What do you do with a broken box?

There are times in business when things "fall off the back of the truck," and there are times when things literally fall off a truck. A good example of the latter would be this Lego set that we have had floating around our back office here since before the store opened. Not only did it apparently fall off the back of a truck, but it seems to then have been dragged for 10 to 15 miles before being delivered. Now, we get the occasional item that has been dinged or dented while in transit, that's just the nature of the business.

Normally when we have something that's dented we just put it in a special category and sell it for a few dollars off. But in this case our Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser (8039) is a bit beyond dented. So in an effort to make lemonade out of lemons we have decided to raffle off this set!

That's right, this Lego set is being raffled off to one of our wonderful customers. All you have to do to be entered into the drawing is to stop into our store and sign up for our frequent buyer program. It's free and only takes a minute, plus joining will entitle you to 5% off any future purchases in our store. Signing up will also enter you automatically in our future raffles.

The raffle will be held on Friday the 24th of this month, just about two weeks from the time of this posting. The winner will be notified by email on that day. There is still time to sign up so stop in and ask to join our frequent buyer program.

PS: Because the box was in such bad shape we decided to build the set to ensure that all the pieces were accounted for. Everything is here including the 5 mini figures!

PPS: Brian did most of the "work" of putting this set together, life is hard sometimes.