Consignment (give your stuff to a shop, they do the selling at their store and give you a portion of the sale) from a Lego shop went missing while the shop changed hands to the corporation from a franchise.
Corporation stands on the “we never had it, we don’t owe you jack” line.
Youtuber gets involved and proves they’re wrong.
Corporation doubles down and uses “nuh uh you’re harassing us” to come after the YouTuber, including sending the local police after them with some seedy connections (“hey cops help me out we go to the same church and I think this guy stinks”)
It blows up on the Internet and even more information comes out that they definitely had the legos, and they either deliberately lied, or were too incompetent/uncaring to actually look for the legos.
Now it’s been blowing up in their face because the company basically had a “nuh uh” countered with a “well then explain this” x10 and they look like assholes for trying to shut the whole thing down when they could’ve just gone “oh yep, we made a mistake, here’s your Legos back, our bad”.
But it’s too late for that now, and they’re in big trouble for it.
It’s literally the adult-corporate version of the childhood “I wouldn’t have been that mad if you told the truth, but you lied and cheated. Now you’re in serious trouble.”
Consignment (give your stuff to a shop, they do the selling at their store and give you a portion of the sale) from a Lego shop went missing while the shop changed hands to the corporation from a franchise.
Corporation stands on the “we never had it, we don’t owe you jack” line.
Youtuber gets involved and proves they’re wrong.
Corporation doubles down and uses “nuh uh you’re harassing us” to come after the YouTuber, including sending the local police after them with some seedy connections (“hey cops help me out we go to the same church and I think this guy stinks”)
It blows up on the Internet and even more information comes out that they definitely had the legos, and they either deliberately lied, or were too incompetent/uncaring to actually look for the legos.
Now it’s been blowing up in their face because the company basically had a “nuh uh” countered with a “well then explain this” x10 and they look like assholes for trying to shut the whole thing down when they could’ve just gone “oh yep, we made a mistake, here’s your Legos back, our bad”.
But it’s too late for that now, and they’re in big trouble for it.
It’s literally the adult-corporate version of the childhood “I wouldn’t have been that mad if you told the truth, but you lied and cheated. Now you’re in serious trouble.”