A representative of the corporation, while taking over the store, expressly states that the corporation is taking over the consignment agreement, on camera and with several witnesses.
replyCourts are allowed to pierce the corporate veil when that happens.
replyThey absolutely are and a good lawyer, I'm sure, could audit the accounts and find some misdeeds - the issue is that the auditing and even getting access to those records in court is extremely expensive. To my knowledge there isn't a way to trigger that kind of a discovery in small claims so you need to go through the pricey legal system.
replyThe money in question here is the proceeds from selling a collection valued at 200k - the recovery (unless you start to get into punitive territory) is likely to be rather meager... and it's a large risk so there may be few bites on firms willing to take it on purely commission.
> unless you start to get into punitive territory
replyIs there not potential grounds here for punitive damages? The false police reports and harassment seem egregious even by corporate standards.
And the corporation is valued at $400 million, so it's not like the pot isn't sweet enough
In the UK you can make an order of information to compel directors of a company that is in debt to answer questions about company assets, accounts and records under oath. This can be done in County Court and my understanding it is inexpensive. I'm not sure how useful this is for carrying out an audit because I think its meant to be used for seeing if the debtor has the ability to pay. I think generally incorrect trading during an insolvency is meant to be discovered by the receivers during the insolvency process. Also, I'm not sure if there is an equivalent to an order of information in the US system.
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replySeems like it would be hard to know which blue Lego was Bryan’s
replyIt was sealed sets, still NIB, not individual pieces. No one would bother selling $200k of loose bricks on consignment.
replyLet me rephrase: “blue Lego set”
replySomewhere in one of the long videos, they mentioned that there were unique stickers on each of his items that he was selling on consignment. They had to have known which items were his.
replyThis is a collectible market so Lego sets aren’t fungible, so being unable to keep track of that sounds like negligence.
reply*grey, since it was Star Wars
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