Let's Talk About RB and his MYSTERY BOXES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ต.ค. 2023
- Are they scams? Let's find out!
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Spent 140$ on a set, came with 26 missing pieces. They told me to buy them on brick link myself lol.
😂😂😂
I got a set that was missing a couple of pieces and when reached out to RB, was told the same thing about ordering the missing parts from Bricklink... smh...
@@shawnharney761 unlucky so he is a scammer?
Calling the real price a ”discount” and slapping on a random ”original value” price is pretty much a scam. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal here in Finland, and that’s good, because I think it’s incredibly scummy to do.
In alot of eu countries stores use loopholes to make up original prices that dont exist without it being illegal
This is very well possible.
I don't know the laws in Sweden, but in Germany this practice is prohibited by law.
Disguising standard prices as discounts by stating higher, fake standard prices even has its' own name over here: Mondpreis (moon price).
someone commented below this resulted in a US lawsuit because KB toys was doing it
Welcome to america buddy
its a marketing method..??
Falsifying sale prices (ie, listing something as 'on sale' even though it was never sold for the original price shown) is fraud and something that K-B Toys got in trouble for back in 2003. A class action lawsuit resulted in a $3 million settlement.
Best thing to do when buying mystery boxes is to see the lowest priced item you could get, see if its worth the price (Lets say, a mystery box cost 10 bucks, but the cheapest set you could get is 14). And if you're still interested and think you will get your moneys worth, then buy it.
I wouldn’t even do that, I’d just not bother with republic bricks. Bought a mystery box that was $100 guaranteed and I got a 231 piece set. Absolute crap and it’s just flat out scummy, dude sells such overpriced things just because they’re custom. Says that because it’s custom the Lego set gets a 100% or more markup
But the price you're seeing if it's worth it is a price they created. I could tell you that the items in the box I sell for $1,000 each but I'll sell you the box for $50 and you'd lap it up thinking you got a $1,000 item for $50.
Hot take: I think all Lego mystery boxes are a scam. If you like to gamble with your money and have a higher chance of getting a good steal or deal, then buy opened used sets. For those that don't know, a seller can list a set that was partially built but never completed it, and the rest of the bags are ideally left in the box. Oftentimes, sellers might not be sure if an opened used set is complete, so at best, you could potentially get a good set at a lower price. Worst case scenario, the seller could also scam you by taking out bags that contain high value pieces. Another thing to try is if the seller only has pics of a used set that's already been disassembled and put in bags. I had bought the 4851 Spiderman origins set for $13 a while back, and the set was only missing 3 pieces. All the minifigures and original box were there as well.
Literally not even a hot take
I mean like you’re not wrong
Couldn't agree more. Mystery minifigs/boxes are so stupid.
Maybe it's not a scam...it's just a really bad deal for the consumers. Since scams happen to the unwilling, and everyone is buying them is willing
When I bought from him (I don't anymore) "limited" mystery boxes were available past their limited date. I also a couple years ago bought 12 or so "random" Star Wars figures that he clearly forgot about for months. I messaged him multiple times before he just sent me 12 battle droids...
id gladly accept 12 battle droids, IF thats what i ordered. that mfer really thought he was slick with that
bought their five pack of "custom clones" and figured if i even get one good one with a cool helmet it would be worth it, instead i got five "clones" with shittily printed faces on minifigure heads and terrible mismatched body/leg colors that i cant even use for other clones
Same dude, literally a scam
same as well, what the hell am i supposed to do with a clone that looks like it came straight out of a fever dream
This is what he does: Pays youtubers to premote his products, then he ships missing pieces. And then when you buy it and tries to get the missing stuff he said to me: order something else and it’ll come with the missing pieces
thats just straight up pathetic. ''oh you are missing pieces? too bad, spend more money on my site and get said missing pieces with a set that might also miss pieces!''
@@J7rre_thats literally what he was insinuating (idk how to spell it)
I made two purchases with them:
First was a mistery LAAT box, which said that there were no mini scale ones, which I thought was awesome. It costed me $30 bucks, shipping and fees were another $30, besides it getting shipped one month after the pre order original date. Well, when I opened it, I found a Coruscant Gunship! Awesome, right? Well no, because the gunship is so small it wont even fit a SEATED CLONE inside, thats how small it is. If that is bigger than the mini LAAT, I imagine the mini is a micro-fighter or something. Build quality was also bad, so I would say I was scammed simply because there were none of those small gunships amoung the 30 on item picture
I also decided to give them another chance because there were doing Clone Trooper mistery boxes for $3! Most of my clones are knockoffs so pretty much any clone would be an upgrade, right? Well, after 2.5 months they came in the mail and... they had helmets printed on heads! Yeah, their "helmets" were lego heads with a derpy visor printed on them. Also, the clones I got were like: A Scorch with a blue torso and green legs. Like What I am supposed to do with those? Out of 6 clones I bought, 5 had these useless body combinations, the only usable one was a Doom Trooper that had normal printing, just have to get a GCC Doom helmet, the others can't even be used to "upgrade" normal figs. That was 200% a scan, how do you sell clones WITH NO CLONE HELMETS? Those arent even on his website for obvious reasons. Guess I had "high expectations" for wanting a clone with all the same color among his body and a fucking helmet huh
Lastly I want to say RB has been known for sending actual good stuff to youtubers and lego influencers, so if you didn't actively hid who you are, there is a big chance he sent you good clones so you would review it.
