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Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:00:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Davidson writes:
> I'm just curious if anyone has ever built their newly-bought lego set only
> to discover a piece is missing. I've often been positive partway through
> that I was missing one, but I always ended up finding it.
Well, the weird double think of not actually missing a piece but thinking I
had has certainly happened to me, but so has ACTUALLY missing a piece!
Sometimes I am sure this is because someone has lifted the piece in question.
Other times, its just an error at the time of packaging.
Either way, I just call the consumer service and have them replace it. I
figure its up to LEGO to cover for the pieces missing from a set purchased
retail. On the other hand, if I purchase the set in auction or some secondary
source, I always tell them what I need and if they have it I pay for it. The
last time this came up, I actually got many of the pieces I needed to complete
a BSB.
Of late, I recall the following from MISB sets: a missing droid head, a
damaged grey wing (bent almost in half), a badly molded brown L-brick, and
there have been other things too. I call to attention the fact that these
sets had little shelf wear and were all in sealed bags and so on. So I hardly
consider the occurrence rare in my experience.
The part that is starting to annoy me is the fact that some of the elements I
am getting in SW sets appear to all have the same flaws. I remember looking
at two identical black plates from one of the 2000 SW sets, and noticing the
same small "scratch" line on both pieces -- the same flaw in exactly the same
place. I don't know if this is a flaw of the mold, the ejection process, or
what?
Am I alone in noticing a slight decline in quality control?
-- Richard
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