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Re: Soccer Bus Packaging Mistake
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lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:00:49 GMT
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I always seem to get extra bricks is sets (eg: extra transparent 1x1) They
may mean to do it.

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Maggie Cambron <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:39EE742A.9623F6EC@postoffice.pacbell.net...
> Here's a mistake you might hope for.  Each of my kids got a black soccer
> bus from S@H (presumably from the same packaging run).  One had all the
> right pieces, but the other contained an extra window (unfortunately
> sans glass).  Upon closer inspection we discovered that this set was
> missing the head/torso of the Johnny Thunder twin (which lends credence
> to the theory that the boxes are checked by weight).  When we called
> Customer Service for a replacement, the rep was chuckling because she
> could hear my son in the background saying, "Tell her it's Johnny,
> Mom!"  It seems she thought he had named each member of the team.  She
> didn't know which fig we were referring to so we told her it was the
> moustached one with the hair on the side.  A few days later my son
> received an envelope in the mail containing BOTH of the moustached
> torso/heads that come with the set!
> 
> I didn't have the chutzpah to ask for window glass for the extra window.
> 
> Maggie C.
> 



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Here's a mistake you might hope for. Each of my kids got a black soccer bus from S@H (presumably from the same packaging run). One had all the right pieces, but the other contained an extra window (unfortunately sans glass). Upon closer inspection (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory)

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