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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 Retric »

dwedge wrote: post #448
calgoo wrote: post #442

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Yes? Take the side of the person getting railroaded by a giant corporation, a bunch of corrupt cops, and a legal system that is built to protect the big, and milk the poor. Whats the other side in this? Feel bad for the 400 million corp with their army of lawyers? Feel bad for the store owners who scammed the person and acted like a total dick? Honestly, whats your take on this?

> Whats the other side in this? The difference between you and the person you replied to is that, despite neither of you knowing what the other side is, the other person was curious to learn it instead of assuming they know everything and attacking.

> This is because poster takes sides

Is an attack on the credibility of the writer.

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

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #161
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #123

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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.

The founder of mormonism married a child and given that mormon doctrine is just whatever he said definitionaly it's an official sanctioned thing. Some coercion? It was entirely external pressure. Some of the mormons haven't even stopped polygamy today.

In the 1800s, when children had mining and factory jobs and didn't go to school past age 12. Trying to position that as Mormonism condones child abuse is bonkers, imo

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

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

hengistbury wrote: post #445
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #123

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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.

> The other three were pretty much traits of every major traditional religion at its founding. I think this suggests that all major religions are cults, rather than that Mormonism isn't. The lines are certainly very blurry.

Whichever way you want to slice it, the implication that Mormonism is some exceptionally fiendish religion compared to the others, I don't buy it

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

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

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

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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.

Are children more abused by Mormons? I find it highly unlikely just considering on average they are wealthier than other religious groups and poverty and child abuse are highly correlated

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

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

N_Lens wrote: post #303
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #123

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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.

Mormonism is a cult.

If it is, it's certainly not because it had a charismatic leader who condoned polygamy. That is basically every major monotheistic religion in the world.

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Post by benmmurphy »

jimnotgym wrote: post #169
throwaway85825 wrote: post #136

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

They can't sieze consignment stock though?!?

I think if the consignor has not taken the correct steps then there is a risk the receiver would be able to pay other secured creditors using the consignors assets. For example if there are other creditors with liens on the inventory then you are meant to take steps to notify them of your claims on the consigned goods because otherwise the consigned goods could look like inventory to the secured creditor (https://www.lowenstein.com/news-insights/publications/articl...)

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

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Post by eloisant »

free652 wrote: post #247
giltron wrote: post #224

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>Please enlighten us what other "due diligence" these people should have done for your point. $20 filing with the state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ktgvoH4Mc

It's easy to say after the fact, how are people supposed to know that before doing business with a nationwide franchise?

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Post by thrance »

gosub100 wrote: post #435
thrance wrote: post #223

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> 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?

Similarly, even if I fail to see the link between my previous comment and your question. Israel is a settler-colonial project whose ultimate goal is the creation of a Jewish ethno-state where Palestine once stood. Logically, it requires the displacement/murder of the current Palestinian population. POSIWID

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

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Post by benmmurphy »

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

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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…

In the UK you can make an order of information to compel directors of a company that is in debt to answer questions about company assets, accounts and records under oath. This can be done in County Court and my understanding it is inexpensive. I'm not sure how useful this is for carrying out an audit because I think its meant to be used for seeing if the debtor has the ability to pay. I think generally incorrect trading during an insolvency is meant to be discovered by the receivers during the insolvency process. Also, I'm not sure if there is an equivalent to an order of information in the US system.

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

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Post by gblargg »

toofy wrote: post #389
keithnz wrote: post #267

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If you look at the latest stuff from the previous owner where they recorded multiple conversations / pulled security footage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedmOopRTm0 1, they were allowed to do consignment deals, 2, when corporate took control, they said they'd take on the consignment liability, 3, BAM outright threatens them with making the legal process too expensive for them. All of which contradicts the curr…

yeah, it’s plain as day they say blatantly they’ll take on the consignment. the reckless ben youtube videos are pretty clearly laid out with contracts, video evidence, etc.. the crazy part to me is how blatant the executives of bricks and minifigs are in saying go ahead and try to sue us, we’ll drag this out until you’re broke from lawyers fees. we’re a lawyer rich corp and you’re not. they don’t even try to hide it.…

Unfortunately this makes every Bricks and Minifigs store a risk to do business with, selling or buying. You're either supporting a criminal enterprise or risking being a victim of one.
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