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Spark Energy Rates

Class Action

Spark Energy Rates

Allegations: Using a bait-and-switch marketing scheme by offering a teaser rate followed by a variable market rate without disclosing that the variable rate is higher than the teaser rate and…

Yelp

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Yelp

This email promo doesn’t deliver as promised.

Red Envelope

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Red Envelope

  A reader was able to catch this radio ad for RedEnvelope.com, a shopping website that is advertising “25% off almost everything” if you use the code “FAST” at checkout.…

U.S. Cellular Belief Plan

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U.S. Cellular Belief Plan

How long a period does “never” cover? Three years, says U.S. Cellular, making “never” a relatively short time. The wireless service provider promised consumers in 2010 that with its “Belief…

Urban Outfitters

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Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters recently ran a promotion in which they gave out 10% off coupons alongside collectible pins in the mail. Here is the e-mail that ran with the physical mail…

Best Buy Black Friday

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Best Buy Black Friday

If an electronics store sends you an email advertising a $2200 television as being on-sale for $999, should you actually be able to buy the television at the $999 price?…

Direct Energy Services Rates

Class Action

Direct Energy Services Rates

Allegations: Deceptively inducing consumers to switch energy suppliers by offering low initial rates and a month-to-month variable rate plan that is tied to the market rate when the company routinely…

Spark Energy

Class Action

Spark Energy

In December 2015, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Spark Energy (a supplier of electricity and natural gas) for allegedly engaging in a deceptive bait-and-switch scheme. According to the complaint,…

North American Power and Gas Rates

Class Action

North American Power and Gas Rates

August 2018: A federal judge granted final approval of the settlement agreement. March 2018: A federal judge granted preliminary approval of the settlement agreement. January 2018: Plaintiffs moved for preliminary…

The Rates at Spark Energy

Class Action

The Rates at Spark Energy

June 2019: This case was transferred from a court in Illinois to another in New Jersey where a similar case (Rolland v. Spark Energy) is pending. (Case No. 19-cv-14114, D.N.J.)…

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