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Thomas
| | Posted on Monday, January 22, 2001 - 11:13 pm: | |
Hello Fellow Contributors,
Wow, what a wonderful mistake I made in finding this site, so please indulge me while I take a moment to run an idea by you all.
I am with Ameristar Capital Wholesale, very soon our company will be providing Euro spec Ferraris at deep discounts to their brethren, Ameri spec Ferraris. I would like to know your opinion of our soon to be offered service and what you like and perhaps where you feel we may fall short of your expectations.
I have no idea what percentage of Ferrari enthusiasts are aware of the fact that todays difference between a US version and the Euro version Ferrari is almost nil, the Ferraris of 1996 till today are all nearly "world cars".
With this in mind, and willing to offer to proof to anyone that is interested, please allow me pose this example:
Let us say that your in the market for an F355 Spider. You contact us and we propose the following car. We offer you a 1999 F355 Spider, with F1 gears, one owner, Red and black or any acceptable color of your choice, 5ooo miles, service history, books and records, and no stories. The price would be $149,000, for lack of a better expression, this would be exactly what you would expect of a properly maintained and well cared for Ferrari. It has an Expired warranty, past the 2 year warranty date ( not that Ferrari of N. A. would honor it anyway ). The car also receives a full pre purchase inspection at an authorized Ferrari Dealer in Europe. We then contract with you the buyer for the purchase of this car, as described above.
Lets then say that the car then arrives in America, purchased by our company with our company money on your behalf. Prior to that, you the buyer, would place your $149,000 into an escrow account. Upon arrival of the car in America you are able to inspect the car and have an authorized or Independent Ferrari service center inspect the car.
After the inspection is completed and the car passes muster, the escrow company then releases to our company half, or $75,000. The car is then converted to US specs ( and believe me having personally done this since 1978, there is very little to do to these cars now days to make them fully comply with DOT and EPA standards ). The car in now fully serviceable at any Ferrari Service center.
Within approx. 60 days after arriving in the USA, the car receives the DOT and EPA releases and the car is Titled in one of the 50 States, in the name of you the buyer. At that point the rest of the money is released to our company.
We then shake hands and say good bye. I then go about helping additional Ferrari lovers and you drive away into the sunset, enjoying your new car (with a fatter wallet to boot), singing our praises and telling your friends. Ok, not so fast, I know what your saying, "the devil is in the details". Which is true. But having done this hundreds of times already, its really just about as simple as mentioned above.
This proposal, from our point of view, is very do-able. But what would your thoughts be? What would your concerns be? Please don't hesitate to post your ideas or comments, and e-mail me if you have any further questions.
Thanks for the time,
J. Thomas Schuesler
Ameristar Capital Wholesale
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