Should I sue?

[FUMINGMAD]

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? IL
I took an expensive writer's workshop under the impression that it was a first rate and a solid program. Halfway into it -- I paid over half of the $7500 bill and then stopped attending or paying because of my dissatisfaction with the program. The contract I signed said that I'm obligated to pay the full amount. However, I feel like the course they advertised is not the program that I signed up for. In several areas the program is deficient and inferior to what they presented in the orientation meeting and sales literature.

Now they have turned the matter over to a collection agency who has already tacked on an additional $500 fee in interest and who is threatening to get a judgement against me.

Should I sue to get back my original money paid? Do I have to pay the rest of the balance if it did not live up to my expectations as expressed in their sales material? It seems what they presented was fradulent, misleading and possibly a bait and switch, since I was more interested in attending a shorter less expensive program which they advertised but they told me it was no longer available in my area. Then a few weeks after I signed up, the less expensive course was available again online.

Also what's the SOL in IL. My last payment was 1/03.

 

[JETX]

"Should I sue to get back my original money paid?"
*** Of course you could sue (if the SOL on said cause has not expired). After all, anyone can sue almost anyone else over almost anything. However, based on your post, it would be extremely unlikely, in my opinion, that a suit would be successful.

"Do I have to pay the rest of the balance if it did not live up to my expectations as expressed in their sales material?"
*** Yes. Your 'feelings' as to the validity of the material does not waive your obligation to repay as contracted.

"It seems what they presented was fradulent, misleading and possibly a bait and switch, since I was more interested in attending a shorter less expensive program which they advertised but they told me it was no longer available in my area. Then a few weeks after I signed up, the less expensive course was available again online."
*** Those are all possible claims you could make in court, but without a court order as to the debt, the obligation remains.

"Also what's the SOL in IL. My last payment was 1/03."
*** Presumably, this obligation is a written contract. If written, Illinois SOl for a written contract is TEN YEARS. And a judgment is TWENTY years.