222. Lego Wars

It's all about a Lego set, an incredibly valuable Lego.

lego set and a contract to sell that a corporation which may have stolen the lego set youtuber who got involved and has now been criminally charged for the things he was doing about the lego set so wild story We'll dive in.

So back in 2023, a man named Brian Manziel, he enters into a consignment agreement with Crystal Law, who is the owner of a bricks and minifigs franchise in Kaiser, Oregon, which is just outside of Salem.

Now, consignment, for those of you don't know, I mean, probably most of you have either been to a consignment store.

I bet Alice is all about consignment.

Are you kidding me? Well, tell us, you

explain consignment then.

Okay, so Mrs. Brett and I go consignment shopping all the time.

Consignment shop is just secondhand store, right? But there are nice consignment stores.

There's like your typical Goodwill that people know of Salvation Army, Goodwill.

But there's also like high end consignment stores where you have like a lot of children's clothing, for example, because children grow out of their clothes very fast, so they may wear their very expensive, special smocked outfit one time before they outgrow it, but it's still a perfectly good outfit.

And so you'll buy it at a consignment store for a fraction of the retail price.

toys, really anything could be consignment.

And people make a living on this, especially now really with the explosion of social media.

People will show how they like go to Goodwill or Salvation Army and then consign it online through different apps or even just like on Instagram and TikTok and make factors more than they paid for it.

So consignment is simply secondhand shopping.

Yeah, and basically the people who own it are making an agreement with the store, and the store has the storefront.

I mean, think like antique shops, things like that.

They have this whole setup, and people come in and they buy it, and the person who put it on consignment, they get a portion of the proceeds.

The store owner gets a portion of the proceeds.

Everybody's happy.

Everybody's happy.

And so...

And

that's a great point, Brett.