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1. Series 10 - getting more than 16 at a time

   

   Discussion by Ronny · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   What are your thoughts on the recently-imposed limitation of allowing customers to purchase 16 minifigs per customer per day? I know that online, at shop.lego.com, they have limited it to 16 for quite a while, but I used to go to the store, buy 2-3 boxes, find sets of 16, and return the rest. Any advice on how I could…

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   Comment by lulwut · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   Why do you suppose they implemented the 16 limit? Think hard.

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   Comment by Renegade007cjh · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   Might have missed the beginning of this one - but who is imposing this "max 16 per customer" rule? Is this in *all*shops everywhere, or just Lego bricks-and-mortar stores (and [email protected])?

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   Comment by Phonebooth · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   wow - you used to return that many? I can understand 1 or 2, but that seems a bit excessive and also totally circumventing the 16-per limit. The strategizing for the golden fig begins...

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   Comment by CCC · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   Doing 16 per day over 10 days is not actually exactly the same. You cannot absolutely guarantee one complete set, let alone three, if you do 16 per day over 10 days, whereas you can be sure of one set (well two) if you do just one box per day. After you have selected some, that box is available for others to select from.…

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   Comment by Furrysaurus · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   technically you may not be able to go 10 days in a row getting 160 figs. my local store ran out of series 9 within 2 days (they've had a 16 fig limit since series 1).

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   Comment by Zeya · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   My new preferred method is to buy a sealed box off a foreign Amazon site (usually amazon.fr) and then I cut open all the packets. I put together my 16 that I want, and then try my best to get 2-3 coworkers the ones they want. I keep the extras and eat that cost; I plan to sell them later. I've come to dislike the…

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   Comment by legogregors · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   It stinks for the next customer who goes in thinking he/she has a chance of getting any of the 16 figures from the box you have returned but is really limited to someone's discards. But that can happen anywhere. If Lego wanted to solve this they could always box instead of bag the individuals.

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   Comment by Si_UKNZ · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

   You can usually buy a full set of 16 on ebay for RRP plus about £2-3 postage. If your time is so valuable then spend £2-3 to save a massive chunk of it as well as some petrol (and it doesn't involve ruining anyone else's minifig purchases either).

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    Comment by Ronny · February 2013 · Home› Collecting

    LOL. The most I did was buy 2 buy at a time, but I would sometimes follow up and buy another box. There's a store really close to me, so spending $180/box is really not an issue if I know that I'll be returning the ones I don't want. Last time, I bought 2 boxes for $360. Went home, comfortably and on my own time find the…

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