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Unfortunately you’re going to need to pay the lawyers that won you the case too.
by afavour 3y ago
Unfortunately you’re going to need to pay the lawyers that won you the case too.
- coding123 3y agoThere's some guy out there doing this kind of thing without lawyers and wins every time, and is making a living on it. It was posted on HN some years ago.
- ronsor 3y agoSurely it can't be that easy?
- pavel_lishin 3y agoThe hard part is actually identifying the U.S. business entity. Or actually identifying the entity at all!
- jonathankoren 3y agoIpython. They’re posting all over this story
- rolph 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003348
- rolph 3y agothey are welcome to enjoy a latte and a few rounds of chocolate doom, anytime. also tradesies on office furniture.
- jonathankoren 3y agoSo? They did the work. No one complains when you pay a plumber, or gasp an engineer. The lawyers can take some office chairs as well.
- afavour 3y agoThe point is that if your potential earnings cap out at $10k there's a very good chance you're going to end up paying more in legal fees than you ever make in a settlement and leave yourself at a net loss.
- jonathankoren 3y agoYou don’t do it to make money. You do it to make them lose.
- afavour 3y agoI assure you most people do it to make money and the vast majority to at least not lose money. And they don’t even really lose anyway, it’s just a cost of doing business. Just spin up another company and get back to the call sheet.
- dclowd9901 3y agoThe cost of losing is small and the cost of restarting again is small. Meanwhile, the potential upside of even one call netting a sale is very large. I reckon two calls netting sales would have paid for this fine. We have hucksters abusing legitimate business structures. I think we need an “in good faith” escape clause for LLCs that captures folks that abuse them.