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Lawyer here. Pure speculation/not legal advice: Theoretically, people who purchased complain to their state attorney general or report the manufacturers to the
by keithrl 11y ago
Lawyer here. Pure speculation/not legal advice:
Theoretically, people who purchased complain to their state attorney general or report the manufacturers to the FTC. There might be some recompense under consumer fraud laws. If enough people had bought them, there might be enough people to form a class action (doubtful though).
The problem is that amount of $ involved here is just not something anyone is likely to get up in arms about. It's $5. Most people will just write it off and never think about it again. No lawyer would bother either unless there were 10,000s of consumers willing to come forward and complain.
Just one of those shitty situations. Caveat emptor.
- ColinDabritz 11y agoIt's $5 for the cable, but you could potentially damage the USB C port on a laptop, and some rather expensive fruit branded laptops now charge solely via the USB C port, which you could argue destroyed the value of the laptop. That sounds like it might make a small-claims-court case sensible to me. (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
- bkmartin 11y agoI was thinking the same thing. And some of these guys would not be able to capably defend very many small claims suits at one time. I always wondered what would happen in that case.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoVery likely they're not even going to be around under that name by the time you file your suit, but instead operating under a different name. Good luck finding them in Shenzhen in order to collect.
- 54mf 11y ago"some rather expensive fruit branded laptops" So do some rather expensive shiny-metal-branded laptops.