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sheramber said:

was it sold as a collector's  item or just as a box of lego going cheap?

The chances someone buying it for their child would not be concerned about some bits being glued. 

Yes, I would agree, although as a non collector I would consider the glued pieces as broken pieces (the whole point of Lego to me being to build with it), if you buy a massive bucket for £5, you are not going to worry about a few pieces being broken.
Whereas in a collectable set, one or two pieces being glued probably affects the value in a big way.

They do say that it was expensive because it contained collectable sets, but that is not very specific.

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400ixl said:

pinkshoes said:

sheramber said:

i thought a private sale was a case of  'buyer beware'.

It still needs to be as described though.

The seller has since admitted that they knew some of the sets were glued together, and this is absolutely something that should have been mentioned in the advert and would not have been obvious at the point of sale. 

When buying Lego, you generally check if the pieces are branded Lego or fake. 

I think the OP has a reasonable chance of succeeding with a court threat, but a good starting point would be insisting on a full refund.

I'm not sure that it would be straight forward and you could argue either way. The opposite view to yours could be:

The buyer here was the expert. The seller had some lego to sell, they were possibly not an expert in whether some of it being glued together was a major factor in its value. If the buyer knew this was a major consideration then they should have asked the question or checked when given the opportunity to inspect before purchase. The seller would then be obliged to answer truthfully.

Sometimes as a seller you don't know what is relevant information and if you don't know you don't know. If however it could be shown that the seller was aware and deliberately hid that information, then that is a different matter, but how do you prove that?

There is a moral question that once made aware as the seller, do you refund and re-advertise with the new information, or take the view the buyer was the expert and had the opportunity to inspect.

A private seller doesn't have the obligation to offer any information, they can sell broken stuff and not mention it's broken, the obligation they do have is to be truthful in what information they do offer. 

I highly doubt the ad said the Lego wasn't glued together as that would be a very odd thing to say, so unless the seller made any mention of condition and it could be argued the Lego didn't meet that condition, for whatever reason really, then sadly for the OP they wouldn't have a legal right to a refund.