BAM crossed out “consignment services” in its disclosure document in 2025 and again in 2026, then said “a third-party consignment has never been part of that model.”
Since at least 2014 the document had told buyers a franchisee “may also offer” consignment services, and had promised BAM’s own “specifications for programs we have developed” for them. The first line is in the version of the 2024 document that BAM’s own marked copy starts from, dated “as of 10.3.24,” six weeks before BAM’s incoming operators took the Salem store with a consigned collection inside. It is gone from the 2025 edition. The second line went a year later. Both strikes are in red in BAM’s own marked copies, and the franchise agreement in the current edition still says “Franchisee may also offer: consignment services.”
PRIMARY SOURCEBAM’s marked disclosure documents for 2025 and 2026, filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce (file 9006, submissions 33584-202504 and 36508-202605, document 07 in each). The struck words are on printed page 2 of the first and printed page 32 of the second. Each copy ends with a legend naming the two versions compared.
CONFIRMEDboth strikes, on the page; “consignment services” in Item 1 of every edition this site holds from 2014 through 2024, and in Item 11 of every one from 2014 through 2025; the franchise agreement’s consignment line in both marked copies, with no mark on it.
REFUTEDBAM’s statement of August 19, 2026 that a third-party consignment “has never been part of that model, the franchise agreement, or the operations manual,” as to the model and the franchise agreement, as this site graded it that day. Item 1 listed consignment services through 2024, subject to BAM’s approval, and the franchise agreement in the current edition still lists them.
The two strikes
When a franchisor revises its disclosure document, it files a marked copy with state regulators showing every change, and these two are BAM’s.
Item 1 describes the business a buyer is getting. Through the 2024 edition it listed what a franchisee “may also offer,” and consignment services was on the list. The 2025 edition takes it off.
Item 11 lists what BAM will do for a franchisee. Its ninth entry promised “the specifications for programs we have developed for customers to sell and/or trade-in their LEGO® products and consignment services.” The 2026 edition ends the sentence at “products.”
Each marked copy ends with a legend naming the two versions compared. The 2025 comparison was run on April 18, 2025, from “2024 FDD - as of 10.3.24” to “THE 2025 BAM FDD - CLEAN FINAL.” The 2026 comparison was run on April 20, 2026, from a 2025 version dated “9.12.25” to “THE 2026 BAM FDD CLEAN FULL FINAL 4.8.26.” So the first strike was made after October 3, 2024, and the second after September 12, 2025.
On April 17, 2026, Ammon McNeff certified to Minnesota, “under penalty of law,” that he had “read and know the contents” of the 2026 document (the certification).
Franchise Inspectors, a franchise brokerage channel, counted “four references to consignment” in a video published October 4. The edition on its screen is 2025’s. The edition before it has five, and the edition after it has three.
What stayed
The franchise agreement is the contract a buyer signs, and it is part of the same document. In the current edition it still reads “Additionally, Franchisee may also offer: consignment services.” The area development agreement says the same of an area developer.
BAM took “consignment services” off the list of what a franchisee may offer in 2025 and out of the sentence promising “programs we have developed” in 2026, and left the words in the agreement a franchisee signs.
In order
The editions in force when Bryan Mansell consigned his collection and when the store was taken, 2023 and 2024, carry both lines. On August 19 this site quoted them in the present tense (the FAQ, fact-checked); by then BAM had struck both.
The fair reading, and its limit. A franchisor rewrites its disclosure document every spring, and the 2026 comparison counts 1,686 deletions, of which this is one. A company that no longer wants consignment in its stores may stop describing it. The marked copies show what changed and between which versions; they do not say who asked for the changes or why. The Salem franchisees sued on March 27, 2026 and BAM’s counsel accepted service on April 21, so the record does not show that BAM had the suit when the 2026 edition was dated. BAM’s FAQ says the “consignment services” in its documents means service partnerships such as venue fees and party add-ons; no BAM document defines the words that way (August 19). The edits change nothing in agreements already signed, and the lines left in the agreements may be an oversight. BAM denies wrongdoing in the litigation described on this site, and nothing here is a finding of law. The right of reply is open to BAM.
The record
BAM’s marked 2025 disclosure document. BAM’s marked 2026 disclosure document. Ammon McNeff’s certification of April 17, 2026. The 2025 edition. The September amendment. BAM’s verified complaint. July 13: one sentence, four versions. August 19: the settlement FAQ, fact-checked. August 19: an unqualified apology. August 9: the consignment agreement. The Salem franchisees’ suit. The disclosure document, read against itself.
Sources. Minnesota Department of Commerce, franchise file 9006. Submission 33584-202504, document 07: BAM Franchising, Inc.’s marked Franchise Disclosure Document for 2025, created April 18, 2025, shown from Item 1 on printed page 2, with the comparison legend on its last page; and the clean 2025 edition filed with it. Submission 36508-202605: document 07, the marked Franchise Disclosure Document for 2026, created April 20, 2026, shown from printed page 32 and the first page of the franchise agreement, with the comparison legend and its statistics at the end; document 01, the renewal application with its certification of April 17, 2026; the clean copy filed in June. Submission 37254-202609, the amendment certified September 9, 2026. BAM’s disclosure documents for 2014 and 2016, and those issued April 11, 2017, April 16, 2018, May 22, 2019, May 18, 2020, April 30, 2021, March 31, 2022, March 31, 2023, March 31, 2024 and March 31, 2025, each searched for both sentences; the 2014 and 2016 editions are read from copies that did not come from a state file. BAMF Salem 1, LLC v. BAM Franchising, Inc., Utah Business and Chancery Court No. 260200029, the court’s docket: complaint and exhibits filed March 27, 2026; acceptance of service by BAM’s counsel dated April 21 and filed April 28, 2026. BAM Franchising, Inc. v. Schneider, verified complaint, Utah Fourth District No. 260402353, filed May 27, 2026, paragraph 24 and its verification; its allegations are the plaintiffs’, and the defendants dispute them. BAM’s statement of May 21, 2026, filed by BAM as Exhibit G to that complaint, and its August 19 FAQ, as published on this site. Franchise Inspectors, “Bricks and Minifigs & Legally Mine - The Craziest Franchise Story,” YouTube, October 4, 2026. Everyone named here is presumed to have acted lawfully.