous buyers at high end auctions of all types. The  
> items bought satisfy a totally different need other than flash and  
> recognition. And just has been pointed out - would the average person  
> even recognize a $75,000 watch, or a collectible piece of art?
> 
> Brian E. Buxton
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> On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] 
> gmail.com 
>  > wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Mike Fleischer  
>> <themightytoe [at] gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Ah man it looked nice and I got it with about 4 other watches, I  
>>> don't
>>> even wear a watch unless I go out all fancy, and that almost never
>>> happens :).  Besides who would even recognize a Patek Phillipe?  A  
>>> Rolex
>>> sure...  Heck I had no idea until after buying it and then I looked  
>>> it
>>> up online...
>>>
>>> But to answer your question...  The guy who blew a million on a  
>>> piece of
>>> jewelry, clearly not as smart as the guy who saved $999,940.00 for
>>> something that might actually be useful.
>>>
>>
>> The world of high end watches is very fascinating to me as I do not  
>> quite
>> understand it.
>>
>> I understand the world of $upreme cars and $upreme audiophile sound  
>> systems
>> very well, two drug habits that have no cure....and should have no  
>> cure :)
>>
>> But watches I find harder to get especially once you get past the  
>> $10k mark
>> or so. The more "high end" the watch, often times the less flashy  
>> and more
>> discreet (like Patek Phillipes). A friend of mine (former lister who  
>> will
>> remain nameless!) told me he took off his buddy's $75k watch at a  
>> bar and
>> realized he forgot to put it back on after he left. He came running  
>> back
>> about 15-20 minutes afterwards and it was still there! He said if it  
>> was a
>> $3k Rolex it would have been gone...lol.
>>
>> I try to get into the mind of these guys....they really seem to be  
>> into the
>> workings of the watch, the craftsmanship, some of the same things some
>> Ferrari enthusiasts are into about Ferraris. To a certain point  
>> that's fine
>> but when you get to serious money watches, I can't imagine you'd be  
>> buying
>> them without some sense of wanting to show them off so at some point  
>> that
>> has to come into play. And then it would be somewhat hypocritical  
>> because
>> that's what their beef is against expensive Rolexes and Tag Heuers.
>>
>> If you really have all the money in the world then maybe these are  
>> worthy
>> acquisitions, but otherwise hard to rationalize, IMHO.
>>
>> FG
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