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| | | Author: | Leftoverbricks  | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 11:33 | | Subject: | Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 315 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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| | | | | Author: | mrJG1981 | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 11:45 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I can understand it's ringing alarmbells but at the moment i would consider
it too early to tell. Personally i recognize the name of the seller as a thirdparty
seller on bol.com.
the verification processe seemed to have gone well otherwise there would not
be a shop.
So maybe the seller/company is looking for other salespossibilities.
In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 11:56 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, mrJG1981 writes:
| | I can understand it's ringing alarmbells but at the moment i would consider
it too early to tell. Personally i recognize the name of the seller as a thirdparty
seller on bol.com.
the verification processe seemed to have gone well otherwise there would not
be a shop.
So maybe the seller/company is looking for other salespossibilities.
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+1
Plus the fact that they've been registered as a member for nearly two years
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In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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| | | | | Author: | PlanetEarthToys | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 12:15 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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it's called New Competition...
publicly naming them with a link to their store while describing them as 'Suspect'
& what they are doing is 'alarm bell's ringing' worthy when you have
zero evidence of anything is borderline Defamation.
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 13:40 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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it's called New Competition...
publicly naming them with a link to their store while describing them as 'Suspect'
& what they are doing is 'alarm bell's ringing' worthy when you have
zero evidence of anything is borderline Defamation.
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"borderline" maybe...
But strangely enough, it most likely had the effect of more business being driven
to them. You might be surprized by how many secretly want that too-good-to-be-true
or just-fell-off-the-truck type of offer, the premise of "fishy" just
serves to reinforce the illusion.
Especially with the convenience a link provides, cutting down on some individual's
usual time needed for reason to kick in
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 21:08 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, popsicle writes:
| | "borderline" maybe...
But strangely enough, it most likely had the effect of more business being driven
to them. You might be surprized by how many secretly want that too-good-to-be-true
or just-fell-off-the-truck type of offer, the premise of "fishy" just
serves to reinforce the illusion.
Especially with the convenience a link provides, cutting down on some individual's
usual time needed for reason to kick in
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Good ol' popsicle, spittin' truth as usual
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 22:13 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
| | "borderline" maybe...
But strangely enough, it most likely had the effect of more business being driven
to them. You might be surprized by how many secretly want that too-good-to-be-true
or just-fell-off-the-truck type of offer, the premise of "fishy" just
serves to reinforce the illusion.
Especially with the convenience a link provides, cutting down on some individual's
usual time needed for reason to kick in
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Good ol' popsicle, spittin' truth as usual
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Yeah, though I really should save my spit, it dries up as quickly as the
truth does, nowadays
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 12:17 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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Prices don't look that low to me. Death Star UCS is lower than the current
average but over the 6 month average - no big deal there, that's totally
normal.
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| | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 12:32 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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I've read all comments so far.
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 12:36 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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I've read all comments so far.
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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My sister who didnt own any Lego suddenly 1 year bought 100+ sets then “suddenly”
listed them a year later with 0 prior lego sets having been sold for her. It’s
not that crazy. I looked at some of the prices and although a little low they
arnt crazy low. Even their Venetian houses are over $100 more expensive then
the one I have for sale
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| | | | | | | Author: | steelwoolghandi | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 12:41 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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Seems to me, if you want those questions answered, you could just email them
directly. They might have been buying sets for some time now, and they had a
lot of bills come up, maybe they are in divorce proceedings and their mate is
wanting these sets out of the house, etc.....
You would not find this out by asking other here, only by asking the seller directly.
Email them and find out before calling them out.
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| | | | | | | Author: | PlanetEarthToys | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 15:12 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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I've read all comments so far.
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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i won 2 pounds of near mint mini-figures on a ebay auction like 18 months ago
for $40 / free shipping. inventoried out to be around $1400 in parts & complete
figures.
is that "fishy"... or too good to be true?
am i now 'suspect' ... ?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | tonnic | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 15:48 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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I've read all comments so far.
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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i won 2 pounds of near mint mini-figures on a ebay auction like 18 months ago
for $40 / free shipping. inventoried out to be around $1400 in parts & complete
figures.
is that "fishy"... or too good to be true?
am i now 'suspect' ... ?
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Please do not let this forumposts be like a lot of Instagram or X posts that
ridicule people.
The OP may be right or may be wrong but responses should be mature.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | PlanetEarthToys | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 16:59 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, tonnic writes:
| | In General, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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I've read all comments so far.
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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i won 2 pounds of near mint mini-figures on a ebay auction like 18 months ago
for $40 / free shipping. inventoried out to be around $1400 in parts & complete
figures.
is that "fishy"... or too good to be true?
am i now 'suspect' ... ?
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Please do not let this forumposts be like a lot of Instagram or X posts that
ridicule people.
The OP may be right or may be wrong but responses should be mature.
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please feel free to highlight anything in my comment that is not up to your standards
of "mature' or is "Riducling' of the OP.
i stated a fact about a past purchase ( that coincidentially can be verified
via this community forum as i bragged about the awesome deal publicly at the
time....)
then i asked 2 questions
go right ahead & point out the "Immature" & "Ridiculing" part
of any of that.
i'll wait....
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| | | | | Author: | kittybrickz | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 13:49 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Just to weigh in: I opened my shop in October, and have been collecting and storing
lego for 7 years. I had over 100 gwp, and have a huge personal collection besides
what is posted in my BL store. What I'm saying is that I uploaded 20k worth
of sets in 24 hours to BL to open my store. That aspect to me is not suspect.
Cheers
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| | | | | Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 17:42 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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We all have to be vigilante and watch for suspicious activity to prevent a repeat
of the November Nightmare. However, error on the side of caution when something
doesn't look right.
Perhaps the better way to have handled this is to report suspicious activity
to the admin team via the Problem Center so they can evaluate whether there is
an issue.
Based on your definition of fishy I might have to be careful when I open my store
in a few months. (Waiting for our house remodel to be completed.)
Someone might think a new store with 200 sets, 100k parts, and 500 Instructions
would be fishy.
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 17:52 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | | Someone might think a new store with 200 sets, 100k parts, and 500 Instructions
would be fishy.
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Always thought you were sus!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 18:13 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
Be nice or I'll have to break out the Blue Dots . . .
Just because I'm left-handed, doesn't mean I'm not in my right mind
or a nefarious character.
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| | | | | | | Author: | steelwoolghandi | | Posted: | Jan 11, 2024 00:26 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, DanialR writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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We all have to be vigilante and watch for suspicious activity to prevent a repeat
of the November Nightmare. However, error on the side of caution when something
doesn't look right.
Perhaps the better way to have handled this is to report suspicious activity
to the admin team via the Problem Center so they can evaluate whether there is
an issue.
Based on your definition of fishy I might have to be careful when I open my store
in a few months. (Waiting for our house remodel to be completed.)
Someone might think a new store with 200 sets, 100k parts, and 500 Instructions
would be fishy.
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I'm all ready to block your store when it opens. Thanks for letting us know
you are sketchy! 😆
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| | | | | Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2024 04:46 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Don't know if they've changed their prices since your post, but I think
most items are priced rather high actually ...
Erikk
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