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Re: Stupid: Bought an Open Box
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Sat, 29 Jan 2000 01:07:37 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> G'day folks,
>
> My first LUGNET post here actually..., aside from the great thread I had going
> with myself over in /TEST :] I only got back into this buying LEGO thing
> recently after a lapse of sanity of about 15 years..., what was I
> thinking??! :]
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> Anyhow, hit the Toys'R'Us last night and discovered a "reduced to clear"
> section of the LEGO shelf. Never noticed it before because it was on the far
> side of the Duplo section, and I'm normally hunting for Star Wars (that's what
> brought me back to LEGO). Anyhow, it was mostly a bangers'n'mash sale with
> boxes that made me wonder where the steamroller section of the store was.
> Actually one of the sets in the section wasn't squashed at all: a nice little
> 6468..., my first winch!! :] Everything in the section had the UPCs covered
> over with black marker, and they were instead priced with a green clearance
> sticker. I sorted arond the bizarro kits (personal opinion) and found a few
> things that looked interesting for a clearance price. One of them was a
> Technic 8207 "Dune Duster".
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> Unfortunately, I didn't notice until I got it home that the box had been
> opened and re-taped. Funny too, because I checked the other 3 sets I bought
> for that sort of thing. So inevitably it's missing pieces, like half kit.
> I'm not going to count but out of 82 pieces I'd guess I have about 40-50.
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> So, any suggestions on how I can get the missing pieces? Turns out this set
> is from '96 so that's going back a bit. I don't really want to buy a full kit
> from someone because I'm freaky about having part kits laying around. Is it
> possible to buy what I'm missing from LEGO? I don't mind paying for the
> pieces since I knew the risks of buying from that shelf. But that's going to
> be a hefty list of parts going to LEGO. I'd have to photocopy the
> instructions, and circle everything I'm missing I guess.
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> Anyhow, hope someone can help..., it's a neat little set.
Just call LEGO Consumer Affairs. Replacement parts are free (in most cases,
including yours).
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Stupid: Bought an Open Box
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| (...) Thanx Mark. I caught a thread along this line in the Star Wars group, where somebody was missing a Boba Fett from an opened Slave I set. The issue came up of whether LEGO should be replacing the parts free of charge. In cases of missing parts (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: Stupid: Bought an Open Box
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| Hardly. If you have more than about 5 parts these days, they WILL charge you. Mind you, they don't charge much, but the days of just about everything free are long gone. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (27 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Stupid: Bought an Open Box
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| G'day folks, My first LUGNET post here actually..., aside from the great thread I had going with myself over in /TEST :] I only got back into this buying LEGO thing recently after a lapse of sanity of about 15 years..., what was I thinking??! :] (...) (27 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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