WARNING! BAD CAR! BAD DEALER! My Story!

Personally I think this is a field so loaded with land mines that if you don't get a PPI or take an expert with you (a PAID expert working for you), you are liable to get the large purple shaft. My car is a case in point. I bought it from Ferrari of Denver through a "broker". Car was a sterling example of deferred maintenance and oh by the way had been rear-ended, a fact we didn't know 'til much later. It's fine now- after years of work and straightening out by Grand Touring here in Maryland. I wouldn't LOOK at another Ferrari unless it had been vetted by them first. Sort of like buying a boat- don't fall in love, whatever you do, until after the sea trial, haulout, survey, and engine survey.

Hope you can find a Ferrari that you like and that treats you well. Even a good one will need a lot of expensive maintenance, so you really have to get the best one you can find.

 

geez:

* NEVER do marginal stuff over ebay - well known scams out there having to do with '2nd chance offers'.

* if flying somewhere to view a car, rent a car at the airport. This way, you have complete control over your transportation to view the car, and more importantly, control over your exit(no standing in rain, fights with 'bubba the car dick').

* on ebay: 1) no/bad feedback, 'NO DEAL' 2) fuzzy/bad/no pics, 'NO DEAL' 3) private auctions 'NO DEAL' 4) no warm fuzzy, 'NO DEAL'

 

Now thats the kind of seller I like to deal with someone that is willing to cooperate oh and by the way, he gave me an extra $500 discount cause he knows he's car will go to a good home and it did.

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Hi Mike,
Now,I must say,that doesn't happen very often to me....
You luky man!!!
Speedman

 

Yeah that's right...
I learned a lot on eBay the last 12 months...
Cars may be good or exellent for certain people(most of the time sellers),but not all the time to other people(most of the time....buyers).
That's why I like to listen to the sometimes crappy story of the seller,and I like to act a little dumb,just to ask questions,wich of course I know the answer,but to cross-check HIS answers....f.ex,I was told one time by the seller of a Porsche 928,that these cars also exist in biturbo versions....
And don't forget:some people thinks they know it all,but they are wrong,just because they THINK to know it all....
Speedman.
PS About eBay,here i Belgium,I know very very strange things happens every day....

 

Poor car.....I dunno what ever happened ...it was sent "to the dealer" but FoH, last I heard, never saw it....maybe they meant the auction, out on Rankin Road.....

 

Back on Ebay and now a private auction. Someone's gonna get scammed me thinks...

 

I could have Valeria walk across the street and check it out thru the back door.......

It'd be interesting to know what they had to do, to get the thing running!

Maybe they'll come back on here and talk to us about it....full disclosure and honesty being the best way to deal on these cars......

(selling 1977 308GTB with my other hand......)

There are no bad cars....short of concealed wreck damage..they just need a little love sometimes..

"The car doesn't know that it's expensive to fix, Alan.... it just knows that it's broken!!! It doesn't CARE that it's expensive to fix....."
JRV

 

DEAR DAVE, FIRST OF ALL AMERICAN AUTOSOMETHING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COLLECTOR MOTORS AND NEVER DID. SECONDLY, THE CAR (FERRARI) YOU WROTE ABOUT WAS FROM 10 YEARS AGO AND YOU PUFFED THE CARS CONDITION. NOT SURE WHERE YOU ARE/WERE GOING WITH THIS STORY! WE GIVE YOU A B FOR YOUR ESSAY, BUT YOUR MATERIAL IS A BIT SKEWED. OUR WEBSITE IS WWW.@#$%^&*()$@@@.COM OR PHONE NUMBER IS 28+++-+++-+++

 

Congratulations for bringing something up that no one remembers from over twelve years ago.

Who cares now?

 

Good question.

 

Completely agree. It was never on my radar but now it is.

 

Still must have an issue. 12 years later and responds in CAPS

 

well, ya know, some folks are still just discovering the internet, and the search function.

Probably just spotted this, remembers the incident, had to post, didn't realize how old the original thread was.

D

 

Yeah but wow. George W Bush was still president prior to his post. That seems like generations ago,,,,

 

Yeah, what’s that saying? Something about letting sleeping dogs lie.

 

Whatever the issue, we can definitely agree now, Bush's fault!

 

Maybe they still haven't sold the car and just figured out why, when this came up at the top of a Google search?

 

Wow...someone's off their meds and gone full retard!

 

This whole sad story only reinforces the benefits of FerrariChat when buying and selling a FCar. The few bad guys get strained out pretty early in the process.

 

Thanks, this comment made me laugh out loud in a public place.