Ferrari Mailing List: Re: In defense ( Brokers )

[Larry (l02turner]

Hey Fellippe,

    Unfortunately people get something in their heads and it wonât leave.  That 27.5 stuck in her head and to compound the problem, her âfriendâ told her 32 â no way of knowing the friends knowledge base.

 

    On top of that you have a woman who has lost her life time partner â possibly someone who took care of all of  the âmanlyâ things in their lives â paying bills, home and vehicle maintenance â so she feels lost and overwhelmed.  Actually, many woman who lose their long time husbands will buy a car about 1 year after the husband passes - without any help from family.  My mom did it, MIL and others we know also â I guess they want to know they can do something by themselves.  They usually get taken advantage of â I know my mom did at the Oldsmobile dealer â and we only heard about it after the fact.  But she was always very proud of herself for going to the dealer, picking out what she wanted and buying it â all by herself.  Like a rite of passage perhaps.

 

    Anyway â your Ferrari lady was being told things by all manner of people â some not having her best interest at heart.  Then you come along and all she hears is all the money youâll make â $1k isnât much for the work youâll have to do but she may not have any basis to know what is reasonable.  I find it amazing that she sold the car for a large loss and evidently refused to contact you to see if your higher offer was still available.   She really fixated on you as being a bad guy it seems, when all you did was try to help!

 

    But itâs over now and hopefully she wonât continue to bad-mouth you. 

 

Take care --

LarryT

 

From: Fellippe Galletta

Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:50 PM

To: Larry Turner

Cc: The FerrariList

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] In defense ( Brokers )

 

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] windstream.net> wrote:

In the mid 90's I sold a 308 GTB to a client who became some what of a friend.....at the time I re-call that the price was 27.5 and I told them that in my opinion if they took care of the car and properly maintained it they should never lose any money by owning that car.

Over a period of years the owner self maintained and may ( or may not have done a good job).

About 2 / 3 years ago I received the call that none of us like to hear, from his widow, he had died and she needed to sell the car.

I went to her home, the car was sitting in a garage, and not much of a garage. the wheels were blocked to keep it from rolling down hill out of the garage ( I never had the opportunity to see if there was a problem with the brakes, because the car could not be run.
The owner had taken the carbs off to re - build and then had gotten sick.

I suggested to the widow that we take the car to a shop ( any shop ) and have it put back together. She was adamant that the car not leave the premises.

At the time, I would guess that a really nice  308 GTB ( carb'd ) might have brought into the upper 30's. This car was at best, even forgetting about the carbs and brakes an 85' point ( a nice driver) car.

At the time, I had a buyer who would pay me ( as I re call ) 27, or 27.5 for the car ( as is ) I offered to make the deal work and told her I would do so for a $1000.00 commission.
She let me know very quickly what she thought of my offer, my character and my earlier statements about not losing money, that in fact she had been advised by a close friend to take no less than 32k.

Over a period of a few days we tried to communicate and I may have actually offered to have the customer go directly to her and not take any commission ( I am reluctant to say I definitely made that offer, but I am stupid enough that I probably did)
she refused the offers and told me that she needed the money and that I was being greedy and unfair.

A few days later I had a call from her daughter asking me why I was being "mean" to her mother and why was I trying to take advantage of her.

I decided to stop being mean and no longer tried to reach her.

Several months later she sold the car to a "friend" of mine for $16,000.00 his first call was to me to gloat. And then he sold the car for 25k.

In turn she has told people locally what a bad person I am, go figure.

 

She got what she deserved....I can't believe people are so dumb to not understand what is going on, what's fair and what's not.

Sorry to hear....no good deed goes unpunished.

FG

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