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December 30, 2012, 06:28 PM | #1 |
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Dick's Sporting Goods Customers Threaten Class Action Suit
Dicks may be in the courtroom for another class action suit. The long and short of it is that they are not going to honor purchases agreements made since Thanksgiving. So if you have something on order from them you might check on it.
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes...r-gun-ban.html Seems dirty to me. I am guessing they got caught short in the ordering of rifles and now that the prices are way up they are facing losses. That is just a guess on though.
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December 30, 2012, 08:11 PM | #2 |
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Posted on Dick's Facebook page:
I was in of a group of vets discussing Dick’s at the Patrick AFB gym this week. No one is going to buy anything at Dick’s as long as you maintain your anti-gun policy. We support the Constitution. You don’t. We’ll spend our money elsewhere. |
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It looks like Dick's is refunding their money, so proving damages would be difficult at best.
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Yep. Everyone wants to claim to be some sort of victim. When in doubt, threat to sue or sue, but what are the damages, as Tom points out.
I found this comment from the article cited interesting... Quote:
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I don't think plaintiffs would have any chance of winning. If you ordered an AR last month and tried to order the same one today you certainly would be out some extra cash.
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I hate Dick's. This just adds yet another reason. |
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December 31, 2012, 09:44 AM | #7 |
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I simply stopped doing business with Dick's Sporting – a few bad quarters and the knuckleheads that made this decision will be gone and replaced with clear headed executivces.
Boycott Dick’s and their liberal agenda
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December 31, 2012, 10:33 AM | #8 |
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Tom Servo, I am not an attorney, but I would think the approach would be:
I could have bought elsewhere for $900. Dick's only wanted $850, so I bought from them, not the other seller. Dick's took my money; a contract was made. Now, Dick's has refunded my money, but breached the contract; other sources now cost $1300. Dick's breach cost me $400, so I want $400 plus court costs. |
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Troy industries certianly have a good case for a lawsuit. They lost big time on their AR introduction which was taking place through Dick's sporting goods.
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December 31, 2012, 11:26 AM | #10 |
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If I were Troy I would sue for the list of customers with whom Dicks broke their contract and sell directly to them. This would solve everyone's problem quite quickly and cut Dicks right out of the picture.
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If this were to resolve one year from now and that $900 item has risen to $9000, $400 would not be a sufficient remedy. On the other hand, if this blows over and the market is awash in $700 ARs, there arguably is no damage.
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Others will have a better handle on this area of the law than I do, but consequential damages are a tricky area, and they're usually limited to 10% of the loss. So, if I paid $900 for a gun, Dick's refunded my money, and it would cost me $1300 to buy it elsewhere, I'd recover $40. The cost of even talking the matter over with legal counsel dwarfs that. This also assumes I can prove significant hardship to the court in the first place.
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These matters will vary by state. In my state, where a vendor or has taken a deposit from a consumer, and fails to deliver the item within a reasonable time, the vendor may be exposing himself to treble damages and reasonable attorneys fees. I do not know the facts of this situation, so my comment isn't anything like a legal condemnation of Dick's. If the fact of this situation is that the chain of supply so completely buggered that obtaining the ARs to fill very recent orders is not possible, then returning the deposits for recent orders seems reasonable. That is very much distinguishable from returning deposits on $850 orders so that the same items can be sold in new $1500 orders. In some states, consumer protections are not written to be evenhanded, but to give the consumer considerable leverage.
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So I should recover the full $400 in direct damages, and another $50 relating to the consequential damages of having to cancel the hunting trip. |
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As for the breech of contract notion, maybe, maybe not. Many store order forms have the noted caveat that if the ordered item cannot be obtained that a refund will be made to the customer. If Dick's had this on their forms, then they are covered so long as they either filled the order or refunded the money. There would be no breech of contract.
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Double Naught: Just out of curiosity, on the caveat, does it make a difference if the store decides not to make it available?
It seems to me the store decided not to sell them, not because of a lack of availability, but because they were worried about their image. There are still plenty of rifles out there, they are just much more expensive. Or is this the thing a judge would have to figure out? Thanks in advance for a reply.
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I don't believe in class action suits, or the American penchant for suing for that matter. I do believe in acting with my wallet and will avoid future purchases at Dicks.
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When drawing juries in less urban areas of my state, I find there are generally several people who do not believe in the propriety of litigation as a means to a remedy. Cynical people will say that this is a population smart enough to avoid jury service. However, my sense is that their reservations are genuine.
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I didn't notice any such policies in their online store, DNS. Most places only seem to advise of such policies if an item is on back-order. Available stock does not seem to prompt such notices.
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I also think we are overly litigious, but...
There is sometimes a legitimate reason for class action suits. Large corporations have lawyers on retainer or even as corporate employees, and they have funds for tort warfare. A large corporation can alternately file for delay after delay, or can have its legal staff come up with a multitude of arguments and cites. An individual or a small business, lacking these advantages, will go broke on billable hours for each delay and each counter-argument and supporting cite. This often results in individuals or small businesses not going to court, even when their case is strong or the large corporation's case is obviously flimsy. For one example, a long-established Mom and Pop Cuban restaurant in Orlando, Restaurante Uno, changed its name to Restaurante Dos rather than fight the lawyers from Pizzeria Uno, who gave notice of intent to file for trademark infringement, when Pizzeria Uno decided to set up shop at Church Street. Pizzeria Uno was able to win by bullying, when they should not have been able to prevail in court. Had a bunch of restaurants, using Uno somewhere in their names, been able to band together, Pizzeria Uno might have actually had to prove a case - which I do not think they could have done. So, the idea behind a legitimate class action suit is that it allows multiple Davids to stand against Goliath. |
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Look at it from a different POV: Say that you need a tree removed from your yard. You hire Jimbo's lawn service to do the work next week and pay $100 up front. A few days later though Jimbo decides that he actually hates working on trees, tells you that he won't do the job and gives you your money back. Now you're looking at other services and can't find anything cheaper than $200. Do you have grounds to sue Jimbo? Frankly, I'd expect that case to be laughed out of court... Now Troy Defense... they may very well have grounds to sue Dick's. Depending of course on the terms of their manufacturing contract. |
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Merad, for your example to match mine, other services would have to have been available when the contract was made, that would have cost a lot less than $200.
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