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Re: Weekly Update of New AuctionBrick Items
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Sun, 23 May 2004 18:08:31 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Ahui Herrera wrote:
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We live in a capalistic world and if the market is willing to pay such a
price for the set then so be it. What is the problem?
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You know, I get tired of hearing how we live in a capitalistic world. We don’t.
Not hardly. (if you disagree, take it to off-topic.debate).
But even so, this particular seller isn’t (apparently) demonstrating much
capitalism. LEGO placed a restriction on buyers, as a condition of purchase.
This seller seems to have circumvented it, as far as we can tell.
That’s not capitalism. Repeat, abrogating contracts is NOT capitalism. It’s
fraud. (unless there’s another explanation). Claiming to have 100 sets when you
don’t is ALSO fraud, not capitalism. Repeat, false claims are not capitalism.
Reread my original post. I asked LEGO to either enforce their contract with
buyers, or explain why it doesn’t apply. That’s all.
And you know what, I now have good reason to believe that LEGO is going to look
into it and to the best of their ability, enforce the contract. Now, this seller
may have been sufficiently devious to defeat investigative efforts. Maybe he/she
actually has 40 friends, who knows. LEGO can’t solve all problems, but they can
try. And I think they are indeed trying, now that it’s been brought to their
attention.
That’s all I want LEGO to do. Try.(1)
As for what I would want everyone else to do? Vote with your wallet. This is the
same thing I said to do about the color thing, if you don’t like it, state your
case calmly (once or twice, not repetitively) and then... boycott. THAT’S
capitalism.
I don’t like buyers taken advantage of this way, it’s not good for the hobby.
and by letting people know about this, maybe this seller will get less business
for these auctions than they otherwise would, and less business at their
BrickLink store too for that matter. I know I’ll never shop there again barring
some massive change in business practices by this seller, no matter what the
pricing.
Since the original post I did got 12 highlights (and climbing, go ahead,
highlight it, you know you want to) I think maybe other people feel the same way
too.
Your mileage may vary, though.
++Lar
1 - LEGO is ALSO trying on eBay. They put copies of this set in their store at
the regular price. That means that some (but not all, unfortunately) searches
will turn up the set as available from S@H and maybe cause a few less bids to
people who are listing it and then collecting bids at 150+. Now, in a perfect
world they would have listed the set as a dutch auction lot, or a regular lot
(2) with a starting bid of 74.98 and a buyout price of 74.99, but maybe they
didn’t think of that or can’t for whatever reason due to eBay contracts, I have
no idea. But MAJOR PROPS to them for giving it a try. Repeat, MAJOR props for
their caring about this. What other toy company would even care?
2 - so it would turn up even in simplistic searches by “LEGO MAERSK” or whatever
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| The last time I check this set (10152) is bid to $510 on Sunday, May 23rd. And guess what the seller is the ninjaprincess. I think she is going to make a killing on these 200 sets. See for yourself. You may need to copy the whole thing in your web (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs We live in a capalistic world and if the market is willing to pay such a price for (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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