Ferrari 360 buying tips? And unbelievable dealer!

[Tredders]

I am looking at stepping up to a 360 spider, land was looking to see if anyone had any good advice, I have been getting all the history where I can, although see mail below from a rather bizarre dealer!


Hi Paul

We don’t sell £60000.00 cars by e-mail sorry we can't help you.

Kind regards
Rob

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Original Message-----
From:
Sent: 27 August 2010 10:17
To:
Subject: Re: 'FERRARI 360 SPIDER 2DR' at PistonHeads.com

Rob to clarify I did mean e mail.

Sent from my iPad

On 27 Aug 2010, at 10:01
wrote:

Hi Paul

I would surest that you come and look at the history for your self, and
yopu
can formulate your own conclusion.

Kind regards
Rob

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Original Message-----
From:
Sent: 26 August 2010 19:52
To:
Subject: RE: 'FERRARI 360 SPIDER 2DR' at PistonHeads.com

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1941744.htm

Hello, I am looking to buy a 360 spider, I currently have a Ferrari, and I
am with the specialist who services this on Saturday. If you could mail me
all the details of the services I can run through them with the person who
knows about these things! I know you have the dates but any details would
be
useful. Also any other information that may help, as I have a short list
of
3 at the moment. Many thanks paul

Edited by Garlick on Friday 27th August 15:13

[paulmurr]

He's making sure that you're not a kid taking the piss.

[Garlick]

You do realise that your e-mail address has been publicised to 3.2 million people?

[MonkeyBusiness]

paulmurr said:

He's making sure that you're not a kid taking the piss.

Even if he is he could be a bit more professional....and get himself a decent email address instead of trading out of a Tiscali one.

[mnkiboy]

To be fair, if they're going to advertise a car on the net, you'd think they'd be happy to send extra info over e-mail.

Saves travelling 300 miles to see a car, only to find out it's missing a big chuck of history.

[louismchuge]

st, now how do I turn on that spam filter...

[plg]

He is filtering a serious buyer / qualifying the opportunity - although a little tersely..

Pick up the phone!

Edited by plg on Friday 27th August 14:37

[anonymous-user]

mnkiboy said:

To be fair, if they're going to advertise a car on the net, you'd think they'd be happy to send extra info over e-mail.

Saves travelling 300 miles to see a car, only to find out it's missing a big chuck of history.

Exactly. Some on here seem to think people aren't serious if they only email.

[plg]

Dave_ST220 said:

mnkiboy said:

To be fair, if they're going to advertise a car on the net, you'd think they'd be happy to send extra info over e-mail.

Saves travelling 300 miles to see a car, only to find out it's missing a big chuck of history.

Exactly. Some on here seem to think people aren't serious if they only email.

It's true - but a buyer would take you eve more seriously if you follow up the email with a call.

[Clark]

inkiboo said:

The obvious reply is that you don't buy £60k cars from someone with an @tiscali.co.uk email address

Has to be done!

[AndrewW-G]

Having looked at their stocklist, I'd suggest that the sales person who sent the email is more used to selling £2-10k family cars than Ferraris. . . . . . .it's a very different world and it doesnt pay to be rude to a potential customer, IMHO dealer should already have the service info on his PC and it should have been as simple casee of copy and pasting it into a reply

[anonymous-user]

plg said:

Dave_ST220 said:

mnkiboy said:

To be fair, if they're going to advertise a car on the net, you'd think they'd be happy to send extra info over e-mail.

Saves travelling 300 miles to see a car, only to find out it's missing a big chuck of history.

Exactly. Some on here seem to think people aren't serious if they only email.

It's true - but a buyer would take you eve more seriously if you follow up the email with a call.

But the guy above has basically said sod off?!. If you advertise on the internet be prepared to give details out via the internet.

[plg]

It's also a pretty crappy PH advert (lack of detail) for selling a 60k car!

[anonymous-user]

Clark said:

inkiboo said:

The obvious reply is that you don't buy £60k cars from someone with an @tiscali.co.uk email address

Has to be done!

+1 Do it!

[mnkiboy]

Tredders said:

Hi Paul

We don’t sell £60000.00 cars by e-mail sorry we can't help you.

Kind regards
Rob

I wonder why he felt the need to include the pence at the end of the price there. Perhaps he would be happy to sell £59999.73 cars over e-mail, but you've just stepped over the threshold.

[Marf]

Garlick said:

You do realise that your e-mail address has been publicised to 3.2 million people?

3.2 million page views in 4 minutes? Wow, PH really is buzzing these days

[mnkiboy]

Dave_ST220 said:

plg said:

Dave_ST220 said:

mnkiboy said:

To be fair, if they're going to advertise a car on the net, you'd think they'd be happy to send extra info over e-mail.

Saves travelling 300 miles to see a car, only to find out it's missing a big chuck of history.

Exactly. Some on here seem to think people aren't serious if they only email.

It's true - but a buyer would take you eve more seriously if you follow up the email with a call.

But the guy above has basically said sod off?!. If you advertise on the internet be prepared to give details out via the internet.

If the guy had said "Give us a ring and we'll discuss", or "Give me your number and i'll ring you" then it would be a non event.

Make sure you send a photo of your new 360 to them when you get it, just so they can see the sale they missed out on. And to make the guy a bit jealous of your Ferrari!

[Jasandjules]

I guess the reply is that you are not too keen on purchasing a 60k car from a person who uses a Tiscali account but if they have an e-mail account then I'd expect them to be able to deal through it.

And furthermore that as a person who has 60k to spend on a car, you don't actually have a day to waste travelling up the country to view a car which then has little/no history, as that would be a pure waste of your time and effort, notwithstanding the fact that you want this information today so that you can provide to your expert to ensure that the car is worth travelling to view....

[Garlick]

Marf said:

Garlick said:

You do realise that your e-mail address has been publicised to 3.2 million people?

3.2 million page views in 4 minutes? Wow, PH really is buzzing these days

I was only thinking of his poor spam filter.

[anonymous-user]

That's actually pretty rude. Imagine if you brought a car from this character and then have to claim something on warranty?