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A while ago, I bought 11 pounds of Lego on an eBay auction listed as 6991 Lego
Racetrack. I jumped at it, as it was a low price (due to not being listed as
monorail) and was happy to pay for the product, which was advertised as 11
pounds of Lego.
Well, due to a wedding and honeymoon, it sat unopened when it arrived for
about a month. Now that I have opened it, I discovered that it was missing
the monorail engine and car plates. I can deal with incomplete sets. What I
was disturbed about was approximately 3 pounds of clone bricks (and other
really non-Lego items like marbles, etc.), most of them not even close to
Lego. Some were Tente, but most were very easy to pick out and looked almost
like the American Bricks (but not).
My question is this: Do I have recourse after one month? And how many clone
bricks is acceptable in a "Lego lot"? 5%? 10%? Surely not 30%! I have yet
to email the supplier (my ISP mail server is down AGAIN!) but would like some
feedback.
As a side note, for those of you about to bash on eBay, this issue could also
have happened on RTL or Lugnet, though not as easily due to the fact that we
are better informed on what is and isn't a Lego brick.
If I do get stuck, I at least got a full set of track and some stands as well
as some other items, but not what I would have considered a fair deal.
Perhaps it is "Caveat Emptor" but I would like to hear other people's thoughts
on this.
Mike
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| Mike, I think that your only recourse is to ask this person to deal with you, and maybe rectify their mistake, and failing that, to flame the hell out of them on Ebay feedback and on lugnet. They may say that they didn't know the difference... (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
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| I think putting marbles in to increase weight is way over the top. Leaving them in because you couldn't be bothered to clean things up is shoddy, but just barely acceptable if the listing is explicit that they're in there. Based on your description, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
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| In your position, I would definitely contact the seller. Thirty percent non-Lego certainly sounds excessive to me and, as Larry said, time elapsed from point of sale is irrelavent. I'm generally pretty lenient with sellers who obviously aren't Lego (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
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