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(...) Ouch! I feel bad because I have traded with this guy and a lot. He had great deals. Everything was always 20% less than retail ... even the new stuff. I would even have he find me special orders. I always wondered how he could find stuff I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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I have not met or traded with Bill before. Still, this news shocked me, as if suddenly I discovered that one of my close friends were a criminal. It's sad, sad, sad. Stealing is wrong. Stealing for profit is very wrong. Still, he could have commit (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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I'm not sure this is really "media watch", it's more like "multimedia watch", but I can't keep this to myself: Google Earth has chosen to include extra high resolution satellite photos of relatively small areas around each of the Legoland parks in (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Most cashiers working in huge toy stores simply don't care. Pick the one that looks most inexperienced, tired, or both, and you can probably get away with the most amazingly simple scams, provided you don't do it too often. That, I think, was (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Actually, it's one of the oldest scams in the book; that's why those automatic tellers at Home Depot, etc, have the weight system setup. I'm surprised it worked so well, I guess the cashier's display just said "ITEM LEGO TOY" or something like (...) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) No, he was an Admin up to the point Dan got wind of this. He was not only demoted but kicked off the site 100%. I can see Bill doing this no problem. His ego and attitude led him to think he was better and smarter than everybody... guess the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) That's so simple I'm surprised I never thought of it, not that I'd ever commit a crime of course. Steve (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Gregory wrote: He'd better be (...) As I read the report I thought exactly the same thing, although my joke was going to involve making sure he didn't drop the soap. :-) Steve (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Bill hasn't been an admin for awhile, several months if I remember correctly. Daniel (URL) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) I never did like that guy, but I never would have guessed this. He'd better be able to make up a much more violent or daring crime to tell his cellmates. I can just imagine what his prison life would be like: Cellmate Bubba: "Hey you! Yeah (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) How pathetic. They say innocent until proven guilty but it sounds like they got him dead to rights. I hope this doesn't end up giving all AFOL's a bad name! (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Wow. How effin' sad. (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I would expect that he is now a former inventory admin. (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Reposting in several additional groups. This is an important story with potential impact upon a whole bunch of people. Thanks for posting the article. I've been reading the comments over at the Bricklink forum, where the sale/resale aspect may (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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William A. Swanberg, the inventory admin on Bricklink was arrested for switching UPCs on Lego sets. Full story here: (URL) COUNTY - - Early this morning (11/17/05), members of the Washington County Interagency Fraud and Identity Theft Enforcement (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch) !!
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| | Fame at last! (In the Romford Recorder)
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(URL) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Thanks for linking to this story. I'd dispute one point, though: (...) That's technically true if you cherry-pick which Mega Bloks you want to test, but then the same can be said of LEGO:LEGO linking. Micro-scale Mega Bloks are almost 100% (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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From (URL) Bloks Inc. did not infringe on Lego's trademark, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. Danish toy maker Lego had appealed to the higher court, alleging that Mega Bloks had copied the "look" of the tiny knobs that allow the blocks to (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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One of my colleagues in PR just called me with something cool on what has to be the shortest turn around ever. HGTV ((URL) is wanting to film someone’s house that is VERY decorated in holiday/Christmas themed LEGO creations. The kicker? HGTV wants (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce)
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theage.com.au -business newswire- Nov. 13, 2005 Brick by brick, LEGO® might move on It has a population of just 8,000, yet it churns out plastic bricks by the billion. But now the people of Billund, Denmark, must prepare for the worst: LEGO leaving (...) (19 years ago, 13-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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