mandolincafe hat - 6th week update

[billkilpatrick]

mandolin cafe hat ordered 22 march ... 6 weeks and no show ... italian postal service going for gold ...

- bill

[Arto]

O la bella Italia... My friend sent me a postcard, took a month from Peru to Finland and I thought THAT was a long time...

[billkilpatrick]

i have a dream ... i'm walking with my brand new LV600 loar mandolin through an airport in the united states with plenty of time to catch my connecting flight. off in a corner somewhere - not too far from an establishment selling refreshing alcoholic beverages - i hear the familiar, inviting ring of gdae resonating along the concourse. being a curious cove, i perambulate in the direction of a small coterie of happy, toe-tapping travelers who have gathered round an instrumentalist of more than modest ability. as i assume a place in the outer fringes of this group, admirers on both sides turn to give me welcome and one of them - in joyful recognition of the mandolincafe baseball cap perched jauntily on the top of my head - turns back to those assembled and announces brightly "... here's another one!" ...

... alas, it is but a dream ... mid-june and still no cap ...

[Dan Hoover]

there's a couple things you could do bill? 1st-hang out at the airport,maybe someone will have one on?you know what to do next....2nd-your a man of many talents...you could paint on a blank cap??...3rd-i have a aunt who comes from the Ticino area,could maybe work something out???or maybe have to buy more sunscreen???
i'm sorry..it's very hot/humid here today..i've had a couple beers..hopefully your cap will arrive tomorrow..cheers

[mrmando]

Bill, I'd love to spend some more time in Siena; seems like a nice place. Send me a plane ticket and I'll personally deliver you a cap.

[billkilpatrick]

thanks for the suggestions - i could probably knock something together with a blank cap and a ball-point pen but where would i find a hat to equal the low spark - the muted bling - of mandolincafe beige?

[bluesmandolinman]

I have been through this many times....
You better be happy it´s only a hat and not your dream mandolin :mad:

good luck it arrives soon !

[hank]

Got mine in yesterday. Yes sir definite low spark and muted bling. I'm wearing mine tonight while I sleep to keep me safe from those banjo vixens.

[journeybear]

Wasn't there a song like that? "The Low Spark Of Muted Bling?" :confused:


:whistling:

[billkilpatrick]

Wasn't there a song like that? "The Low Spark Of Muted Bling?"

cowboy or otherwise boots ... (whew):

[journeybear]

I'd like to say that brings back memories, but it's all a blurrrrr ... My favorite part is the psychedelic art for the single of "Hole In My Shoe" at 8:46. I keep forgetting that - of all things - was one of the singles from their first album. Hmmm ... I actually have one of those - Paper Sun/Giving To You, both a bit different from the album versions. Strange days, indeed ...

Our local PBS station recently ran a concert of Clapton & Winwood. Lots of good stuff. :cool:

[billkilpatrick]

... Strange days, indeed ...

verily ... which brings me back to the original posting - "where (on earth) is my hat?"

[Santiago]

Maybe Scott and his family can hand-deliver the hat and write off the trip to Italy as a business expense. :-)

[billkilpatrick]

Maybe Scott and his family can hand-deliver the hat and write off the trip to Italy as a business expense. :-)

more pasta in the pot and three (?) extra settings "a tavola" ... even as i speak ...

[journeybear]

It occurred to me, Signore del Avatare Cambiante, that there is an inherent danger in sending anything mandolin-related to La Bella Italia, motherland of our fair eight-stringed beloved instrument, in that it's possible that such might be diverted by some unscrupulous postal employee - enamored as are we of anything mandolin-related and unable to resist temptation - for his/her personal use. :disbelief: :( :crying:

[billkilpatrick]

i do like the idea of some italian postal worker (sicilian, in all probability) sporting my official mandolin.cafe cap ... but i would really like to be assured that it has, in fact, left the good ol' usa ... or taiwan ... or wherever ... all those many, many months ago.

[Scott Tichenor]

Bill, I'm finding no record of your purchase. Please contact me privately with the email address you used--PayPal has no record of either email address I have for you, or the date ordered.

[billkilpatrick]

bummer ...

[billkilpatrick]

it transpires that paypal had withdrawn money from my account all those many, many months ago and indicated that my order had been processed but then - for some reason - questioned my mailing address, one i had used many times before. could have been a european/usa interface thing but at no time, during all that time, did they inform me there was a problem. paypal have refunded me the purchase price of the ball cap this morning - grazie! strange are the ways of e-commerce ...

imagine! - all this time i was blaming the italian postal service - what could have possessed me!? but just to be safe, when i re-order the ball cap, i'll have them send it to a stateside address.

customer concern from the mandolincafe management for my missing hat was just awesome.

[Scott Tichenor]

No, that was actually my Cafe business account that made that refund, and I was the one that pushed the button. Not sure where you're getting this information as I explained it this a.m. :confused:

[billkilpatrick]

thank you scott! as i perceived in your private correspondence this morning, there was no address provided - an address which functioned admirably for the purchase of my "mandolin.cafe t-shirt" and countless other, non-mandolin.cafe related items. i suspect the problem lies with paypal and n-o-t - repeat - n-o-t - your very good (albeit, just that wee-bit touchy) self.

with genuine respect and admiration for everything you've achieved and all that you so generously provide us - bill

[Scott Tichenor]

If there would have been no address, then who do you suppose I would have mailed this to?

This ain't rocket science. The no address was in reference to my refund and that information would not have had any bearing to the refund since it was all handled electronically.

Touchy? No, I just understand what's going on. :)

You made a purchase, product never got there. Refund was made. End of story.

[Dan Hoover]

and here i was thinking that another poor postal donkey stumbled off a cliff???imagine that....all's well ends well...cheers