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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by ogig »

forgotaccount22 wrote: post #60
curiousgal wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this the same Ben in YouTube then omg was he annoying. I couldn't even get throught the first quarter of the video. The dude shows up at a store. They ask him to leave multiple times. They call on the police on him. Then he says "the police are in on it" because they trespassed him. Like wow shocking that the police won't get involved in a civil matter. Then they manipulate a store employee that had nothing to do…

Regardless if it's a civil manner or not the police clearly had no intention on even working towards a solution. They didn't attempt to find out if it was a civil or criminal matter, because he refused to listen. Find him annoying sure, but it was made very clear why they even had to call in a youtuber to be annoying and get attention. Clearly legally they would bury the original owner with legal fees. If you have a…

I'd say the police did have a clear intention to works towards a solution, a solution that helped BAM and his leaders, not honoring the law or helping the victims. They are obviously colluding, part2 video leaves very small room for imagination.

I do agree that Ben has done a good thing exposing to the public the situation.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by thevinter »

Aurornis wrote: post #121
axus wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The store (as managed by the second group) lost the suit, if they were negligent they still owe the consigner. What's missing is the relationship between the second group and the corporate parent. Seems there's some reason the liability from the lawsuit doesn't transfer to the corporation.

> The store (as managed by the second group) lost the suit, if they were negligent they still owe the consigner. What's missing is the relationship between the second group and the corporate parent. This does seem like a very key point that keeps getting ignored for the sake of a simpler story. Everyone keeps talking about this lawsuit loss, but what lawsuit? Against whom? The article doesn't even explain, but it's s…

The lawsuit was *from* the previous owners against the new owners that kicked them out of the store.

Here's a video from the previous owners explaining their story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedmOopRTm0

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by bastardoperator »

Aurornis wrote: post #95
thevinter wrote: post #83

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> I feel bad for the guy who lost some LEGO sets. I do not like the podcasters and bloggers milking him for content for their media channels The statements made by the company are simply untrue. And the guy who lost the LEGO sets (worth 100k$ btw) is directly working with the "bloggers" because they're his last avenue. He's also incredibly grateful to them because thanks to them he at least ended up winning in small…

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I recommend watching the videos and deciding for yourself. They've already won in court and nobody has paid them. How are they in the wrong at all here?

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

freediddy wrote: post #128

And people wonder why Luigi has so much support from the general public?

This looks like a corporation stealing from an old man. It’s clear-cut wrong, even if the YouTuber is annoying. I wouldn’t put it in the same bucket as a common murderer with similar favorable as Stephen Miller.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by throwaway85825 »

munk-a wrote: post #118
prophesi wrote: post #31

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Corporate is also claiming that they don't allow stores to take on consignment deals, contrary to their franchise agreement explicitly allowing franchise owners to take on consignment deals.

I have absolutely no doubts a court would consider it impossible to transfer goods under consignment to a different entity free of the burden of the consignment contract. So the corporation trying to reach into the franchise to grab these goods without honoring the contract is absolute BS and they should be dragged through the mud over it. The unfortunate loophole here is that, potentially, by shutting down that fran…

In bankrupty a court appointed liquidator can seize assets and sell them to repay creditors. Of course none of this happened here.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by [deleted] »

scotty79 wrote: post #99
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #18

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It's not that hard to understand. A man gave a store merchandise on consignment, signed a contract with the store manager. The manager lost control of the store to corporate. The goods were still there, still on display and being sold. Corporate says, "this is mine now" and refuses to honor the contract. "It wasn't our name on it, says right here that the previous store manager signed this, and she's no longer with u…

> It seems like theft, but it's a very common civil contract dispute. What if he reported theft? Wouldn't they have to prove how did they come into possession of the goods they are selling?

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by jasonlotito »

Aurornis wrote: post #92
Animats wrote: post #38

This guy tried to resolve a legal dispute without a lawyer. Any competent business lawyer should have been able to straighten this out within days. He even tried to do process service himself, which nobody does. You pay a process server $100 or so for that.

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The company should have done the right thing, but instead, they are evil, criminals, and crooks who should be treated as such.

> he should have paid a process server

He was quoted a LOT more money to try.

> He also didn't leave after the police were called,

He was legally allowed to be there trying to serve the individual.

Why are you defending a clearly evil criminal company?

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by SteveGerencser »

solomonb wrote: post #71

Can anyone explain WHY a 400M company would do this? This is just bonkers. They are destroying their reputation for $200k of legos???

Why would a billion-dollar company pay their employees so little that they need assistance to live? Or need to urinate in a bottle to keep their delivery times up? Greed and a belief that the rules don't apply to them.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by rdtsc »

> Bricks & Minifigs CEO Ammon McNeff is a graduate of Brigham Young University. Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best are, by public record and documented account, members of the LDS community. When Reckless Ben's team, following the pattern of obstruction by local law enforcement, looked into the individual officers involved in these incidents, they found that multiple officers were also BYU alumni.

I thought “it has to be some kind of corruption here”. And yup it’s the mormon mafia apparently

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