Welcome to the neighborhood - MINI Cooper Forum

MGB Boy · #1 (**permalink**) Jan 10th, 2005, 09:54 PM

I picked up my MCS on Aug 5 2002. Around late October 2002, I got the "welcome to the neighborhood" package. Nice. Apparently they think I just bought another MINI, as this past Saturday I got another "welcome to the neighborhood" package, a mere 887 days after buying my MCS. Are the MINIUSA people getting loopy? Have they been huffing the white-out again?

-Ricardo

Cooper76 · #2 (**permalink**) Jan 10th, 2005, 10:15 PM

No, they are psychic. You'll be buying another one you see. And they already know.

snid · #3 (**permalink**) Jan 10th, 2005, 11:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by MGB Boy

I picked up my MCS on Aug 5 2002. Around late October 2002, I got the "welcome to the neighborhood" package. Nice. Apparently they think I just bought another MINI, as this past Saturday I got another "welcome to the neighborhood" package, a mere 887 days after buying my MCS. Are the MINIUSA people getting loopy? Have they been huffing the white-out again?

-Ricardo

Stop opening your mother's mail!

jcsinnh · #4 (**permalink**) Jan 11th, 2005, 01:44 AM

Yeah, that's pretty damn low, opening Mrs. Rico's mail. What kind of son are you, anyway? I'll bet the ethics committee at Big Blue or Big Reddish Blue or whatever will be interested in hearing this. Where'd you work before? Los Alamos? Got disks?

MGB Boy · #5 (**permalink**) Jan 11th, 2005, 05:21 AM

It wasn't Mom's mail, honest. She got her own welcome kit back in November. I think the corporate folks are just a wee bit confused...

-Ricardo

GBMINI · #6 (**permalink**) Jan 11th, 2005, 01:10 PM

Don't worry why ... just sell it on eBay - should make $20 easy

snid · #7 (**permalink**) Jan 11th, 2005, 02:44 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by GBMINI

Don't worry why ... just sell it on eBay - should make $20 easy

Wouldn't it be easier for you to just buy it from Ricardo directly, Ian?

AmRov · #8 (**permalink**) Jan 11th, 2005, 02:49 PM

I also just got mine -- nearly 1 year after taking delivery of my '04 MCS, and a good 6 months after I called to complain that I never got it in the first place...

MGB Boy · #9 (**permalink**) Jan 11th, 2005, 05:37 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by snid

Wouldn't it be easier for you to just buy it from Ricardo directly, Ian?

Nah, Ian would only want it if I chrome-plated it or added some non-spec trim or something...

-Ricardo

GadgetGav · #10 (**permalink**) Jan 12th, 2005, 01:42 AM

Slip in one of the excess MINI models you have and sell it to him as a ltd edition.

Maybe MINI corporate had a Windows meltdown and rebooted their list server and it's working through everyone again..!

MaxaMini · #11 (**permalink**) Jan 12th, 2005, 12:47 PM

Just re-gift it as you are now doing with all your models. Think of the savings. You can get that new lens with the money.

GMINI · #12 (**permalink**) Jan 12th, 2005, 02:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by AmRov

I also just got mine -- nearly 1 year after taking delivery of my '04 MCS, and a good 6 months after I called to complain that I never got it in the first place...

It's been 4 mos. for me. Thanks for giving me a ballpark idea, AmRov.

MetalMiniMayhem · #13 (**permalink**) Jan 12th, 2005, 02:22 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by MGB Boy

I picked up my MCS on Aug 5 2002. Around late October 2002, I got the "welcome to the neighborhood" package. Nice. Apparently they think I just bought another MINI, as this past Saturday I got another "welcome to the neighborhood" package, a mere 887 days after buying my MCS. Are the MINIUSA people getting loopy? Have they been huffing the white-out again?

-Ricardo

I never got a "welcome to the neighborhood" package, of course I got mine as private sale, that probably explains it... *wonder if MiniUSA would send me one if I asked really nice*

MaxaMini · #14 (**permalink**) Jan 12th, 2005, 02:29 PM

I have about 30 Derrick. You want you got. Any others. I have 75 of the Accessories with all the pictures. Anyone.

Hey Ricardo. Post a picture of the MINI with the teardrop trailer. Unless you re-gifted it. I want to show Uptick the trailer that was really a part of the classic Mini.
I sent him the teardrop trailer taken from your MG model. Yours was originaly on the Mini. Can you imagine yours behind a BRG/W ?

When I went to remount the pieces in the display the srew holes didn't match up. I was determined to get the now exclusive models done.
I got one for myself and mounted the trailer like a sidecar on the MINI.

MGB Boy · #15 (**permalink**) Jan 12th, 2005, 04:17 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by MaxaMini

I have about 30 Derrick. You want you got. Any others. I have 75 of the Accessories with all the pictures. Anyone.

Hey Ricardo. Post a picture of the MINI with the teardrop trailer. Unless you re-gifted it. I want to show Uptick the trailer that was really a part of the classic Mini.
I sent him the teardrop trailer taken from your MG model. Yours was originaly on the Mini. Can you imagine yours behind a BRG/W ?

When I went to remount the pieces in the display the srew holes didn't match up. I was determined to get the now exclusive models done.
I got one for myself and mounted the trailer like a sidecar on the MINI.

Re-gift that? Are you nuts? Wouldn't dream of it. It's sitting on top of my PC at home, in a place of honor right next to my USB hub. Don't know if I have any pictures of it though, I'll have to check. I did use this x-mas as an opportunity to re-gift a "Humphrey The Humping Dog" that I was given as a housewarming gift this past fall. Sure it may sound amusing, but then the reality quickly sets in; What am I going to do with a 14" tall stuffed chihuahua with a motorized pelvis and life-like moaning sounds? I thought of donating it to MOT as a door prize, but then thought better of it and made it some lucky soul's x-mas present instead. Just my way of honoring the season...

-Ricardo