Posted June 7th, 2006 at 12:50AMSo on Saturday, after working the usual [PITA] 2p-11p shift at Lowe’s, I get home and check my e-mail. First time in a few days, and lo and behold, there is an e-mail from my sales advisor at Keeler MINI, saying that my car has come in. The e-mail is from Friday morning.
They’re not open on Sundays, so I wait till Monday. Call the insurance company, get it insured. Call the car dealer. No, can’t pick it up early, they just got a larger (~13 car) shipment in. Later today, fine. Wait, you need to finance? Woh! So we need to get right on that. Oh, and the insurance company never faxed the insurance cards over. Call them back.
Run to Vermont to cash a large check, so that I can get a large down payment for the car. It’d take a few days for our check to clear. We run to Saratoga, to the bank that issued our check, give it to them in exchange for a cashier’s check (they couldn’t cash it, didn’t have that sort of money on hand – jeez). Run back to our bank in Vermont. No, they still need to wait for this one to clear!
Not getting the car Monday.
Tuesday morning, get a call from my sales advisor. Trouble with the insurance. Trouble with the loan. Insurance company has the wrong VIN and wrong person on the title. Loan needs a co-signer.
ETC. ETC. ETC.
After twenty or thirty calls, I’m finally ready to pick up the MINI. Everything fell into place by 4pm on Tuesday, but I had to work at 6 and didn’t have enough time to pick it up. I’ll be heading down to Keeler sometime after noon.
It would have been neat to take delivery of the MINI on 6/6/06. But c’est la vie. It would have been even better to get it last Friday or Saturday.
Updates to follow. With picshures
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You should have just stolen the car, took of the VIN and said it’s your car. It’s easier to make a stolen car legal than what you did.