Deceptive Discount Offers

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

Shell Ski Free® Class Action Settlement

The lawsuit claims that the Ski Free® promotion at many Shell-branded fuel stations in Oregon, Michigan, Washington, and California is in fact not a free skiing program, rather it is a "buy one get one free" voucher.  There are also many date, time, resort, and other limitations.  The plaintiffs claim that this violates various state consumer  Read more

Justice Stores False Discount Settlement

This settlement resolves a class action alleging that Justice violated state common law and consumer law with deceptive sales and marketing practices, because it claims that everything in its stores is on sale for 40% off the regular price, when in fact the “sale” price is the regular price.  Read more

Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s Targeted for Price Scheming

This lawsuit alleges that Macy's and Bloomingdale violates state consumer protection laws by labeling merchandise as a sale price off an "original" price that never existed.  Read more