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

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Post by usehand »

Aurornis wrote: post #75
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…

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You seem to be all over this thread trying to defend the company LOL Are you B&M corporate? If they have such a solid case, why did they lose the small claims lawsuits?

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

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Post by ryandrake »

jmyeet wrote: post #47

It's wild to me how willing people are to torch their company's reputation. If you've seen some of the videos and comments around this it really seems like the corporate owners, and possibly the new franchisee, are arguably, for lack of a better descriptio0n, egotistical bullies, the "yeah? sue me then" types. They've probably gone their entire life just being a-holes and not being held accountable. And now they're d…

> It's also funny that the Utah police who got involved when people went to corporate are basically just acting like corporate's security arm.

When it comes to disputes between the poor and the rich, the police always choose to act as the rich's private security arm.

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

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Post by axus »

Aurornis wrote: post #81
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…

Forgive me if I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. I just read the linked blog and some of the links within, but I don't have time to watch all these long YouTube videos > The goods were still there, still on display and being sold. The store says the full inventory was not discoverable at the store. They said the person gave a written statement in the past saying the collection was "moved off site for secu…

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.

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

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Post by Ajedi32 »

frmersdog wrote: post #43
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Federal and most state civil courts are pay-to-win, too. They have absolutely nothing to do with justice. The only time "the little guy" wins anything is when the lawyers stand to make a windfall in contingency fees. (...See, e.g., authors vs. Anthropic. The most prolific author might make somewhere in the low six figures, the average author is gonna make ~$10k, and the lawyers representing the class asked for $300M!…

The legal system is captured by legal professionals. The average American is bound by a system that they can't engage directly with. The middlemen who most people must hire to navigate through it generally will not help unless there's a substantial payday in it for them. And in civil matters, defendants have no right to representation. (Also, the judge is colleagues with counsel, opposing or otherwise; none of them t…

You correctly identify the problem as an over-complicated legal bureaucracy in your first paragraph, and propose more government as the solution in your third?

The solution here should be to simplify the legal system so legal adjudication is more accessible to non-lawyers, not add more layers of government bureaucracy on top of the existing ones.

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

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Post by fhn »

psygn89 wrote: post #77
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…

This is a gofundme I would gladly donate to. Fight the power for what's right.

Yeah, but you don't know the whole story. There was a young motorcyclists who ran from the police and killed in a crashed. His family has a go-fund me still just to collect money.

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

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Post by usehand »

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???

The likely explanation is not that they are stupid, but that they are actually being rational and they can do this often and get away with it.

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

#108

Post by shadefinale »

usehand wrote: post #98
Aurornis wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive me if I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. I just read the linked blog and some of the links within, but I don't have time to watch all these long YouTube videos > The goods were still there, still on display and being sold. The store says the full inventory was not discoverable at the store. They said the person gave a written statement in the past saying the collection was "moved off site for secu…

If that's the case why did they lose the small claims cases?

They lost default judgements because they did not appear. Either they thought it was fake or they thought they'd lose, but they were served and did not appear.

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

#109

Post by quietsegfault »

paulddraper wrote: post #23

For the alternate side, Bricks and Minifigs claims much of Mansell's inventory had been sold, or relocated by Mansell himself. The liability for any discrepancy in sales and his compensation is the responsibility of the franchisee with whom he sign the contract. > 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…

Do you care to disclose your relation to the leadership of Bricks and Minifigs? Did you go to the same university as those involved from the company? Are you affiliated with any of the same organizations?

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

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Post by bastardoperator »

curiousgal wrote: post #46
throwaway85825 wrote: post #16

The part 2 video where the police harass and falsely arrest ben is even more shocking.

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…

The best part is when the officer takes the process server's subpoena, says he'll serve it, then walks back and says the defendant isn't accepting it while refusing to allow her to serve the subpoena.

The search of his person over a call to police is a clear violation of his rights, a phone to call to police is not PC or RAS. The fact they held him for three hours will to be to his benefit in court. Arresting him for starting a gofundme, a clear violation of his first amendment rights, I mean they're just digging that hole. Then they raid him, dislocate his arm, and now he has a warrant out for physical threats?

This story is not blowing up because because of Legos or stealing from old people. It's blowing up because we're watching a corporation and a police department abuse their power and we're all grossed out by it.

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