  
| Author: | yorbrick  | | Posted: | May 3, 2024 09:11 | | Subject: | Re: What is this part really?b | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | I didn't speak about COBI as illegal (try to quote me, I dare you), I said
that MOST bricks you see are illegal. Which is true. Lepin was illegal. Enlighten
is. And I don't go on because, differently from you, I don't want to
advertise such bricks. But I know what it makes in EUROPE a brick illegal, since
you do NOT have a clue of the topic, but I do.
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I will quote you ...
It's really a pain to spend a lot of time sorting bricks separing cheap
clones
like COBI and so on from the actual LEGO and encouraging people to keep them
in order to make some small (to nearly zero) profit is not a good attitude for
this platform. I strongly believe that the money you can gain out of selling
stuff like clones (most of them are also illegal in most countries) is
a small
amount compared to the time you lose in separing the bricks, converted into money.
Yours is shortsighted business.
You specifically name one brand and one brand only as a cheap clone, and then
go on to say that most clones are illegal in most countries. As you have only
specifically mentioned one clone brand, COBI, and then gone on to say that most
clones are illegal the implication is that COBI is illegal in most countries.
If you had not meant that COBI is illegal, then you should not have stated the
name before saying most clones are illegal.
| | In Europe all toys must undergo the Communitee Europeenne mark, which is MANDATORY
for all toys. Chinese bricks, for instance, do not have this mark on their toys,
and since it is mandatory, they are totally illegal to be sold in Europe which
have more severe control laws over toys, because, guess what, we do care about
the children's health.
However, still, you lack mere comprehension.
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No I don't. But you really seem to lack perspective.
| | I'm not speaking about wheter is good or wrong to buy such crap (when legal!),
I'm talking about the stuff that it's totally wrong to use THIS forum
to compliment about third party low quality competitors, even if legal.
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And what about third party high quality competitors' parts that can be mistaken
for LEGO, as happened here?
If you read the thread, someone found a COBI piece. Someone else replied to imply
that it should be destroyed. Someone else said don't destroy it, save it
as it is is a quality piece that others might value. Then you throw a wobbly
saying that people should not discuss the quality of clone brands.
| | Would you go to a Ferrari spare parts community and spread your poorly concealed
love for Hyundais? Of course you would not.
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If someone found a Hyundai part that looked like a Ferrari part in a box that
contained many other Ferrari parts and asked about it on a Ferrari spare parts
forum, then someone else said it is a Hyundai part and someone else said destroy
it, then someone else said don't destroy it as it is a quality part that
has a use and some value to others, I would not be in a fit of rage just because
somebody said a part for another brand has value.
| | There are places in where it fits to speak about some topics, and places where
it doesn't at all.
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This thread is about a part from a clone brand that has been shown and asked
to be identified, as the owner mistook it for LEGO. Saying that the part still
has value even though it is not LEGO is perfectly appropriate in such a thread.
Discussing that such parts exist also makes sense on a LEGO forum so that other
people do not mistakenly identify bricks that are similar to LEGO as LEGO. It
is no less appropriate to say that a clone part should not be destroyed than
to say that a clone part should be destroyed. Both statements are discussing
a clone part. Yet you only take offense at the one that says don't destroy
it.
The first post in this thread is about a COBI part, as that is what is shown.
Is it appropriate to show such a part even if it is by mistake as the owner thought
it was a LEGO part? If you don't like it, then you can report the thread
saying that it is advertising clone parts that should not be discussed on a forum
owned by LEGO.
| | Making high praises of competitor brands on a LEGO ran site is totally out of
context.
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They are not making high praises. They simply said "COBI is a very high quality
clone, and there is a market for it." That is a true statement. It is better
to keep and reuse something than it is to destroy because it is not LEGO. There
was no statement such as COBI is better than LEGO, there was no statement that
people should not buy LEGO but buy COBI instead, just a short sentence that a
clone part should not be destroyed because someone might be able to use it.
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