Can you be sued for using online promotion codes multiples times?

[rsuryase]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA

Can you be sued for using online promotion codes multiples times meant for first time buyers?

 

[eerelations]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA

Can you be sued for using online promotion codes multiples times meant for first time buyers?

Yep you sure can be sued, and if you are, you will lose.

 

[Zigner]

Yep you sure can be sued, and if you are, you will lose.

How did you figure that out so definitively? There are way too few facts to determine if the OP would lose...

 

[Antigone*]

How did you figure that out so definitively? There are way too few facts to determine if the OP would lose...

EE,

Now why on earth would you go to that other site, when this is so much more fun.

psst... Zig is right!

 

[eerelations]

Just mixing this OP up with another OP with a near-identical question but more information. The other OP had used multiple IDs to order tons and tons of one-per-customer stuff and got into some legal doo-doo over it.

OP if you knowingly used online promotion codes intended for first-time buyers only, then yes you could be sued. And if you are, you will probably lose.

 

[justalayman]

there is a possibility of criminal issues as well, of course, depending on all of the facts.

 

[rsuryase]

What kind of damages will be awarded to the company? Does the consumer have to pay the company's attorney's fees? Or does he just have to pay back the costs of the promotion codes?

 

[Proserpina]

What kind of damages will be awarded to the company? Does the consumer have to pay the company's attorney's fees? Or does he just have to pay back the costs of the promotion codes?

Actual damages, punitive, attorney fees. To give you an idea.

That's not even touching on the criminal aspect...

Much though depends on how likely it is that the vendor will actually take action. If you're talking $5 off a $100 pair of shoes, I would think it somewhat unlikely.

But if you're talking $2500 off new furniture? Oooooooh boy....

 

[rsuryase]

it's a $5 promotion code that used many times amounting to $500. If the consumer choose to settle directly with the company without going to court, does the consumer still have to pay attorney's fees?

 

[Proserpina]

it's a $5 promotion code that used many times amounting to $500. If the consumer choose to settle directly with the company without going to court, does the consumer still have to pay attorney's fees?

No idea. The Crystal Ball hasn't been seen since SJ took it in to be recalibrated.

But honestly, THAT is enough of a theft for the matter to be taken quite, quite seriously.

Incidentally, why does the consumer believe s/he gets to choose whether or not there will be any out of court settlement?

 

[justalayman]

they can demand anything .(ever wear a chicken suit? That could be in their demands)


a demand in itself has no force in law until a judge says: yep, that's what they owe. Then that is what you would owe but that requires going to court. Until that point, it is a negotiated settlement.

 

[rsuryase]

The company is in a different state, does it matter?

 

[Ohiogal]

The company is in a different state, does it matter?

FEDERAL CHARGES! Woo hoo!

 

[rsuryase]

The promotion code is for food discounts at restaurants. The consumer uses different email addresses and names to get the discounts. Is it illegal to use aliases to order stuff from the internet? The consumer did use his own credit card.

 

[Zigner]

The promotion code is for food discounts at restaurants. The consumer uses different email addresses and names to get the discounts. Is it illegal to use aliases to order stuff from the internet? The consumer did use his own credit card.

Please see the first response in this thread. Stealing is stealing no matter how you try to obfuscate the matter.