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It seems like it shouldn’t be legal to misrepresent another business’ prices like this. If it is legal, then what’s to prevent competitor x from circulating fak
by majos 7y ago
It seems like it shouldn’t be legal to misrepresent another business’ prices like this. If it is legal, then what’s to prevent competitor x from circulating fake ads with fake sales from competitor y, getting competitor y a bunch of angry would-be customers, and then collecting the disgruntled customers later?
Presumably there’s a general law preventing this. Is there?
- mysterydip 7y agoWould this be covered under libel?
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoPublishing materially false information (price) about someone resulting in harm (loss of customers) would seem to check the required boxes for libel.
- threatofrain 7y agoThe information isn't false. If you want the food delivered with X service it's available at Y price. Uber is mis-representing a driver's rates if in fact Lyft is cheaper for the same driver, and for all I know the driver personally offers rides at their own price. I expect a world where it's increasingly hard to figure out the price of things due to discounts, memberships, and "abstracted" pricing.
- BoiledCabbage 7y agoSomeone needs to class action them
- staticautomatic 7y agoClosest I can think of is tortious interference. They're interfering with a contract btw the restaurant and a third party, although the contract part could be tricky.
- chii 7y agoit's a verbal contract between the restaurant and the patron. I dont it'd be that tricky to prove such a contract!
- staticautomatic 7y agoA "meeting of the minds" is generally a required element of a contract, and there obviously isn't one with respect to the price, even if that's because of the interference itself. Nothing is simple in litigation.
- Thorrez 7y agoIt's this fraud? The delivery services claim sell an item for a certain price, then are unable to do so because the restaurant's actual price is higher.