Afobrick.com's December Promotion - Extra 8% Off Everything!

 

Afobrick.com's  December promotion now on, thru Dec 24, 2022!

The details:  All sets reduced from their already low pricing by another 8%.  The price will automatically be adjusted at checkout. No coupon code required.

Check out their latest selection of Lego compatible building block sets.

Free worldwide shipping and free missing parts replacement.

Shop now!

Afobrick's Secret Black Friday Sale 2022, Get 10% Off

 

Hey brick fans, it's Black Friday today!  If you are looking for Lego compatible sets, today is the day!

If you want to find all the deals from my partners, just search for Black Friday 2022 on my blog.  https://altbrickdeals.blogspot.com/search?q=black+friday+2022

So one of my trusted sellers seems to be pretty low key about his Black Friday sale and I thought I'd give them a boost.  Afobrick.com has an on-line store as well as social media accounts for Facebook and Instagram, but they don't seem to be screaming Black Friday sale like the other brick brands.

Here's the promo for Black Friday.

All orders get an automatic 10% off between Nov 25 thru Nov 30, 2022.  Because it's automatic, you don't need any coupon code when you checkout.

They've got a great selection of products and their prices are pretty reasonable. They offer free shipping on all orders too.   

That's it for now, I gotta get back to Black Friday shopping!

Unbranded Version of the Lego Bricklink 910001 Castle in the Forest

 

Hi Brick fans!  Did you guys find any good deals on the 11.11 shopping holiday?  

I found this replica of the Lego Bricklink 910001 Castle in the Forest set on Aliexpress listed for approx $60 CDN (approx $40USD).  According to brickset.com the OG set currently sells for about $650 CDN. I've seen this same fake Lego set sell on Aliexpress for approx $90 CDN, but $60 was definitely the cheapest.  The seller was really new and only had a feedback score of 6, but I thought why not give it a try because I could always raise a dispute with Aiexpress in case the item wasn't shipped or something different was sent.

I waited for a few days and kept checking the store listing on Aliexpress.  Suddenly, all of the store items, well over 200 building block sets, were no longer there.   The store was still there but it was empty.  I had that sinking feeling in my gut that is was Aliexpress dispute time.

A few days later, I checked my order and it was assigned a tracking number.  This typically happens for a lot of bogus stores so that you can't cancel the transaction due to non shipment.  A tracking number tells the Aliexpress platform that the item has shipped regardless whether it actually did or not.  During the course of the listing on Aliexpress, the tracking number never updated.

Instead of using the Aliexpress package tracker I decided to plug the tracking number into my favourite tracking app called the Parcels Tracking App, and now I could see my package was making it's way through the Canada Post delivery service.   Turns out my package had shipped on Nov 14 and arrived in Canada Nov 18.  And today Nov 23, the Castle in the Forest replica set arrived at my doorstep!

Sadly, the store from which I bought from has now disappeared off Aliexpress, so I can't even leave positive feedback for them.   Anyways, the replica set is unbranded and has a set number of 85668 if anyone is curious.  Piece count on the manual says 1957 pieces so hopefully it's all there.   If not, I won't really be able to get contact the seller since they are no longer on the Aliexpress platform.

Here are some other stores selling the replica Castle in the Forest version on Aliexpress.  Hope you can find a good deal!

Look for a full review in the coming months.  I currently have a ton of other sets to build and review, thanks to Afobrick.com, Funwhole.com and Sillbird.com, so I can't get to it any sooner.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to say for today,   Bye for now!