Are you a Disney Rewards Visa Card and the Disney Premier Visa Card? Are you sure that you are getting your 10% Discount at the Disney Store and DisneyStore.com on select merchandise purchases of $50.00 or more when you use your respective card? Well, you may want to go home and check your receipts, because you may not be. The attorneys at Consumer Protection Legal, LLC are investigating claims that the Disney Rewards Visa Card and the Disney Premier Visa Card promise a savings of 10% on select merchandise purchases of $50 or more at Disney Store and DisneyStore.com to Cardmembers who use their respective Disney Premier Visa Card and the Disney Rewards Visa Card, but fail to apply the...
Read MoreCorporate Rip-Off Schemes
There are many ways a company can rip you off. They can sell you something that is not what it seems. It may contain ingredients that are not appropriately labeled for example. They can also sell you things that do not function as advertised. They might break prematurely or are not appropriately powered to do the job for which they are intended. Another, more cutting edge way for companies to steal from you is to hide little charges on your pages long credit card bill. We, the private attorneys general at Consumer Protection Legal, LLC, cannot stand this hideous practice. It may seem insignificant to people, a four dollar monthly charge hidden on your statement under some indecipherable label, but...
Read MoreHow Can I Get Companies to Quit Calling Me?
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 gave consumers some rights to pursue private claims against corporations who call them without their consent. The idea was to stop spam calls from clogging up your phone lines and eating up your precious cell phone minutes. This was a response to the growing use of cell phones by consumers. The cell phone plans many people had in the early 90s were highly punitive for people who used too many of those minutes. And since robots calling your cell phone was causing people to use minutes they didn't have, there was a major expense being created for consumers they did not want or ask for. The practice still seems to be used in...
Read MoreMy Self Cleaning Oven Doesn’t Work
Defective Self-Cleaning Ovens Consumer Protection Legal, LLC is currently investigating claims that certain Whirlpool, KitchenAid, and IKEA Built-In Wall Ovens with a pyrolytic or high-temperature self-cleaning feature contain a defect that causes the ovens to overheat and break down when the self-cleaning cycle is used. Consumers have reported that their ovens have broken down during the self-cleaning cycle, rendering the oven unusable until the oven has been repaired at significant cost to the consumer. Consumers have further reported that they have been advised by a repair person that the only way to prevent future similar occurrences is to immediately discontinue any and all use of the self-cleaning function. If you purchased a self-cleaning Whirlpool, KitchenAid, or IKEA self-cleaning oven from approximately 2002 to the present, you may qualify...
Read MoreHow Should I Choose a Consumer Fraud Lawyer?
The choice of lawyer is an important one and should not be based solely upon advertisement is a common disclaimer required by state bar associations. However, there are thousands of lawyer ads bombarding the airwaves day and night if you still have cable television. The reason these ads are constantly running is because they work. They bring to the attention of consumers the possibility they may have a claim. This is not a bad thing, it raises public awareness of potentially harmful products being pushed by greedy corporate executives. The issue for those who may have a claim though is whether they are choosing the correct consumer fraud lawyer to prosecute their claims. The lawyers at Consumer Protection Legal, LLC...
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