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Incidentally, the Parisian Restaraunt I bought from my local LEGO Store during the discount has a damaged box. Do I care? Nope, wanna know why? No? Who cares, going to tell ya anyway.
It's because the LEGO Model is more important, the set is retired and I don't care if the box is damaged as long as I get to build an awesome LEGO set. I really need to get on that.
how generous of them.
Among other things the value increases with rarity. As you said Lego is meant to be handled so an unopened set is clearly more rare. Packaging in general is fairly fragile and meant to be discarded. Retail packaging is hardly about transportation. Those retail packages were shipped and sent to the store in SHIPPING boxes or crates. Retail packaging is about the consumer experience, nothing more.
And speaking from experience (having gotten the same set with opened seals more than once after returning it) some of those companies definitely abuse the fact that Amazon is pretty hands off in that situation.
I got my money back without even needing to return the kit, but not sure I want to carry on building a kit which has been started already...
Also, you'll have plenty of opprotunity to enjoy time with your family when you are permanently injured from falling off of a faulty ladder.