I mean for what u have gotten from him it hasn’t been horrendous pieces or anything really missing it just takes a bit and I’m pretty sure his recent stuff is significantly better than his old stuff
Last year I purchased 8 mystery sets and 7 of those were all green Naboo speeders, ordered 6 mystery fogs and 4 of them were Obi-wan as Rako Hardeen the other 2 never showed up
Yeah RB uses a very basic tactic of putting it on sale 24/7 because most people don’t know a very common tactic.
I don’t buy any of his figures/sets because they’re pretty poor for the most part. Mandr reviewed many sets.
Idk the thing is the mystery boxes are incredibly shady. 8$ mystery boxes with multiple possibilities above 8$ value? Thats never gonna happen, itd be a massive financial loss
Put me down as a non returning Republic Bricks customer. When deadlines are stated, they should be met and when they are unable to met the deadline, the customer should be notified. Also, It's easier for a company to meet a deadline when it has it's own working capital and invests in it's self and not have to depend on the customer and a preorder for capital. RB did not do well at all when it can to the PayPal dispute and my money was refunded. So not scammed here. Still he has very cool sets and I hope he's successful in his business venture.
Same here, and when questions are asked they should not be met with snobbish childish retorts instead of answers.
Petition to start working together to sue him
I once got a blind bag from republic bricks that was supposed to have any clone figure ever made but it was a figure from the 2023 501st battle pack and I got a free things and one of them said it could be worth more than 2000$ but all I got was a small droid build and a DARK TYPE POKÉMON ENERGY CARD
That’s not a scam, “any clone figure ever made” includes 2023 501st clones, and the free thing said and this is YOUR quote, “*could be* worth more than $2000”, which means you are most likely not goi be to get the thing worth 2k, so in your experience that is just bad reading
@@endavenger8504 never said it was a scam just disappointing considering it was 10 dollars and the whole battlepack it was from cost 20 dollars and with shipping it was almost 20 dollars also again the 2000$ thing was just disappointing like if something says it could be worth 2000$ and I get a dark type pokemon card im going to be obviously disappointed especially since im buying Lego not pokemon cards
his sets are so expensive just for shitty old parts usually it’s not worth imo
I bought a Republic Bricks mystery box a while ago, and it wasn’t bad. For $20 I got a cool Swamp Speeder and some really weird minifigure.
Had anyone bought from RB and not get the item? It's been 3 months now and I still haven't gotten anything after numerous "it will go out this time" emails..
I had the wrong thing delivered from back back in November. I contacted him about it and he was very short with my in his emails.
I was supposed to recieve the correct item from him in December, but didn't get it till January, with the same wrong item in it. When i contact him again he was very short with me, however this time the costumer service was frankly dispicable. And now he's expecting me to pay for shipping to have the wrong thing shipped back to him
Ordered two items in an order once from him. One item was cancelled with no reason or explanation given but thankfully money was refunded. The other item was missing a piece that I had a spare one of thankfully. The build is very unstable and will end up being used for spare parts sadly.
In the middle of dealing with RB. He said the mystery boxes shipped out on May 11th, one was labeled as "same day shipping" and I purchased it on the 2nd. However, the tracker has had nothing happen other than the shipping label being printed. I called up USPS to see what was going on, they told me that the label printed was for not even 5 ounces. How is that possible for a UCS set? USPS literally told me to call my bank because they believe it to be a scam.
Their customer service is definitely sub par at best. Shadow sets are ridiculously common
I once had to wait 5 months for an RB set. I emailed them at 2 months and they told me it would arrive in a couple weeks😭
When I brought a mystery box being only 14 quid I ordered 4 and got 4 Black Shadow swamp speeders, jus thought like great four of the same thing but all black, also was a week late.
Bought something from him where if I spent a certain amount I’ll get 9+ free items with it, me thinking I would get some kind of Lego figures, well when it got here it was Pokémon cards🤨I’ve bought more stuff from him and with experience the mystery boxes are not worth it at all, better off just buying what you want
yea bad experience, granted I did bought mystery clones but they weren't any shown in the featured pictures and didn't come with helmets just helmet details printed on the lego head and took 2 weeks to ship
very fair way of reviewing a store
the one problem is that i paid 25$ and got just mini builds
I like his store but from a mystery box I got the mining tie but for the record I bought 1
10:33 correction is needed here. They actually did change that battle over set to the gray price after pre orders were sent out
Uhhh...Should I change my name??
