lakea.net
Better on every front, clarity first, honesty always.
Three words are easy to write down. Below we explain what they mean concretely, how we live up to them — and just as important, what sometimes still goes wrong, and why.
Not "we have the most stores", but: faster price updates, honest stock status (including pre-orders), Amazon marketplaces shown only if they ship to your country, and no dark patterns. If something works less well than a competitor does, we say so.
Lakea earns money through affiliate links: if you buy via our button, we get a small commission from the store. You pay nothing extra. We never call ourselves an "official LEGO partner" if we are not, and discounts are always calculated against the official LEGO retail price — never against an artificially inflated "was" price.
We are a price comparison site, not an oracle. Prices and stock change every minute at retailers, and our feeds run on a schedule. So things sometimes drift apart. When they do, we tell you what and why — see below.
No marketing speak. These are situations that genuinely happen, with the cause attached so you can decide what to do.
The retailer adjusted the price between our last fetch and your click. We refresh most retailers hourly, Amazon four times a day, AWIN partners (Coolblue, Proshop, Top1Toys, Zavvi) twice a day. If the retailer's page disagrees with us, the retailer's price is the one that counts — we will catch up on our next run.
Stock fluctuates even faster than price. A popular set can sell out between our fetch and your click. For AWIN feeds we also count pre-order/backorder as available because the retailer does sell those — sometimes with a few weeks of lead time. In doubt, check the delivery date on the retailer's page before ordering.
We only show Amazon domains that ship to your selected country. If you are set to the Netherlands, we hide e.g. amazon.es even if the set is listed there. Switch your country in the top-right and you will see all relevant marketplaces.
Discounts are always calculated against the official LEGO retail price (RRP) — never against a retailer-specific "was" price. That is why a -45% at retailer A and -10% at retailer B can sit next to each other for the same set; both are correct, it is simply how far below RRP they are.
See something off? Email us via the contact form in your account, or as a guest at the bottom of the page. The sooner we know, the sooner we explain or fix it.
