Deceptive Discount Offers

California Cole Haan False Reference Price, Fake Discount Class Action

In California, it’s not legal to advertise the “original prices” of items unless the items were actually offered for sale at those prices within the immediately preceding three months. This class action alleges that Cole Haan outlet stores violated those California laws in inventing false “original prices” for items that were never on sale at  Read more

Nine West False Reference Pricing Fake Discount Class Action

This class action alleges that Nine West advertises false discounts on the merchandise in its outlet stores using false reference prices—that is, the complaint claims, the store marks its items with a false “original price,” even when the items were never offered at that price, and then claims that the current price is a big  Read more

Talbots Outlets California False Reference Pricing Class Action

When a store claims to have discounted an item from its “regular” price, but it never actually sold the item at the “regular” price, that’s known as false reference pricing. That’s what this complaint alleges that Talbots California outlet stores have engaged in.  Read more

New York & Company Outlet Stores False Discount California Class Action

New York & Company Stores, Inc. operates both regular and outlet stores in California that sell women's clothing and accessories. This class action alleges that the company offered false discounts in its outlet stores, suggesting that merchandise had originally been offered in at higher prices. In fact, the complaint alleges much of the merchandise has  Read more

Art.Com Fake Discount Class Action Settlement

This is a settlement of a lawsuit in which Art.com, Inc. was accused of deceptive price comparison and deceptive advertising for selling products at false “sale” prices when in fact the products were continuously sold at those prices. Art.com made these sales through the websites www.art.com, www.posters.com, and/or www.allposters.com.  Read more

Visionworks “Buy One, Get One Free” Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that Visionworks' "Buy One, Get One Free" eyeglasses offer was misleading because the price of the first pair of eyeglasses was significantly increased.  Read more

GNC Gold Club Class Action Lawsuit

This class action lawsuit claims that when GNC discontinued its popular Gold Club program, millions of consumers were unable to receive the benefits of the program for the full one-year period contemplated when they paid to join the program.  Read more

Harbor Freight Tools Pricing Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that Harbor Freight violated the law by advertising merchandise as “on sale” or “comp at” that had not been sold at the stated regular or “comp at” price for 28 of the preceding 90 days.   Read more

Connecticut Discount Power Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that Discount Power falsely claimed in its contracts with customers that its variable rate for electricity supply services would fluctuate based on changes in the “wholesale power market,” but in practice failed to decrease its variable rate when wholesale market rates went down.   Read more

Camel Cash Class Action Settlement

Plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that RJR breached a contract related to the Camel Cash program by failing to offer as Camel Cash rewards non-tobacco merchandise during the period October 1, 2006 through March 31, 2007.  Read more