Automotive Excellence Motors Misrepresented the car he was selling; cost me $1,000 to fix San Diego California

Cornelius sent me the same drivel by email asking what it would take to have me remove the report. Here is my complete email response to him. If anyone deals with this dealership, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Wow. It is hard to know where to start to correct all of the factual errors in your email.

I want to be direct and to the point on this matter, I didn't know that Mr. Ogburn posted this information till I just happened to google the company name and saw this listing.

Around late Feburary Mr. David W Ogburn contacted me about a Ferrari that we had on Ebay for sale. The vehicle was a 10 out of 10 Ferrari that we purchased from BMW Mini of Escondido. The previous owner had the vehicle serviced at San Diego Ferrari so we were prevy to obtaining all the service history of this very exspensive vehicle. We had the vehicle priced very aggressive but Mr. Ogburn felt that due to him having the vehicle inspected and purchasing a plan ticket that we should negotiate further to compensate for his now out of pocket exspenses.

After days of going back and forth Mr. Ogburn booked a flight to come to San Diego to view the 2006 Ferrari F430 and have the car inspected at San Diego Ferrari. Being that I had build a rapport with Mr. Ogburn I picked him up from the airport and took him over to Ferrari of San Diego to view the vehicle that he wanted to purchase. Mr. Ogburn gave Ferrari of San Diego $600.00-800.00 to perform a full safety inspection on vehicle that they had records of servicing. Now the flip side to this story is that the car was on consignment with San Diego Ferrari for months and they were not able to sell the vehicle. Im sayhing all of this to prove a point.

Mr. David W. Ogburn purchased a Ferrari negoited on the price had the vehicle inspected paid for the inspection by a Ferrari dealership that was trying to sell the same car just 2 weeks before he purchased the vehicle from us. At no time did any issue of any key arise about this vehicle. We received 2 master keys with remotes when we purchased the vehicle and we gave Mr. Ogburn the same identical keys that were given to us when we purchased the vehicle.

After having the vehicle in his possession for weeks Mr. Ogburn contacted me and threatned to leave me a bad feedback on eBay via email. I just so happen to still have that email which Im happy to forward back to Mr. Ogburn upon his request to refresh his memory. On top of selling Mr. Ogburn a perfect vehicle at a discounted price he then demanded that I buy him a new key due the key not functioning. My stand point is that he had the car inspected by the dealer who serviced the car and this never came up. He drove the vehicle and inspected the vehicle himself in person and this issue never came up. The car was represented by the same dealer prior to us purchasing it and this issue never came up. I cannot discount a super car, sell it at a major discounted price and aassumed responsiblity fter the fact they a key was not functional. We took all the steps to avoid this up front I sold the car at a discounted price to allow for a quick sale being that Mr. Ogburn did his due diligence by having the vehicle inspected at a Ferrari Dealer that the car was 100% to his standards. We shipped the vehicle from San Diego to Henrico, VA using a professional car carrier.

To conclude our side of the story at some point a person has to take ownership of the vehicle. If this issue would have came up during the inspection we would have cancel the transaction and sold the car for a higher amount to compensate the vehicle needing a key. Being they both keys worked when the car was here, at the dealer, during the inspection I have to assume that something happend to this key between San Diego and Virginia. We loved earning Mr. Ogburn's business but I think his issue is with San Diego Ferrari being that he paid them  great deal of money to for see these types of issues. Its amazing that Mr. Ogburn thinks that we ripped him off!! Im offended and even furious with the way that he handled this. He threatned to bash our reputation if we didn't buy him a key rather than addressing us like gentlemen and treating us with the same respect we treated him. Stephan offered to even pay half of the price of a key which is $400.00, just to keep Mr. Ogburn a happy client and he declined the offer.

Im sorry but no one would sell you a 120,000 car and RIP YOU OFF for a 800.00 key. It worked when the car was at the dealer, it worked here with us so the problem was not with us sir. As a courtesy we tried to offer what was more than fair and you decided to go online and bash our company by calling us ripoffs!!