Any thoughts on this? it was released sep 2010, its a old set, on sale, out of strock for 30 days, i think this will be a great set for investment purposes. Plus its on sale right now for $200, free ship regularly $250 and i would get free shipping, no tax and the chrome TC14!

It was worth the risk.  If it hadn't been through Amazon I would have never placed the order.  At least I felt like I would be protected ordering through Amazon.

I hope these bastards get bombed with a large amount of negative feedback.

I hope these bastards get bombed with a large amount of negative feedback.

Once I get refunded, then they will get negative feedback.  Amazon should force these sellers to fulfill orders by making the seller by at secondary market price and drop shipping to us buyers. 

It was worth the risk. If it hadn't been through Amazon I would have never placed the order. At least I felt like I would be protected ordering through Amazon.

Agreed. As long as our info wasn't shared with that company.

Agreed. As long as our info wasn't shared with that company.

Hmmmm

I just emailed the seller and started reading over their feedback more in-depth. Its pretty crazy. They are currently getting bombed with bad feedback for multiple lego items, and they've responded to some of the bad feedback with the same generated response of

 

"You were issued a full refund when you emailed claiming you didn't receive it. How is that bad selling practices?"

 

This might be a little worse than I had initially thought. Even if they are issuing a refund to everyone, I think this is one of those things where they are likely holding onto credit/debit card information. Amazon really needs to know about this and actually investigate.

Hmmmm

"This might be a little worse than I had initially thought. Even if they are issuing a refund to everyone, I think this is one of those things where they are likely holding onto credit/debit card information. Amazon really needs to know about this and actually investigate."

 

First time poster and relatively new to the site however knowing the amazon system is something that I a familiar with.

 

Josh Amazon doesnt work like that for third party sellers.  I am a fellow third party merchant with featured seller status on amazon and how it works is amazon handles all payments.  As a third party merchant you dont even have access to credit card info.  When you process the order as shipped the money then is transferred into your merchant account.  You then can withdraw it to your bank account from there.  

 

This sellers metrics should hit a threshold where he gets banned i would assume.  Amazon does not mess around in banning bad sellers as we are extensions of them and they do protect there image very well.

 

"This might be a little worse than I had initially thought. Even if they are issuing a refund to everyone, I think this is one of those things where they are likely holding onto credit/debit card information. Amazon really needs to know about this and actually investigate."

 

First time poster and relatively new to the site however knowing the amazon system is something that I a familiar with.

 

Josh Amazon doesnt work like that for third party sellers.  I am a fellow third party merchant with featured seller status on amazon and how it works is amazon handles all payments.  As a third party merchant you dont even have access to credit card info.  When you process the order as shipped the money then is transferred into your merchant account.  You then can withdraw it to your bank account from there.  

 

This sellers metrics should hit a threshold where he gets banned i would assume.  Amazon does not mess around in banning bad sellers as we are extensions of them and they do protect there image very well.

 

 

Thank you sir, that's good to hear. Also, welcome to the site!

"This might be a little worse than I had initially thought. Even if they are issuing a refund to everyone, I think this is one of those things where they are likely holding onto credit/debit card information. Amazon really needs to know about this and actually investigate."

 

First time poster and relatively new to the site however knowing the amazon system is something that I a familiar with.

 

Josh Amazon doesnt work like that for third party sellers.  I am a fellow third party merchant with featured seller status on amazon and how it works is amazon handles all payments.  As a third party merchant you dont even have access to credit card info.  When you process the order as shipped the money then is transferred into your merchant account.  You then can withdraw it to your bank account from there.  

 

This sellers metrics should hit a threshold where he gets banned i would assume.  Amazon does not mess around in banning bad sellers as we are extensions of them and they do protect there image very well.

Good to know. Although now I have no idea how someone was able to use my card. Creepy feeling.

I encourage everyone to contact seller through your order and request a tracking number. They will post a refund shortly after...and then I encourage you to pile on the bad reviews.

BTW this is why I used to amazon card. Zero risk, either way Amazon had incentive to make sure these transactions ended without fraud. I didn't know the seller didn't get my CC info, that's really good to know.

I received a reply from the seller. Here's what they said:

 

"We've discovered an issue with our shipping partner not delivering these sets to our customers, and while we are working with them to get to the bottom of this (here read: screaming at them) we are currently refunding all buyers who have not received their sets. We are terribly sorry about this incident; believe me when I say this situation has been a complete nightmare for us."

Similar to what jaisonline was saying earlier, this whole thing sounds to me like a means of resolving a cash flow issue the seller may have had.  For whatever reason, they needed money quick, sold some dummy sets to get some quick cash, and then once they were paid on some incoming merchandise, began issuing refunds.  If they did this for a small number of sales, this would have probably gone unnoticed as they have mountains of good sales feedback to override a few bad ones.  You can see they've done it before by reading earlier review comments.

 

I'm not sure they'll be surviving this one, though.  They're getting murdered in their most recent reviews.

I got the same reply.  Passing the buck instead of owning up.  They clearly never had them in the first place.

Wow. Just... wow. I missed this sale. It would have almost been worth the hassle just to give the seller one more negative feedback in the hopes he doesn't get away with this crap again.

Wow. Just... wow. I missed this sale. It would have almost been worth the hassle just to give the seller one more negative feedback in the hopes he doesn't get away with this crap again.

I had them in my cart several times during those couple of days, but I never pulled the trigger.

What a messy situation.  I say it is time to show the seller the Brickpicker effect and pile on the bad feedback

I had them in my cart several times during those couple of days, but I never pulled the trigger.

 

Me too...

They flat out lied in their feedback replies about contacting customers, they didnt. I called amazon and they said an official investigation is open, that's all they would say. Not sure if that's a stock response but the lady seemed sincere.

Their store is basically offline, only a few products and all "not available".

Their store is basically offline, only a few products and all "not available".

Wow...sounds like they're getting what hey have coming to them. I hope they are banned as an Amazon seller for pulling a stunt like that.

I just got my refund, so I guess its time to go lay another egg on their feedback rating.

I find it interesting that almost all of the positive feedback for the seller centers around CD/DVD sales, while almost all the negative feedback is from Lego sales.

I think this thread needs to be pinned. I really can't believe that so many people not only wasted time with this, but actually posted for days about how it's legit and what not. I'm sure that nobody is really out anything as Amazon has the money, not the seller, but I still don't understand why anyone would waste the effort on something that was clearly a scam from the start. I have no idea what the seller hoped to gain from this, but maybe enough people never request a refund that it makes it worth a shot for them.