Intern Pierre

Spent time with a former Rolex & Tudor sales consultant in London. The waitlist, the grey market, and why $MC watch brands can’t catch up. 🧵

@fx_imba I’ve written extensively on this with notes, site visits etc here: open.substack.com/pub/internpier…

@internpierre Okay, I understand. And in your opinion, where is this going to lead? That suddenly Ferrari will see a drop in car purchases from their showrooms, or what?

I know Honda isn’t a direct comp but with this, Lamborghini, Rolls Royce scrapping EV plans why is Ferrari continuing with the Luce? $RACE

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@fx_imba Because clients are purchasing to qualify for “halo” models and dealers are even selling new cars to shadow dealers that will resell to clients Ferrari won’t qualify. Which is why you see an influx of very low mileage preowned cars for sale (at a heavy discount).

@internpierre If some of their models have been so terrible for the past 4 years, then why do they sell out everything year after year, with orders placed several years in advance?

lol I was long the name since IPO and am a client so I’m a huge fan of the brand. I have been short $RACE for a few months as unfortunately the cars they’ve made the past 4 ish years are awful (the hybrids especially) and the depreciation / fact they don’t sell when resold tells a lot whereas the older analog models are setting records at auction.

@internpierre And going back to your first question, why does Ferrari do it the opposite way to Rolls-Royce or Lamborghini. If Ferrari operated like other companies, it wouldn't be Ferrari. Best regards and have a nice day

Nice to see people starting to get this

@LeoAKoerner Increase revenue decrease costs

We used to be able to fly from New York to London in under 3 hours. Now we get excited about being allowed to buy three consecutive seats and receiving a polyester blanket. A McKinsey profit-optimization seat arrangement is not innovation.

@business What is stopping a business like Anthropic from nuking Harvey?

Harvey, a startup that develops artificial intelligence for law firms, has raised $200 million in a new funding round that values the company at $11 billion. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I'd say 15+ dealers are less biased on customer intent / order flow than the CEO who is literally paid to be positive. It's not like he's going to say "nobody wants it" when trying to sell a €500.000 EV. I guess time will tell as to who is correct on this one. Always happy to hear the other side!

@internpierre The words of your dealers are also not equivalent to orders. The orders haven't even started yet. I'm not surprised that people aren't eager to buy something they haven't even seen with their own eyes.

@icebird573 lol yeah will certainly be interesting to see

@internpierre Dog shit 😂 the interior looks awful IMO. I'm soo looking forward to what their stock does on release. If their stock drops on release day I think I'll start a position in the hopes this will be their first and last pure EV

@fx_imba lol positive feedback doesn’t equate to orders… semantics are important sir

@internpierre So who is right? The CEO or your dealers? Anyway, I prefer to trust the CEO

@icebird573 Yeah I’d agree they can’t really pull the plug given how much capital they’ve invested in building it. But at a certain point you’d think they’d say ok this isn’t going to work let’s not put out dog shit

@internpierre I think: because its too late. they spent years developing it and I dont think theres a way back / out of it now. They are so worried it will sell like shit that they didn´t even disclose number of models / price yet

@fx_imba lol have you checked the stock price? Dealers have said on calls that there is literally zero demand for it. The Purosangue is also depreciating quite a bit. Here’s a link for a transcript on Luce demand: open.substack.com/pub/internpier…

@internpierre People said the same thing about the Ferrari Purosangue. 'It's an SUV, it's no longer a Ferrari, it doesn't fit the brand.' They made the car and now there are queues of people waiting for it. Just let them do their thing — they know what they're doing

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Beretta offers to tender for up to 20% of $RGR at $44.80, a ~20% premium to 60-day VWAP Beretta is already the largest shareholder at 9.95%. 500-year-old Italian dynasty vs. America’s largest public gunmaker

Full coverage here: open.substack.com/pub/internpier…

The Ferrari 296 is depreciating at a pace that should make every $RACE bull nervous Here’s the break down. 👇

@zerohedge Surprised since it would give Rich Handler more time to fuck around on social media $JEF

JEFFERIES NOT INTERESTED IN SELLING: CNBC makes sense since stock is down 50% the past year

From the guy who gets to go through special security screens at most airports that don’t have lines and basically take you right to the plane…