Nope it’s a cool name
i bought the custom mystery clones from RB and got completely ripped off
Just don’t buy the mystery boxes that’s just the answer
Is it possible RB gave u good stuff on purpose… I’ve made several purchases so far and I havent gotten anything really good lol
Just ordered a couple mystery boxes.... i dont expect much but a clone trooper is a clone trooper.
How large was the V-19? Minifigure scale or smaller?
The mystery boxes are definitely a scam. I took a gamble thinking I might get a cool UCS set for cheap and might get 2 crappy ones. I got three devil fish subs in 3 different colors.
That being said the sets I have purchased that I wanted like the Arc-170 and Mustafar set have been the best Lego sets I’ve ever purchased. I won’t gamble on the UCS sets anymore but will still buy individual sets til I get screwed.
I just wish the Mystery Boxes were more than Star Wars related stuff.
I just paid 20$ for a “100$ item mystery box”
I’ll update this comment in a couple weeks and say how my experience went
The thing is, the thing he woulf valur at $100 are not even close to worth that much lol
Any update?
Update where
It's been 2 months where's the update?
@@superrandomguy-lz4jf got a rey lightsaber. mid as hell 💀💀💀
but if he controls al the probability, why would he even allow the big set to be sold? there's no transparency there. I don't believe it for a second. I do think it's a little naive that you think he would even offer that 1k set for 8 dollars. The probability would let it happen sooner or later and he would never allow it.
Ive bought 20 Mystery boxes and only ever got one full size set for the ammount of money i spent
Did anybody ever received some of the big builds?
exactly, i doubt he would ever actually allow that big set to go out
Mystery boxes in general are a scam
when considering buying mystery boxes, i just look at everything and if there is anything that i wouldnt want then i wont buy it.
Nice another sketchy thing from the guy who doesn't pay his deisgners
Republic Bricks is hit or miss. My favorite item that I ever bought was the Slave 1 episode 2 colors.
Well I just bought an expensive one that was on big time sale, so we'll see what happens when it comes. It'll make good content anyway.
Lmao!! Did you not watch the video? There are no sales, it's a ploy to make you think you're getting a good deal
@@WoRGameHighlights it'll make good content (fyi, was supposed to ship on the 23rd, messaged him, said it would ship on wednesday, and still hasn't)
Also you can’t just set fake prices and call them on discounts, it’s actually illegal under US Law
did you use an account that was not your channel's name to buy from RB? if you didn't then that could be why you got what you ordered instead of being scammed
I also had terrible experiences with him around 2020 hes a pos, dude through a tantrum in my dms when I didnt want to sell him my queen amidala for an extreme lowball price
I can say it’s an actual scam, I ordered 2 of the republic gunship mystery boxes, took 2 weeks to deliver despite promised within a week, also I got 2 of the exact same shitty micro fighter guard gunships for 30 bucks each, trash company
I got a shipment from him a little while ago and bought some of his clone mystery boxes and I just received 10x of the same figure with minor color differences. Nothing different from that. I could've gotten unlucky but other shipments before that I got similar results. To be honest I think he just makes poorly made figures just to pad out mystery boxes because there's a chance you'll get the nice thing, right? I think he's only good for the stuff you know you'll get but even then with his figures they have this ugly branding on the inside of the legs. Maybe he's only good for his auctions and certain figures and sets.
Do jonak next… total scammer
honestly, if you buy mystery boxes, you deserve to get scammed
Yeah buying Mystery Box is basically a scam just set expectations low.
fr just buy from china and u can get his $1000 lego set for less than $100 probably like $50
The thing is that his mystery boxes are an even bigger scam than mysteryboxes normally are
@@patentlaw0588where???
My current problem with him, is that he expects me to pay for shipping for something he send wrongly to me. Twice.
I've bought from Timmy for a couple months now. His clone mystery boxes are fantastic, good clones for a reasonable price plus the discount code. However, the set mystery boxes are where he struggles. I have bought 4 from him, 3 of which were supposed to be $650+ in value, when i recieved each set it was NOT 650 dollars. I checked the prices on his website and everytime without fail they were in the 150 dollar range. I have now been waiting on my 4th for over a month now, talked to him today he doesn't know what he did with it and WON'T refund me, so yeah, SCAM
i bought like $35 of minifigures from them, mainly the mystery ones like 1-2 years ago and it STILL hasn't even shown up. They haven't emailed me that it shipped, it said the order was processed, then nothing. I completely forgot about it until now.