DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | reply to hootabius
Re: Damn lawyers From the article:
'A Comcast spokesman said going through every bill for each of its Georgia customers would be time-consuming and laborious, given that the disputed charges go back to Oct. 20, 1999. That spokesman, Andy Macke, said while customers may have been overcharged in some years, they were undercharged in others.
"From a practical standpoint, you'd have to go through every customer's bill, see when they connected and when they disconnected and calculate the bill," Macke said, explaining in metro Atlanta alone, the company has 800,000 cable subscribers, the bulk of its Georgia customers.
"It would be an impractical exercise considering the amount of money on a per-subscriber basis that we're talking about. We'd be talking about less than one dollar."
So attorney's racked up almost a half million dollars in legal fees fighting for $50,000 in charitable donations while Comcast spent Lord knows how much more fighting that $50,000. Awesome. (Okay, I know that comment's a bit spurious; Comcast was fighting a judgment of any kind and I doubt they knew how small the number would be or I'm guessing they would have just settled from the beginning.) |
