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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 taneq »

preinheimer wrote: post #317
throwaway85825 wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was that the incident where they stole an artists tiki design?

No, they came up with some legal theory in which they’d bought the assets of some company, including the company’s ownership of some art, but not obligations like paying royalties.

That’s like when I got my shower sealed and then it started leaking within the warranty period. The company claimed that they were the new owners and had purchased the business but not the warranty obligations (!) and I’d have to find the original owner and try to make him honour the warranty. Which was complete BS, obviously, but it wasn’t worth taking to court. :/

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

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Post by Pragmata »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #18
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…

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…

> The goods were still there, still on display and being sold.

This appears to be in dispute.

As per bricks and minifigs:

>It was clear the full list of inventory in his documentation was not located in the store. What items could be reasonably identified as allegedly belonging to the consignor was offered back to the consignor, but that offer was refused.

>A deeper dive into the sales receipts uncovered that a significantly higher volume of the listed sets had sold over the course of the consignment deal prior to the store transition.

It appears they are alleging that the prior operator had sold a larger portion of the consigned goods than they had claimed to the family.

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Post by gosub100 »

paulddraper wrote: post #393
rdtsc wrote: post #140

> 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 b…

> multiple officers were also BYU alumni American Fork, UT is literally 10 miles from Brigham Young University, and BYU represents 1/4th of the state's bachelors degrees. It's a bit like saying police officers in Italy are Catholic. I'd be more surprised if they weren't tbh. (Disclaimer: I live near that area and also graduated from BYU.)

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Post by gosub100 »

usehand wrote: post #151
Aurornis wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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In this thread you have admitted to not knowing basic facts about this case. Yet here you are pontificating on the merits. Are you affiliated with B&M? Maybe an employee or franchisee? Why do you feel so strongly you need to defend them?

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

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Post by gosub100 »

thrance wrote: post #223
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Child abuse is not an official sanctioned thing in Mormonism. And they have officially ended the practice of polygamy (yes there was some coercion on the part of the US govt) The other three were pretty much traits of every major traditional religion at its founding.

> Child abuse is not an official sanctioned thing in Mormonism. The purpose of a system is what it does.

How do you explain the genocide in Gaza?

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Post by swiftcoder »

munk-a wrote: post #333
gamblor956 wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Courts are allowed to pierce the corporate veil when that happens.

They absolutely are and a good lawyer, I'm sure, could audit the accounts and find some misdeeds - the issue is that the auditing and even getting access to those records in court is extremely expensive. To my knowledge there isn't a way to trigger that kind of a discovery in small claims so you need to go through the pricey legal system. The money in question here is the proceeds from selling a collection valued at…

> unless you start to get into punitive territory

Is there not potential grounds here for punitive damages? The false police reports and harassment seem egregious even by corporate standards.

And the corporation is valued at $400 million, so it's not like the pot isn't sweet enough

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Post by krisoft »

usehand wrote: post #423
paulddraper wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if there was a side of the story where the details exonerated the company, you'd think they would share those details Here is that side, published last week: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/21/salem-ore... And some further elaboration today: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi...

Besides the overall lack of information in these, they were also found to be lying in them

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Post by aaa_aaa »

gkoberger wrote: post #28
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 is hard to understand if you only read the blog posted here. They left out a lot of this specificity.

This is because poster takes sides
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