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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 Barbing »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #299
preinheimer wrote: post #246

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> 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. Reminds me of the whole "disney must pay" debacle.

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

Perhaps:

“Authors Have Formed a Task Force Because Disney Refuses to Pay Them”

https://bookriot.com/disney-must-pay-task-force/

> Authors like Neil Gaiman have formed a task force to fight for the royalties Disney has refused to pay for Star Wars and other tie-in novels.

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

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Post by passive »

mattmaroon wrote: post #337

I just don’t understand why a company with $95m in sales would steal $200k. That’s a fraction of a percent of sales for the year. There’s now a boycott against them that will easily cost them more than that. If the case is as this blog says, it cannot be hard to find a lawyer to do this one pro bono. Breach of contract is one of the few things in America where you can sue for your legal fees. If you take over a busin…

Because this isn't the first collection they've stolen from someone, presumably.

It's a lot easier to become a really successful company if you can keep your inventory costs down. Perhaps by investing in local law enforcement instead, to make sure no one looks too close at said inventory?

Donald Trump is famous for not paying even really cheap contractor bills, because he knew he could get away with it.

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

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #146
SteveGerencser wrote: post #139

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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.

I suppose if you advertise a job for $20/hr and a bunch of people show up and apply for the job, you're probably not going to start advertising the job for $40/hr instead. And whether $20/hr is a "living wage" depends entirely on your circumstances. If you're a solo adult you can probably swing it. If you have 3 kids you will probably be on food stamps. Should Amazon pay people with kids more? Or only hire single peo…

I agree the deal from when minim wage was established is broken. A wage you can't raise a family on is not a living wage, as it results in a dead/old age society, not a living society.

As such, this part of the new deal should be reverted as well "We are relaxing some of the safeguards of the anti-trust laws. The public must be protected against the abuses that led to their enactment, and to this end, we are putting in place of old principles of unchecked competition some new Government controls. They must, above all, be impartial and just. Their purpose is to free business, not to shackle it" since business has not held up their side of the new deal.

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

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Post by Barbing »

michaelt wrote: post #291
BobAliceInATree wrote: post #155

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The problem with consignment is that the consignor wants the maximum price but the consignee wants a quick sale because 10% of a few bucks more means very little and they have to hold the inventory.

Selling on consignment can be an absolutely great deal for shops, under the right conditions. If I'm a lego trader and I buy your set for $900 hoping to sell it later for $1000, in the meantime that's $900 I can't invest in anything else. And maybe I guessed the set's value wrong and I end up unloading it for $800, taking a loss. On the other hand, if I agree to sell that same set on consignment? Zero capital outlay,…

Much better deal for a diamond ring than a giant kayak, then. Gotta pay rent to sit on the shelf!

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

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Post by wredcoll »

jccalhoun wrote: post #157

It seems like the guy who put them on consignment is getting screwed but it doesn't seem like this Reckless Ben is helping things by doing weird stunts https://kotaku.com/youtuber-starts-a-cult-and-is-raided-by-p...

People always say this in these situations.

What do you think would be helping things? Passively sitting in the house waiting for the CEOs to change their minds? Writing polite letters to the local newspaper? Like, whats your theory here?

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

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Post by protocolture »

amiga386 wrote: post #318
protocolture wrote: post #241

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400M value doesn't mean they have a big bin on the outskirts of town where they go swimming in 400M dollars of cash. It seems like their franchisee went bust, and they bailed him out to some $ value. Taking over shit like his lease and probably some other debts. 200K is maybe what they need to recoup their losses from rescuing this store, and they have enough local LDS enforcers to make it stick.

> It seems like their franchisee went bust, and they bailed him out to some $ value. Not what happened, according to a legal commentator: https://youtu.be/14ktgvoH4Mc?t=590 > The seizure. November 14th, 2024. The [original franchise owners Crystal Law Gorman and her husband Benjamin Gorman] approach B&M about selling the store. They have an overseas job offer, they want to recoup their investment before they leave. >…

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

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Post by 63 »

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…

My understanding is that 50% of people in the state of Utah are mormon. I'm not saying there wasn't corruption, but it could very well be pure chance with those odds.

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Post by sapphicsnail »

jrflowers wrote: post #285
eff-nix wrote: post #245

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Mormons don’t go to temple every week. That would be an impossible logistical nightmare

I think the parent meant church. Most people aren't aware of the different functions of LDS churches, temples, and wards.

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

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Post by wredcoll »

turtlebits wrote: post #130
ssl-3 wrote: post #56

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Ruined seems like very strong phrasing when nothing important has been ruined. They sell new Lego sets in stores every day. They might seem expensive for a few bags of plastic bits and some instructions, but then: They've never been cheap. A kid can still grow up playing with Lego today, just as they've always been able to. I still remember building my first new Lego widget. Set 918. It was just a small basic spacesh…

Ruined as in - Lego sets are glorified EZ-mode puzzles and not creative toys anymore. Too many limited sets means it's trending toward "collector items" and not kids toys.

If you can't build a millenium falcon out of any set you're given, whose fault is that?

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

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Post by crazygringo »

HaZeust wrote: post #335
crazygringo wrote: post #243

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If someone is poor and doesn't have the money, sure you can't enforce it. If it's a corporation, it's pretty straightforward. If they refuse to pay, you get a writ from the court that authorizes seizure of assets. Usually that means you go their bank and the value of the judgment will be garnished by their bank and given to you. Occasionally and theatrically, a sheriff will take you to their headquarters to seize pro…

Have you actually gone through this process? Like sure, obtaining a writ is technically part of the same case, but it's pretty much starting all over again. And you'll still be paying filing fees, dealing with court clerks, and waiting weeks or months. Finding a corporation's bank is a whole separate issue, where you have to go back to court for a post-judgement discovery to force them to tell you. And even if they d…

No, but my point is that it does work. It's a lot better to be delayed by months and have to pay more but still get your money, rather than by delayed by years and not get it at all.

This is a franchised retailer with over 300 locations, and this is a value of $200,000+ plus so this is way bigger than small claims.

Like I'd definitely agree with you if we were talking about a $5K claim against a single location in small claims. But this seems to be a $200,000+ claim against a corporation in regular court, as far as I can tell.

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