finished
took the money to Crevier. stopped to check on Roxy too. they have her pulling demo duty, which is all good by me! many a first MINI driver will learn to love the car, much as I did, behind the wheel of a brg/w/w MCS with package 1 and 2! I think by before the end of the year I”ll be ready to get one and pay CASH! no banks, no lenders, no leasing companies, none of that bullshit. I’ll just roll in with a few dumptruck loads of pennies….
Moving on, and to help my grandfather with some computer stuff again tonight. he is using this program called Family Tree maker and let me just say now that it’s not that hot. you can import in other database files, but when there is a duplicate entry, the remove dupes doesn’t work! how frustrating….but, I have new toys here at home. Picked up a wireless acess point and wireless NIC for my laptop. so far, I’ve gone at llllast 50 feet with very minimal signal loss and speed. I’m getting a little more than half of what I get on my desktop, which is okay since my access point is only 11MPs.
I’m out for now
oh yea, forgot this part
so, did I mention that I am actually one of the officers of the socal MINI club? um, hmmm. that’s gonna be a tough one to pull off, especially since I don’t have a MINI. ugh again
after all is said and done
So, I went back to Crevier today to discuss the matter of my refund. They had already issued me a check for the full amount, but then called me on Friday to say there was going to be a stop payment placed on the check. Then, I got another call back saying that they weren’t going to put a stop payment on the check and that I needed to stop by on Tuesday. Fine. So, I go in there today, wait for more than an hour before I could talk to the BMW manager and the finance manager. I told them I appreciated the hard work that everyone had done to get me into the MINI, but just couldn’t agree to the stips provided by the lender. Great. Then they said they needed me to pay for the time that I had the car. Great. They said $1500. I said no way. I told them that they would be making more than what I was going to pay on the car, and that any amount would be unfair. But, not being stupid, I also no that I could have sat in the office all day long going back and forth until they would just threaten to sue. blah. not worth that. I told them that $50/per day would be as fair as I could come up with and they okie dokie. back tomorrow to give ‘em a check for $1200. ugh. and, i’m still without a MINI. But, I do get to drive around in my shit brown toyota wagon that gets about 12 miles to the gallon and needs shocks (at least there is still tread on the tires). I don’t think that I will be attending the event this weekend either. I’m going to head out to the outlet center and meet everyone, and probably leave early to I can stop for a few dozen donuts first. I will then send them all on their merry way, off to tear up the twisties of highways 76, 78 & 79. ugh. totally sucks ass, and that’s all I have to say about that.
cheery notes
The big Julian run is next weekend. Clo has invited me to co-pilot MINIclo! What a sweetie! so, at least I get to participate, kinda, in the event that I have helped to organize. perhaps I will find that big sack of $100 bills this weekend and just pay cash for Roxy…hey, it could happen!
still not right
so, now I have to go back to my dealer again. they tell me that I don’t get all of my down back because of the mileage on the car, which is total bullsht. The last *demo MCS they had on the lot I think they sold for about 27K. Mine had a bit over 3K miles and I know they are gonna put it out for about 26K-27K, and it had a 23K MSRP. yea, they are losing money on that deal huh? f’ers
On more a cheery note…well, maybe a new post might be in order for that…
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