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re: Bricks and Minifigs (Lego reseller), scammed a family out of $200k in legos
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:00 pm to stout
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:00 pm to stout
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The GFM to repay the family and pay legal bills is over $200K.
Personally, if I were the Lego owners I would hope that GoFundMe goes to the moon, maybe 3-4 million. I'd then spend every penny of it to get the ~$80k those cocksuckers owe me. At that point it wouldn't be about the money. I'd spend every cent that was raised to get THAT ~$80k back. It is the principle of the matter.
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 6:04 pm
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:02 pm to Lsut81
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Well they "bought" 10k worth of legos from the original owner 10 times so they could individually sue for 10k each. Assuming that is the full amount, theres 100k at least left.
No. He didn't keep that $100K.
The owner's son said that about half the collection was sold and paid out under the former store owners, and that $200K was the high estimate of value. Based on that, what was left was closer to $60 to $80K stolen.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:03 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Personally, if I were the Lego owners I would hope that GoFundMe goes to the moon, maybe 3-4 million. I'd then spend every penny of it to get the ~$80k those cocksuckers owe me. At that point it wouldn't be about the money. I'd spentd every cent that was raised to get THAT ~$80k back. It is the principle of the matter.
I'd rather spend that money making sure the whole business goes under. Fund a lawsuit for the franchisees to sue corporate for not acting in good faith and ruining their business.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:08 pm to stout
I’m not sure who’s in the wrong here
The guy who collected Legos as an adult man with a family or the kids who think they can get a bunch of money for their dead dads stuff
The ceo is smart for building a business that rips off nerds but America is due for a land invasion or at the very least a draft at this point. Americans are too coddled
The guy who collected Legos as an adult man with a family or the kids who think they can get a bunch of money for their dead dads stuff
The ceo is smart for building a business that rips off nerds but America is due for a land invasion or at the very least a draft at this point. Americans are too coddled
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:10 pm to Tigerdew
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They owner of the Metairie and BR locations is good people. It's a wild industry for sure. He has grown men that literally come in everyday to check out what people traded in from the day before. Every... day......
Yup
I walked in there clueless wanting to buy a set my son wanted
It was $1250
Grown children have ruined toys
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:11 pm to stout
quote:That right there angered me so much watching part 2. He called that lady at the station and she flat it lied to him.
Imagine how bad the audio the cops redacted is
What do you think the CEO and the two BAM owners are promising those cops for blatantly taking their side on every matter, and actively going after Ben?
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:14 pm to sledgehammer
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What do you think the CEO and the two BAM owners are promising those cops for blatantly taking their side on every matter, and actively going after Ben?
It's not even about him promising anything. It's that they are all Mormons and go to the same church. Just cult-like behavior.
The CEO probably gives a lot of money to the church and that affords him protection from the cops
Think of it like Todd Graves or Gordon giving to LSU NIL. A ton of people would protect those two with all they have because they donate to their religion AKA LSU
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:24 pm to stout
I know he pushed the Mormon angle hard in ep 2, but I was thinking there had to be more to it than that. You’re probably right though. The weird arse cult of Mormonism is to blame. I wonder what other nefarious acts Mormons have covered up over the years?
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:30 pm to stout
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The owner's son said that about half the collection was sold and paid out under the former store owners, and that $200K was the high estimate of value. Based on that, what was left was closer to $60 to $80K stolen.
Your own video you posted at the 27min mark sites court filings that between 100-125k remained at the time of handover to the new owners.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:32 pm to sledgehammer
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I wonder what other nefarious acts Mormons have covered up over the years?
I take it you aren't familiar with Warren Jeffs?
Look him up, and you will see how cult-like they are.
They had a whole town centered around a church in Arizona called the YFZ ranch, where they all knew he was taking children as his brides and did nothing about it because he was the prophet in their minds. He literally had a rape dungeon in the church where he took the child brides to.
He was also assigning other men in the community child brides
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:34 pm to Lsut81
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Your own video you posted at the 27min mark sites court filings that between 100-125k remained at the time of handover to the new owners.
Yea I just saw that 5 minutes ago so my estimate was off. I was basing it on Ben saying the value was high and the owner's son saying half had sold. Now the owner's son is saying it was actually $250K and half sold.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:36 pm to jmarto1
quote:my 5yo gets family to buy him $70 set. He builds them. Then plays with them. They are completely smashed and missing pieces within a week
I would be all over some sets but I cannot bring myself to take them apart and do not have the space
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:43 pm to SuperSaint
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my 5yo gets family to buy him $70 set. He builds them. Then plays with them. They are completely smashed and missing pieces within a week
Lucky, my 12 year old loses pieces moving them back and forth before they ever end up built and getting to be played with
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:48 pm to jivy26
Ok this is a wild situation with a lot of wrong turns.
I watched most of this video and some of the next video. It sounds like the original owner woman was suppose to buy out the legos and not put them on consignment. Business policy I guess.
After the odd situation with her leaving the country and wanting to sell the franchise, corporate just took the items because whatever items are there are suppose to be bought out and not on consignment.
Not as straight forward as a company straight stealing items but it is quite obvious mistakes were made and they should have put in effort to return the items to the rightful owner.
I watched most of this video and some of the next video. It sounds like the original owner woman was suppose to buy out the legos and not put them on consignment. Business policy I guess.
After the odd situation with her leaving the country and wanting to sell the franchise, corporate just took the items because whatever items are there are suppose to be bought out and not on consignment.
Not as straight forward as a company straight stealing items but it is quite obvious mistakes were made and they should have put in effort to return the items to the rightful owner.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 6:49 pm to stout
I watched this Leonard French guys other video about this. It was actually the first one I watched in this lego deal then watched Bens videos. The Bricks guy may have a legal position to the legos but if you have to hide behind the law on it vs just doing the right thing and settling up you are a tremendous piece of shite individual. This is an interesting moral vs legal situation. I also think Ben will win this in the court of public opinion and the other Lego trade in store brands will be the beneficiary of this.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 7:00 pm to holmesbr
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I also think Ben will win this in the court of public opinion and the other Lego trade in store brands will be the beneficiary of this.
Yeah, Ben has already won public opinion, but he is in for a major legal fight that may cost him personally
I was hoping Lego would cancel BAMs dealer agreement and maybe even sue them for hurting their brand with all of this, but Lego has said they are staying out of it as of now.
Lego can't stop the secondary market, which BAM relies on a lot, but I would think they have a good argument that BAM is hurting their brand and needs to refrain from mentioning Lego or using their logo in ads
Companies go after secondary market sellers a lot, saying they are causing brand confusion. They do this despite the first sale doctrine existing. Don't believe me? Go sell a Delta faucet or any MASCO product as new on eBay or Amazon and see what happens. They will send you a letter, and if you don't comply, they will sue you and get a judgment. They have sent me a letter so I took any of my Delta Amazon listing down and only sell their stuff as "open box" on eBay even if it is new.
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