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Originally posted by kddani
Hehe, i laughed when i read that- I just finished learning all about class action suits (took my final on it yesterday).... unfortunately I have a few more years to go before I'm admitted to the bar. And class actions are hard as hell to put through........
But it would definately be something that i'd love to see go to court.
For years business have been taking advantage of young people in all sorts of ways, exercising semi-monopolies over us.
I need to look into another class action suit that's actually in the making for a company taking advantage of young people- one of the chain stores like Express or American Eagle is getting sued because they make their employees wear that season's clothes. The employees aren't making very much over minimum wage, so when you subject the money they need to spend on the clothes to work there from the amount of money they're making, they're making well less than minimum wage.
Whoever got the idea to bring that to suit is a genius. I was offered a job at American Eagle in HS, they were going to pay me more than the usual starting wage b/c I had a lot of retail experience (TJ Maxx), but it was still less than what I was making at TJ's, AND i had to buy their clothes. Nope, I thought that was shady, and I still think it is.
Sorry for the hijack! 
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Hey, when people started saying energy prices were inflated in Cali (they were), suits were filed and should be won in most cases (if the companies are still around).
Textbook companies on the other hand are not nearly as careful to hide the fact that you pay almost as much for their product as you do for tuition. Their prices keep going up and up and up... has the cost of paper or textbook author really risen that much? Last I checked a prof would contribute a chapter at no profit to themselves in many cases!
We have 2 bookstores in the area. Do they compete? Hell no. Prices exactly the same unless one of them runs out of something. Then the price goes up on the one that still has it.
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