Anyone found a way to get around the Walmart ban? 
It's so painful watching these deals and getting every order canceled.
I've had 4 orders go through in the last 3 weeks, but it seems to be random on which ones get flagged.

Only way I’ve had success was to do guest checkout and use my wife’s name, my work shipping address, different credit card, & incognito browser. I did one order of 3 holiday trains. Haven’t done another yet.


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48 minutes ago, SageFly said:

Anyone found a way to get around the Walmart ban? 

It's so painful watching these deals and getting every order canceled.

I've had 4 orders go through in the last 3 weeks, but it seems to be random on which ones get flagged.

I've had a few orders go through. My holiday trains were cancelled, but other stuff went through. I'm not sure what algorithm they're using.

Same. A few hospitals cancelled and trains were insta-cancelled. I’ve been lucky since but I waited about a week or so and very small orders.


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My Voltron from Wal-Mart was pretty decent looking except for a crease down the size.  Crease came from compromised box.  One of those custom boxes they fold over on themselves to make the sides of the box.  They hold up okay on the corners and length/width but weak on depth and can get pressed/squished easy.  Observation only, I got a Voltron for $134.99 and tax, can't complain!  I like the retro sets like this, scooby doo, flintstones etc.

Surprisingly, I had one huge box from Amazon delivered with 3x Falcon, 2x Voltron, 3x T-Rex, and 3x Arctic Scout, all were in good shape.

Voltron showed up destroyed... Falcon destroyed...

Packing and shipping things properly is hard.

2 hours ago, stuco191 said:

Only way I’ve had success was to do guest checkout and use my wife’s name, my work shipping address, different credit card, & incognito browser. I did one order of 3 holiday trains. Haven’t done another yet.

 

2 hours ago, exciter1 said:

I've had a few orders go through. My holiday trains were cancelled, but other stuff went through. I'm not sure what algorithm they're using.

 

2 hours ago, BrickLegacy said:

Same. A few hospitals cancelled and trains were insta-cancelled. I’ve been lucky since but I waited about a week or so and very small orders.

I wonder if using a PO Box or UPS Box would help at all. Swapping credit cards and names is easy, but I'm limited on addresses

2 hours ago, exciter1 said:

Surprisingly, I had one huge box from Amazon delivered with 3x Falcon, 2x Voltron, 3x T-Rex, and 3x Arctic Scout, all were in good shape.

That's gotta be one HUGE box! Glad they arrived in good shape.

Surprisingly, I had one huge box from Amazon delivered with 3x Falcon, 2x Voltron, 3x T-Rex, and 3x Arctic Scout, all were in good shape.

1 hour ago, Martae54 said:

With Exciter it'd be more like:

1 hour ago, Phil B said:

With Exciter it'd be more like:

They didn’t even bother with a box for my Falcon. #lessthanleasteffort

 

 

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8 hours ago, stuco191 said:

Only way I’ve had success was to do guest checkout and use my wife’s name, my work shipping address, different credit card, & incognito browser. I did one order of 3 holiday trains. Haven’t done another yet.


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Wearing these seem to help too...

Surprisingly, I had one huge box from Amazon delivered with 3x Falcon, 2x Voltron, 3x T-Rex, and 3x Arctic Scout, all were in good shape.

WalMart sent me one box with ninjago city, ucs y wing, parisian restaurant, 3x US Capital and a friends drifter diner, all pristine somehow.

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Frustration Free Carousel arrived in excellent condition.

One Hospital from Walmart arrived in nonconvential box with adhesive to keep it closed.  I'd never seen this before but it was sized to the set pretty well.  Seemed like a nice way to ship the set.

Just got my 2x T. Rex transports from Amazon and both have broken seals and ruined corners...

On 7/17/2019 at 5:47 AM, KvHulk said:

Voltron showed up destroyed... Falcon destroyed...

Packing and shipping things properly is hard.

if you want to cut your losses, I'm looking for a Voltron for personal build...PM me w/ a price

My Hulkbuster came in mangled a f$&@

Voltron pristine?! Trains also beautiful all came in their official Lego brown cardboard AND a Amazon box. Not trying to rub it in but just showing they have the ability to get it right.          Not so Good with falcons and Kylo tie though.

Every one of my recent Amazon orders have come pristine - Voltron was within the og Lego shipping box as well

Only recent issues were a couple damaged items from Target - 2 out of many for Pop-up book -> offered a replacement since they stil lahve in stock

2 carousels from walmart were both damaged, they offered 15% discount

Are most shipping issues from Amazon now?  My Walmart Voltron came well packed.

Edited July 20, 20196 yr by stackables

All my prime day orders are mint. I also ordered in multiple qtys. City trains came in lego shipper boxes inside a box and carousels came in shipper boxes inside a box (not prime by wal price match). Sorry to those having crappy luck on amazon. I recommend multiple qtys to avoid shipping labels slapped on the lego box


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16 hours ago, stackables said:

Are most shipping issues from Amazon now?  My Walmart Voltron came well packed.

Just-a-shipping-label-on-a-box issues seem unique to Amazon. Overall packing quality is just a YMMV across the 2-day shipping retailers though. Regional/local DCs, timing, what you order, how much you order, and luck of the draw all affect it.

Ordered 10 sealed cases of series 1 Disney Minifigures, received 5 individual series 2 Disney minifigures. Don't have high hopes for this one ending well. ?

Ordered 10 sealed cases of series 1 Disney Minifigures, received 5 individual series 2 Disney minifigures. Don't have high hopes for this one ending well. ?

10 x 1 = 5 x 2

At least the math checks out ....