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Great advice. This year has genuinely been the unluckiest year of my life. I would highly suggest that everyone keep their points right now because when I redeem mine for credit in the following weeks, I'll bet everything they find another Batpod lying around to post in the VIP Rewards the day after I cash my points out. That's my final VIP Reward prediction for the year.

You can’t do a safe-t since amazon didn’t refund the buyer - yet. You have three options: 1.you refund 50% ( max allowed ) and you should easily win any az claim but you lose on the other 50% 2.you refund 1 penny or any nominal amount to stop the automatic refund and see if the customer open an az claim or worse a charge back which would be rolling the dice , but this is the only way to keep 100% of the sale 3.you wait till Amazon automatically refund the buyer ( usually after a week of receiving the item ) then you can open a safe-t but you are putting yourself at the mercy of those folks to give you whatever % back which is rarely over 50% these days . Keep in mind the buyer can open a AZ claim after 48 hours of seller receiving item. Ofc you risk negative feedback and an account health metric hits if you lose az claims. I’d base my decision on the following: -$ of the order . (If it is low I’ll take option A since it is the safest ) - health of my account ( can you stand absorbing both a negative and a az claim/charge back loss?) -principle of things but business continuity comes first In all cases I highly recommend reporting the buyer to amazon under the report abuse tab. edit to add : since buyer didn’t claim the wrong item was sent the chances are highly in your favor against any az if you deduct up to 50% good luck

I would use the $120 VIP Reward to get something like The Office on 10/1 for "free" to guarantee the Ray and then wait for 2X VIP (don't redeem then) to get the Castle and possibly another Ray. That is my plan except since I have the Castle I will be getting the Lighthouse, both sets are overpriced so 2X VIP and GWP is the way to go until we see 40% off. Caveat: Still need to keep 15K in VIP points banked for the big BF reveal

I would not message them a thing. This is slightly passive aggressive. You already know the person does not have a moral backbone since they are scamming you. Talking to them isn't going to change their mind or make them fess up to being a jerk. Give up on that approach. Now that you're dealing with a scamming scumbag u need to change the approach to maximize their damage and try to get something back. #1 reporting the buyer to amazon under the report abuse tab like bold said. get that started . #2 accept that ur not getting all your money back - ok, so lets get the most back.. option 1 as bold outlined. if u want to get the most back quick, go with 1. if u want protracted chance of getting it all but probably less than 50% go with 3. don't forget that if you get 50% back the scammer is taking a hit too and they won't like that and will not scam u again in the future. it still sucks but that is the price of selling on amazon as they say. ur dealing with a pretty dumb scammer since they chose did not approve purchase as the reason instead of correct item not sent which you would have had a harder time defending against. #3 open a case about the order and outline specifically that the buyer is sending back a counterfeit item after you sent them a genuine item and that you are now out of pocket $xxx and that you cannot continue to sell on amazon if they will allow this buyer type of counterfeit substitution scam without recourse. include photo of set u sent and the counterfeit/alternative set that you received. this is mainly a feel good stand up for yourself but eventually buyer may get enough dings to draw attention and lose account and maybe just maybe you get some refund.

I do, but I also have a loyalty reward to redeem and can only do that online, so I’m factoring that variable into the equation 🤔

Do you have a local store? I feel like this one might sell out online after 10 days but is likely to linger in stores for most of the promo. Some of the other recent promos have lasted a lot longer in my store than they did online.

That’s all fine , but if they open a AZ after 48 hours you are guaranteed to lose the claim. Low chance they will respond to you but it doesn’t hurt

I'm really hoping the Oct 10-16th double points event is still happening.. If so, what's the likelihood of Ray the Castaway GWP still being available on the 10th to do a double dip? Figure it's time to pull the trigger on 10305 Lion Kings Castle and would prefer Ray over the points if it came down to choosing one over the other (using a $120 discount reward, so points would only apply to $280).

I would assume so. Checking another store after work and I can read the fine print on the signage.

Kroger Sale started 9/28 ends early October: (all of these stack together and work on LEGO) 1) 20% off all LEGO 2) Digital coupon: $10 off Toy purchases of 50 or more 3) Paper Coupon: $6 off any purchase of 60 or more I chose the Medieval Castle, which cost about $64 with the deals. They also had the Viking Ship and lots of HP. This chain tends to carry standard sets $150 and below, but sometimes they have Ideas and Technic during holidays. They have minifigs too, but you have to be there at the right time to catch them.

Probably gonna be getting an influx of new people here. At least a small uptick. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

Not sure if this came by yet: Actual price is $339.99 + tax, free shipping. Zavvi shipping is hit & miss, advise to treat this as a builder only.