Early Father's Day gift

Chubbs said:

@Fan, congrats on the newborn. Where did you get it?? @Village_Idiot is right, apparently the old nest has caused issues. I am trying to build a table soon to house my large and mini in an egg carten. I will give you my nest for free once I have that -- it is the new model

I wanted to buy from Jack Oliver but it was a surprise so I didn't have a say. The wife bought from Ace in Cayce. Same place I got my large from. I think I'll either modify my current table or build another (anyone want to buy a table for a large?!?) to accomadate the mini so it won't even be in a nest.

I def need to get some of those accessories. Want to be able to smoke and cook raised direct.

@mickey I will def get on the dealer about my top. They explicitly told my wife they no longer carried them. Hopefully just a ignorant employee and not going to be a bigger issue outside that.

I appreciate offer on tape. I think I'm going to cut hole in table or build a 2nd table and have it sit in there.

So I am a little annoyed now. I emailed Duane at BGE to ask about the top (I believed you guys, just wanted official response to take to the dealer.) Love my wife but she paid $440 for that mini. Old style hinges, no ceramic top, old style gasket, and style stand. I think she got ripped off. And I used the mini last night so I don't think can even return it. Any suggestions?

So Duane told me that style mini retails for $299. And that it should have come with ceramic top. Told me to call dealer and if they couldn't resolve then would get distributor involved. I called and spoke to manager. He seemed real nice and said he promises will make right. He said he is going to email his rep and will call me tomorrow morning. So will wait and see.

Chubbs said:

FanOfFanboys said:

So dealer just called me. Told me he found a ceramic cap so that's good. But he says he called his distributor that he was told there has been no recent changes update to the mini minus small tweak to hinge, there has been no recent price changes, and that $400 is and has been price for the mini.

Man, have you cooked on it?? I would take it back. Cayce is full of $hit which is why I got us the deal set up at JO on Forest. Cayce Ace was supposed to order me a new 13"CI grate for the one I broke and they told me it would be a few months. That was 6 months ago never a word. JO's has us setup in their system with an automatic discount of 15-18% off and their customer service is top notch.

I know. Unfortunately I cooked on it night I got. I didn't realize what she paid for it and the other stuff. Otherwise I would. And bc it was a surprise I couldn't tell her about JO. She was just trying to do something nice. She knows now though and going forward only dealing with JO.

And BGE HQ told me they'll replace the nest and gasket. Dealer found the cap. The biggest thing now is paid $80-100 more for the old egg. I don't even care about the old hinge but I would like to not have paid for something I didn't get.

So he offered me a table for the mini, retail of like $125. If I wasn't making own table I would take. Thinking about asking for a plate setter for mini and maybe pizza stone for large? I think retail of those two are less than that of table. Sound fair?