james
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Re: Cost of doing business
Advertisements do affect the general public, or atleast they have the capacity to. It's not like a person is being specifically targeted by the company, so they shouldnt be able to sue as an individual.
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KrK
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| Well, the thing with lawsuits works like this. If you've been damaged in some way, you can sue. You may not win, but you can try. When you buy an expensive widget that doesn't perform as expected you have a fairly clear case of damages because of your outlay. Now, to win the case you'd have to show that you were wronged by deceptive/misleading/lying representations of the product. If you simply picked it and did no research, well, there's another term that applies: Let the buyer beware.
Typically such lawsuits are very small and minor and do not create a "windfall" for anyone. There are some exceptions, like product safety lawsuits where serious injury or death occurs because of a defective product.... but then again, without such checks and balances you'd have a lot of unscrupulous vendors selling dangerous goods for massive profit.
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wxboss
This is like Deja vu all over again.
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| said by KrK  : If you simply picked it and did no research, well, there's another term that applies: Let the buyer beware. Great point.
Obviously the iPhone has been around a while (with substantial amounts of reviews, opinions and facts littered around the Net), so there is a certain amount of onus on the part of the consumer to 'do their homework' and filter out any misleading hype. Something I would think a life-seasoned 70 year old would be capable of doing.
However small the windfall may be for him if this suit succeeds, I'm sure he only had the best interests of other consumers at heart. 
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KrK
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| said by wxboss :However small the windfall may be for him if this suit succeeds, I'm sure he only had the best interests of other consumers at heart. He'd be limited to his damages (cost of phone + exit contract) unless it's class action. If it goes class action, the only ones who make windfalls are the lawyers. The consumers get a pittance back if that. (Sometime it's a coupon for a discount or some useless crap.)
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