Brick.ie The Irish Association for Adult Fans of LEGO®

Earlier in the week i picked up a copy of

in smyths blancharstown for the animals as it's currently on sale. when i opened it i noticed loose lego in the box and at first figured one of the bags did not seal properly, i quickly noticed that there was a lack of animals and sure enough all the animals had been taken, the box resealed and returned to smyths. this was not an error at factory, someone bought the set, opened the box carefully, grabbed what they wanted and returned it.

so when buying sets for valuable parts it looks like there's at least one [insert suitable name here] out there buying sets and returning them sans the parts afols are probably buying the set for.

smyths did allow me to swap the set and check in store that the new one was all there.