Comments on: Psst: Minispygear.com

By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:42:30 +0000

So WHAT EXACTLY is SUPPOSED to happen after you’ve entered your VIN# and clicked enter? When I do this, the box disappears and nothing else happens. Is this normal? Or should something else happen?

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:42:24 +0000

So yeah… how come just because I’m in Australia, my VIN doesn’t work?

By: Kathy Vosberg

Kathy Vosberg — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:25:44 +0000

I to have had trouble with both the insect site and now this one, not excepting my VIN #. So how do we solve that one?

By: Art Nerheim

Art Nerheim — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:11:47 +0000

It really bothers me that they came out with this nice ad campaign and some VIN# do not work.

By: blalor

blalor — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:50:17 +0000

The "Real UFO" video is a little ... creepy.

Todd, time to fire up the printer; if these are the same quality as the ones included with the welcome kit, we're gonna have to go vinyl!

By: alpinamike

alpinamike — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:02:24 +0000

His wife..lol

By: bluzeke

bluzeke — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:20:09 +0000

OH NO Gabe! There actually IS "someone a little higher up"?

To me, that is the REAL surprise of this whole affair -now please, tell us or we'll have to start guessing?!?!?

By: YuccaPatrol

YuccaPatrol — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:33:06 +0000

You are forgiven, Gabe. . . .

but I do hope that this won't happen for each and every future ad.

At least I can bask in my own smug-ness knowing that I was the first to post on NAM that I had cracked the second ad but DIDN'T spill the beans. . . :)

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:53:26 +0000

I think the secret black box stuff is really fun, but it gets ruined if you spill the beans.

I cannot go into details but it was not my idea to post this. It came from someone a little higher-up.

In the past I've always been the first to stay far away from ruining any surprise associated with the new campaign. However this was different.

By: EricR

EricR — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:26:05 +0000

I’m with Yucca on this one – there are some things that just shouldn’t be spilt. At least make us decode something to find it. ;)

By: karlInSanDiego

karlInSanDiego — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:04:29 +0000

I guess I’ll have to wait and see if this is still active in Feb(?) when we take delivery of our ‘07.

By: YuccaPatrol

YuccaPatrol — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:04:13 +0000

Gabe,

I think the secret black box stuff is really fun, but it gets ruined if you spill the beans.

I know motoringfile is all about spilling the beans, but I wish it was not the case with this ad campaign.

I'm glad I already decoded this before I found it here. . .

By: O(=^=)O Capn

O(=^=)O Capn — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:11:54 +0000

Reminds me of the secretfunspot

By: alpinamike

alpinamike — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:02:28 +0000

I thought we had to figure this out on our own, now watch out for people looking for a Vin # on your MINI(so they can get one). If BSSP was smart their campagin would have included a sticker to cover up your MINI’s Vin under the window, follows the spy theme. I have the copywright on that idea.. so don’t take it:)

By: O(=^=)O Capn

O(=^=)O Capn — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:30:45 +0000

I was too lazy to go to the car, so I just went to autotrader and looked up a mini for sale, wha-la!

By: MINI Fireman

MINI Fireman — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:51:42 +0000

I don’t think Ian meant Gabe blew the secret. I think that was directed to those making the comments spilling the beans.

By: robble

robble — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:41:44 +0000

Yup! Every MINI owner already has their super hard to break password.

You may find the house without it, but you won't get in.

By: minijcwgp

minijcwgp — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:30:19 +0000

Since you can only access these MINI easter eggs with your MINI’s VIN number, I don’t see this as Gabe blowing any secrets to anyone other than the MINI owners who are the end targets of all of these anyway.

By: robble

robble — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:09:03 +0000

Here is one. I think it was from MC^2: http://aswec-fit.org/

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:03:03 +0000

Any other links via the whole decoder thing? I have the decoder package, but none of the magazines we have to look for