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(...) Paypal is not exactly a bastion of customer service either. Clearly they enjoy their position as a market leader and the ability to bully and neglect their consumers that comes with it. I do agree that it's unfair to to chastise a company for (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) But, I seem to recall that PayPal goes to great lengths to say they're not a "bank"... As someone who both knows Dan, and has been a fan of LEGO for nearly 40 years, I'm leaning towards the "this is a busy season at Shop@Home" line of thought, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) You may well get a "Jake who?".. he doesn't sit in Enfield and may not be in their phone system. Also I am not sure that Jake can (or should) help in specific cases. He doesn't work for Shop at Home. He's also not necessarily tasked with (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I agree, let the bank fight it out for you. That is why we pay what we pay is service fees to the banks. Call Paypal and tell them the whole situation, they should take care of it for you. If they don't you can make an ideal threat to contact (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Woah you had me scared for a bit. Looking at your subject and the way you started off your message, I thought you ordered original light grey brick packs and received new light grey brick packs (would've been worse if it involved dark (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I can understand being frustrated, but writing off the entirety of the LEGO company because one keyboard jockey at S@H made a mistake is pretty lame. It can often take weeks to resolve credit card mistakes because of the lengthy processes (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> (...) Are you sure this wasn't a PayPal issue? I remember reading a while back that when you use PayPal to purchase something, PayPal 'blocks off' the monetary ammount from your credit card (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14
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(URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14 Duplo 3278 Wallpaper Wendy 4.99 2.49 Clickits 7510 Trendy Tote (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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Wow!!! That is crazy. I can see an "amateur start-up" making that kind of rookie mistake but that shouldn't happen at a seasoned place like our dear Lego Shop@Home. I had one order this fall that was pretty messed up as well. I ordered a bunch of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Wait a minute. That's Daniel Siskind, as in "creator of LEGO set ´3739 Blacksmith shop´"? And I thought TLG would send flowers at your birthdays and lots of free stuff at christmas! :( Well, know-nothing company ogres can be that way. But I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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At the last weekend's GMLTC showing, I found out from another club member that LEGO still had some of the light gray brick packs available. Still in need of several thousand pre-2004 light gray bricks to finish the stand for battleship project, I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego) !!
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| | BOGO-50-off at US Toys R Us stores
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The online ad-copy page for Toys R Us... (URL) a Buy-One-Get-One-50-off on ALL Lego priced $7.99 - $99.99. If that price range is correct, then it leaves out the new Pods. Drat ! Someone want to check if that includes clearanced priced stuff (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: One last Spring Cleaning set
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(...) Yes...but limit 1 free :o( It would be difficult to get any kind of quantity. (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) This week Kmart circular has special buy one get one free for this bucket, Saturday (Dec.11) only. (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | SW Sets at Target
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In Targets add this weekend they had the Millenium Falcon for 78.87 and the X-WING for 37.87. Thats about 20% off (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Hi, Don't know if this is general knowledge or not, but they sell LEGO at Food4Less! Who knew? Anyway, they're blowing out the entire first set of SW mini (4484,4485,4486, and 4487) for 2 for $5.00. Fairly cheap way to get a squadron of X wings/TIE (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Green Baseplates going out of style?
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(...) I have seen WM dumping those on and off for the past year (never found any less than $3 tho). I think its mostly the computer system deciding that its a very slow moving item and dumping it. Last time I checked, TRU had plenty of these in (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Creator Tub with Bonus Box on sale US 14.99 TRU.com
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(...) I don't think they are. You can ask...but I'm not sure the red tubs are in-store anymore anyways. LFB (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Creator Tub with Bonus Box on sale US 14.99 TRU.com
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(...) Does anyone know if these sales are also available in store? There are other sets I'd like to get, but the shipping on these is brutal, and then on top of that they want to charge taxes too! I dont want to get just lots of versions of the red (...) (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Creator Tub with Bonus Box on sale US 14.99 TRU.com
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Here's the link: (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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