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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 Aurornis »

wredcoll wrote: post #346
usehand wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, it's possible the serving was not done correctly. Even in that case, this does not imply, as you have claimed, that this is " just needless YouTube drama" (emphasis mine). There is clearly a lot going on beyond the obvious flashy setting which is chosen for the presentation. Arguably, no attention would have come to this matter if not for such presentation, and the perpetrators would have just gotten away with…

I feel like I once heard a great word/phrase for this thing where people attack the "civility" of the messenger instead of the actual injustice being reported on, but I can't remember what it was now. It came up a lot during black lives matter protests.

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

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Post by ddtaylor »

I actually am from this town and I have watched this play out over the last five years. I moved away from Oregon because of these exact kind of problems. My daughter's e-bike was stolen and we had a tracker in it and we attempted to get the police to help us recover it from a homeless encampment where it has been tracked to. We have ever possible way to prove ownership of the bike from beginning to end multiple times over.

The Keizer Police laughed at us and acted like it was absurd that we would try to get our property back or that they would help us in any capacity whatsoever.

I have a video of a KPD officer telling me that he's not going to arrest a junkie because only some spit landed on my daughter because the junkie was spitting on my daughter.

It sucks because Keizer used to be a really nice town and it's where people went to retire. It's where I went to retire as well and that's not how it works anymore.

Oregon is a failed trash fire now. I moved to rural Montana and don't regret a second of it.

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

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Post by alasdair_ »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #136
munk-a wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They can seize assets that belong to the entity. They can’t seize assets that belong to other people just because it happens to be on their premises, in the same way that they can’t seize and sell the cars that happen to be in a bankrupt store’s parking lot.

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

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Post by kibwen »

solomonb wrote: post #172
ogig wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should watch the two videos if you haven't because it's full of jewels. The kind of conversations and plays recorded point to a pattern. This is not their first time doing something shady, they think they can get away with it, and they greatly underestimated Ben determination and resources. "are you stupid?", "you stole them", "i swear to god i'll return them if you send me first a false apology/confession" are s…

I'm not doubting the claims at all. I simply don't understand why a massive company would shoot themselves in the foot over something relatively small.

I encourage you to relieve yourself of your naivete. Your default stance needs to be that every company on the planet would feed you feet-first and screaming into a woodchipper if they thought they could make a dollar from it.

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

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Post by dnnddidiej »

qingcharles wrote: post #296
em-bee wrote: post #44

putting aside that this deal went sour, which is very frustrating, i am curious how much they actually spent to buy all that lego, and how much they gained, if anything, over just directly saving the money.

Lego can be way better than stocks as an investment. I remember buying one Millennium Falcon set for $250 on sale and then a couple of years later offloading it on eBay for $10K.

But it is then a greater fool "investment" unlike stocks.

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

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Post by alasdair_ »

munk-a wrote: post #256
crazygringo wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the end of the blog post says the man sued and won . But the store closed to get out of paying. Which makes no sense if the store was corporate-owned. So why isn't the corporation paying?

The store in question was a franchise so potentially the liability will be limited to just the assets of that franchise. But there's a lot of weird stuff here and it looks like the corporation may have (in a legally questionable manner) removed assets from the store to the corporation during proceedings to shield them.

A representative of the corporation, while taking over the store, expressly states that the corporation is taking over the consignment agreement, on camera and with several witnesses.

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

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Post by mx7zysuj4xew »

gkoberger wrote: post #11

I'm really confused by this blog. There seems to be a large portion of the story missing. I can't figure out the correlation between the owner losing their franchise and the rest of the story. Why did they want to steal the sets? If they're really a $400M company (whatever that means), why would they do this over (at most) $200k? I couldn't figure out what is being claimed here. I'm not saying it's not true, I just c…

Yeah, it's textbook theft by conversion

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

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Post by eranation »

So infuriating. Seems there is a gofundme link deep in there. I hope this gets him and his family back what he deserves + lawyer fees so he can get justice.

Someone needs to do a movie about this. If anyone from Disney or Lego is here, this is a phenomenal way to get some free advertising + do good in the world.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan-recover-his-lego-colle...

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