Jondog21

I know that everyone has moved on to series 16 now, but if you still want a sealed case of these, Chapters Indigo has removed their buying limit. I can confirm that ordering 60 got me a sealed case, in the Lego shipping box. With the exchange rate, makes for a pretty good buy for those of us in the States.

I think these may be unique one time use codes. In any case, here is my code, which I do not plan to use: gW1ttwTa0Eik

My little anecdote from today, which I at least found humorous. After my purchase had been totaled, I did the partial pay of $1.00 on my credit card. The kid cashier was busy getting the spider wrap off of the set, and as soon as he had it off, I handed him my gift card and said I'd like to pay the balance using it. He at first looked confused then said "Oh. I know what you're doing. I do that too." So I thought to myself "Cool. This guy isn't going to give me any trouble, if he uses the same loophole we all do." But then he continued on with "I do that all the time for my credit score." I just smiled, trying to not give away that he had my motives all wrong, and said "Yeah and the credit card won't accept gift cards as payment, so I gotta use these up somehow." Sorry kid, but there is a bigger game afoot here

We're back in business! For two weeks at least. Came attached to a TRU Easter mailer I got today.

If you search for toys r us coupon on eBay and check sold listings, you can see there is a 15% and 20% off coupon that expires 3/12 from somewhere. Not the usual peeled off the catalog ones though. I took this picture from an ended auction. The way the barcode and date are printed makes me think they might be unique barcodes for true one-time use. I'm sure someone here will try and report back.

It worked for my order placed on 2/12, which I placed before I even noticed promotion on the website. I think they forward dated to 2/14 in the email since it was just sent today.

I will add that I bought some of the new speed champions sets using some rewards I had and paid the balance with a discounted gift card. I did not use my r us credit card, but was given 3 x points and not just 2 x. So it looks like the triple points is not dependent upon use of the credit card but just having one.

I received two of the eBay buck promotions late last year. When I got the first one I was hopeful that I would get them from then on. But I only received one more and since then I've been back to only getting free listing or sell your old cell phone for a guaranteed amount promotions.

This does happen some with AWD, but I'd say you are a bit unlucky from my experiences. They claim to verify the contents, but I doubt those people putting the stickers on the box are paid enough to do any deep research into f the sets are complete. And most probably have no idea what should be in a box anyway. I've bought a lot from AWD and almost all have turned out well. Many have been opened or damaged boxes, but have sealed and the proper number of bags. I've had a couple sets with damaged plates, but have just gotten those pieces replaced through Lego. The worst I had was a UCS Slave 1 which had clearly been assembled by someone and then sealed the pieces into a single plastic bag. I returned that one right away. Amazon is easy enough to deal with that I don't shy away from pulling the trigger when something I want pops up.

I know there are differing opinions on the use of these gift card reselling sites, as the sources of the cards invite themselves to speculation of shady or downright illegal behavior, but cardcash is running a 4% off sale and have some physical Lego cards in stock. They come to about 8.8% off with the promotion. Use the code ohbaby at checkout for the additional discount

My CMF order of series 15 from Indigo arrived today! Amazingly fast! anyway, my order of 60 did result in a sealed display box. I'll be opening to practice my smoothing skills later and can update if the distribution is off, but I have no reason to expect it will be.

I posted this in deals, but thought I'd cross-post here: Indigo.ca is showing series 15 minifigures as in stock now. For series 14, I ordered 60 and got a sealed case. I'm trusting I'll get the same for series 15. The Canadian dollar makes this a good value. $252 Canadian shipped to the U.S. Should cost me a little over $180 with my foreign transaction fee free credit card. Some people did report not getting sealed cases of series 14 though. https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/kids/toys/minifigures-series-15_71011/673419249423-item.html?ikwid=Minifigures&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=12

But the current Orthanc on AWD is also labeled as repackaged. I'm fine with buying damaged boxes from AWD, but I'd need a bigger discount for a repackaged set. Even if for a personal build, I like to have the damaged box. Right now there are a few 3rd party "fulfilled by Amazon" new ones for $261 which would only be a few more dollars than AWD for me since AWD charges me tax and the 3d party seller wouldn't. It's odd that a greater discount hasn't been triggered on that AWD one.

I agree. My understanding is the items should be damaged product from the warehouse or damaged, but unopened, returns from customers. I'm fine with the seals being broken, since that can easily happen when a box gets damaged, but sets that are obviously used should not be sold like this. I'd guess that some of the returns employees either aren't aware of how LEGO should be packaged inside the box or just don't care. Luckily in my experience most of these sets end up being complete with all the interior bags sealed. And Amazon is pretty hassle free with returns (which also helps create the problem in the first place). I hope this one doesn't just end up back on AWD though.