California judge - Cell phone early termination fees illegal

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited August 2008 in The Clubhouse
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2008
    so if that passes, i wonder if i can call an at&t store in ca and get it cancelled. will it have the same effect on satellite tv as well?

    if it does pass, i see higher rates in the future...as if it wasnt high enough already.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2008
    Say hello to $500 free phones.
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,613
    edited July 2008
    It's a contract entered into by two parties knowingly.
    What drug is this judge using?
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited July 2008
    Are you really that surprised?
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited July 2008
    I will never have to cancel my service because mine does not stink like nextel and sprint. If you want a cell phone provider you can count on Verizon is the way to go.
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  • BrettT1
    BrettT1 Posts: 560
    edited July 2008
    ... I was a Cellular One customer and had signed yet another two year contract, (basically to get a new phone) and then AT&T bought them out. I already had a package for Dish, DSL and home phone all on one bill. Now the bill I receive for the cell phones is from AT&T. Well, I asked them to put it all on the same bill and they said I'd have to sign ANOTHER two year contract..?
    What's up with that BS? Does this mean the contract I signed with Cell One is null and void since they were bought out by AT&T? They really piss me off.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited July 2008
    This ruling means nothing. They'll get their fee, one way or another.

    On another note, I wish Verizon had a "cheap-****" plan for people like me that only use the thing once or twice a month....
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited August 2008
    I wish I did not have a cell phone, I got along for fifty years without it, but........

    RT1
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,613
    edited August 2008
    My cellphone will disappear 2 seconds after my company stop paying for it.
    They want it on my person 24/7. My guess is the latest management
    wants the same thing, but on my nickel. They are in for a surprize.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited August 2008
    It doesn't surprise me, coming from California and all.

    No offense to you who live out there, but they got some crazy people in the legal system.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited August 2008
    reeltrouble1 wrote: »
    I wish I did not have a cell phone, I got along for fifty years without it, but........

    RT1

    What's a cell phone - is that the phone you use in jail? :p

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  • candyliquor35m
    candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
    edited August 2008
    To me this a moot point. They have always been uncollectible so now the public has finally been informed of the truth.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2008
    You sign a contract, and are assuaged a fee (which you are told of beforehand) for breaking said contract. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. Phone companies offer discounts on hardware to get you to sign a contract which will guarantee them revenue. You then want to turn around and take the phone that you got based on a promise that you want to break, and not be punished?

    So surprising this came from California.



    (I know I'm a couple days late on this, I've been out of town.)
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited August 2008
    ND13 wrote: »
    Say hello to $500 free phones.


    Don't you know it. ;)

    A Judge doesn't realize a $0 to $100 phone can't be built for $0 to $100 and the cost is coming from where? I'm sorry he's no Judge which should be one.

    Do you know that's what America consumer wants? A cheap phone with a higher monthly?

    Did you know Japan consumer expects a higher priced phone with a lower monthly?

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,271
    edited August 2008
    I'd rather have the phone I already have, with a lower monthly.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited August 2008
    Yup, all this means is the US will go to the same model as the rest of the world: $200-$800 phones.
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited August 2008
    jdhdiggs wrote: »
    Yup, all this means is the US will go to the same model as the rest of the world: $200-$800 phones.

    Which would also mean lower monthly payment as mentioned.
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