We should be getting the 599 in a week!

Thanks guys!

I also really hope everything turns out to be ok. As I said, given the chance to spec a new one, I'd basically make it identical. It isn't always easy to find the "perfect" second hand car in terms of spec...we came pretty close here.

*fingers crossed*

 

Btw...look at how much better the 599 looks with the exhaust area painted (IMO) --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH8WcpRNRK8&NR=1

 

Very nice! The whole diffuser (including the exhaust area) is one piece. A CF one would be very nice. Do you know where to find it and the price?

BTW...I remember now...you're the one that test drove all 3 cars in the line-up and opted for the 599 in the end What spec did you choose in the end?

Thanks. I hope so...

The car has been regularly serviced and driven well (we're told) so I don't see why it shouldn't. Knock on wood.

 

Very nice! Keep us updated.

 

Just noticed that the car did the 20K km service in Sept. 07...so it should have done the next service in Sept 08 but looking at the guarantee book it looks like it didn't

...need to phone the seller (who doesn't seem to be very easy to reach at times)

We don't want to go to Germany just to find out that the car is a POS.

S#!t I'm nervous....

 

We did not go.

Plane tickets and a lot of time were wasted.

Things were worse than they seemed.

Ultimately there were a number of things that simply added up and made us loose all the confidence in buying the car:

1) The car was advertised for 29K kilometers (and the price negotiated accordingly). 2/3 days ago he (the owner's "best friend" who's selling the car on his behalf) sent us a pic of the dashboard showing 35K kilometers. We were left disappointed but decided to go ahead anyway. Yesterday morning he phoned telling us that the car might actually have a few thousand more.

2) The car is 4 moths late for a service and has BEEN DRIVEN a few thousand KM past its timely service deadline. The seller tried to say that perhaps...maybe...possibly the car was serviced but they forgot to update the guarantee book! WTF?! Are you serious!?

3) The seller (the owner's "best friend") always had a hard time reaching the owner and actually hasn't seen the car in months...and he has never been very convincing in his description of how perfect the car really is.

4) We asked the seller to prepare the final contract as well as get a recommendation letter from his bank (like my father did from his) but he never did either of those things.

5) We asked him to get the Certificate of European Conformity (or something like that) which can take a few days to get and is needed to register a car in Monaco. Again, he didn't do it and said that he would send it to us by mail "later".

6) The seller only replied to a 1/3 of the emails and the only thing he truly did was booking us a hotel...

7) Yesterday my father phoned him telling him our motivations for not coming and he tells him in a very disappointed tone (understandably) that the car is now there and the he had a local garage do a PPI. What!? We were supposed to go to Ferrari Wurzburg to do the PPI and we were supposed to go together!! I'm sorry but this whole thing just doesn't sound right.


Ultimately we had a feeling that we were trying much harder to buy the car than he was trying to sell it to us. We even faxed him the bank drafts so he could check them...but what did he do?

I'm not sure to what extent it was the seller's fault as apparently he often had a hard time getting in touch with the owner (his friend). Furthermore there was the language barrier as his English was very poor and our German non-existent.

At the end of the day all these things (and probably a few other I forgot to mention) added up to a point of no return. We are by no means prepared to spend so much money with so many doubts. Things simply didn't add up.

Needless to say that I'm absolutely gutted I thought that today was going to be one of those days I'd remember for all my life...

We'll have to see where to go from here. Go hunting for another another one? Maybe...I don't know. This experience left us truly demoralized. So much time, energy, hopes and dreams wasted.

At this point we are tempted to consider ordering a new one. If one is to spend so much money you might as well put an extra effort and get the car how you really want it. With the current economic climate I'm sure that waiting lists are fairly reasonable.

We'll see. My father is going away for business trip next week so we'll have to take a look at the various options later.

Regards,
Carlo

 

I suspected that someone would eventually say that. Oh well...

 

Here are some of the documents of the car we were sent (as you can see the guarantee is missing the service)...I blacked out the owner's name for a matter of respect:
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Our wasted flights (my father was to go on Thursday and I had to come Friday to Frankfurt for the return trip once we were sure that the deal was closed. I couldn't come with my father due to my studies):

Btw...my return dates were chosen randomly as the ticket was cheaper with a return flight for some reason...
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Yes...no problem. I'll email it to you when I get home.

 

Yes Mark...things started getting a little awkward. Perhaps we should have seen it before but we were determined to get the car. Things could have taken a nasty turn.

Maybe later I'll post some more documents/pictures or even some excerpts of email conversations so that you get a better picture.

Here is the original add from mobile.de (that got taken off today for some reason):

As you can see the car was advertised for 29000km...later we were sent a pic which showed 35K km (I'll post it later)...and yesterday we were told there could be more...
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