Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Rip off

[George (ygpz4re]

This does not surprise me at all.  I was taking our quartz watches to a place which charged about $40-50 for the battery replacement.  A lot for a battery?  Yup, but they also did the pressure testing and gave it a 5 year warranty.  So I didn't think that was too bad.  (Tag wanted multiple times that just for the battery and pressure test - no warranty)

But recently, I took two of our Tags for batteries.  Oh, for the Tag, it's now $165.  Ummm... Hard NO.  Broke out the watch tool kit my wife gave me for Christmas several years ago and replaced those batteries myself.  Can't do the pressure testing, but we're not diving with them anyway, they almost never get wet (even when it's raining outside).

I have one watch (not a Tag) currently needing a battery (and it's still inside the 5 year warranty window), so I'll see what they say about that when I bring it to them.  Hmmmm....

gp

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From: Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 7:24 AM
To: George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Rip off

 

Switching topics slightly, but if you think cars are bad, don't go digging into the watch world.  A friend of mine sent me this article recently.

https://perezcope.com/2021/08/08/panerai-in-house-movements-a-pam-of-worms/

To quote George Carlin, it's all bullshit.  Consumerism, and specifically the so called luxury end of the spectrum, is probably the biggest fraud ever pulled on humanity...

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 6:20 AM George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

Since Clyde brought up his daughter's need for bonnet struts on her Lexus, I also need boot lid struts on the '04 XK8.  So I searched Amazon (have also looked at Rock Auto...) and found several different manufacturers - Boxi, Lesjofors, A-Premium, YHTAuto, and more.

Any advice on how to choose what's good?  Or are they all pretty much the same?  I can pretty easily see some "good" ones being far better than other "good" ones....

Dad told me that he bought parts from a Jag dealer in Knoxville (and I have bought a couple of things there, which I couldn't find anywhere else), but they want about $180 - EACH - for these struts.  It's not a proprietary part, so no reason in the world to pay that crazy money for something as simple as a gas strut.

Anyway, appreciate inputs on how others make their choices on something like this....

Thanks!

gp

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