Utah Cpuople fined $3500 for writing bad review

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Utah Couple Fined $3,500 by Online Merchant KlearGear Retains Lawyer, Turns Tables - Yahoo


After an online merchant fined a Utah couple $3,500 for writing a negative review and sparked a financial nightmare for more than a year, a public service lawyer has agreed to take the case and fight back with demands for $75,000 in compensation.
When Jen Palmer of Salt Lake City didn't receive a Christmas gift that her husband ordered for her online, she wrote a negative review of KlearGear.com and moved on with her life. But the company fined the Palmers $3,500, citing bizarre fine print on its website.
"No one would have expected this from doing perfectly normal, everyday and perfectly legal things," Scott Michelman, staff attorney with Public Citizen who is representing the Palmers, told ABCNews.com.
KlearGear.com didn't deliver Palmer's online order of a desk ornament that was less than $20, so it cancelled the transaction in Dec. 2008. Jen Palmer, now 40, wrote a negative review on private business review site RipoffReport.com, saying KlearGear.com had "horrible customer service practices."
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I would think this will just about kill their business. Doesn't WickedFire have an agency that helps deal with shit like this?
 
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I'm waiting for that negative review filter that google made a while back when that one sunglasses guy was caught? Remember that?

Anyways those fuckers got a ton of links though. However their resellerratings went down as well.
 
A good lawyer is going to come along and meet a judge who doesn't put up with bullshit just because it's on paper, and they are going to get coned like I've never been coned before.
 
A company fined a couple. Since when do companies have jurisdiction? Bitch had it coming
 
wayn3 said:
A company fined a couple. Since when do companies have jurisdiction? Bitch had it coming
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Yeah I was wondering that too. Can't they just say "lol im not paying that," block the company's collections debt, and be done with it?
 
thehobbster said:
Yes but it's being reported to the credit agencies, which means it's going to affect these people's lives in many ways until those faggots get in trouble.
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How would it affect their credit though? Surely there are some restrictions around that. It says they bought a $20 straight-sale item using a cc and I'm assuming they paid the cc bill. So it's just the company they bought it from trying to "fine" them.
 
I don't see a non-disparagement clause in their terms of service anymore.

Did I read somewhere that KlearGear now owns the Albany Plantation and they still refuse to allow black people?
 
o hai guyz said:
How would it affect their credit though? Surely there are some restrictions around that...
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It costs $75 to register with Experian, then about $600 for the software to upload bad debt reports. I'm sure there are rules regarding "only reporting true debts", but clearly...they aren't enforced.
 
rish3 said:
It costs $75 to register with Experian, then about $600 for the software to upload bad debt reports. I'm sure there are rules regarding "only reporting true debts", but clearly...they aren't enforced.
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LOL $600? So for the most part, anyone can destroy anyone else's credit score. If it were $60k, or even $10k then it might make sense, but 600 bucks? That has to be the most ridiculous thing ever.
 
They're reaping the whirlwind already...somebody posted a new, and epic, review on RipOffReports: New RR review for Klear Gear.

Includes proof that KlearGear was using fake BBB ratings, faked Truste badges...and the ultimate irony: a freelancer.com posting where they are buying faked positive reviews.

Someone unraveled the corporate veil as well, finding the actual company, owner, etc.

Heh.
 
Who is the legal team that set that up? I know this is going to be unpopular in what would seem to be a bunch of consumers posting shit, but god damn, I want to hire them!

I wouldn't apply it to the extreme these people are, but there are plenty of cases of chargeback bullshit where I'd love to have their legal guy on retainer.
 
rish3 said:
They're reaping the whirlwind already...somebody posted a new, and epic, review on RipOffReports: New RR review for Klear Gear.

Includes proof that KlearGear was using fake BBB ratings, faked Truste badges...and the ultimate irony: a freelancer.com posting where they are buying faked positive reviews.

Someone unraveled the corporate veil as well, finding the actual company, owner, etc.

Heh.
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