Class Action Lawsuit filed against XM for outage
Friday, June 1, 2007 at 7:16 AM
Tags: 2, XM
A class action lawsuit has been filed against XM Satellite Radio for the outage in service experienced late last month.
The two folks from Alabama who filed for the class action are seeking damages for being charged for the service while it was down. Yet, uhm, XM has already offered credit for the downtime, resulting in an 87-cent refund.
Brilliant.
[Consumerist]
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ROTFLMAO is the NAB paying for their lawyer?
Posted by: jeff | June 1, 2007 8:50 AM
Are these two from of the "League of Rural Voters"?
Posted by: CJ Red ? | June 1, 2007 9:34 AM
Are these two from of the "League of Rural Voters"?
Posted by: CJ Red ? | June 1, 2007 9:34 AM
Let's see....I enjoy the service XM provides. I have been told by my lawyers...uh...I mean...I feel that I have been harmed because the service was down for 23 hours because of technical difficulties. Although XM has offered to compensate for the time it was down (much of it while I was asleep and/or at work), I have been harmed. I am a doucebag.
C'mon, folks!!! What possible damage could there be that making your service provider pay its lawyers to have your stupid suit thrown out. See, that adds to company expenses and eventually leads to increased charges to the subscribers. Smooth move, Exlax...
Posted by: iband | June 1, 2007 9:38 AM
And the chance that each member of the class will actually get 87 cents? Next to none, after paying the legal fees.
Posted by: MikeV ? | June 1, 2007 10:18 AM
Some lawyers really have nothing better to do...
Posted by: MikeHunt ? | June 1, 2007 10:36 AM
They have got to be thinkin' BIG BUCKS for this.. let's see... hmmm... 87 cents just doesn't cut it, let's sue for five big ones.. five dollars.. that should break them.. or... a whole month free, they'll never go for that... or.... hmmm.. threaten to leave XM if they don't promise to ever have that happen again... whadaya say bubba.. Billy Bob.. Jim Bob... and Horace Bob atty at laws ociffe....
Posted by: hard harry hardon | June 1, 2007 10:50 AM
Class action lawyers are the lowest -- they give the impression that they are helping a class of folks, but for most of these cases (not all), they are using the folks for cash. They always come out better than those in the class being represented.
Posted by: iband | June 1, 2007 10:54 AM
Leave it to Alabama, ground zero for intellectualism.
Posted by: Toucan Sam | June 1, 2007 11:06 AM
I love when news outlets cover stupid stories like this, some people are only looking to get their names in print or have their insane actions reported on... why don't we as a society just ignore the idiots in the world?
Posted by: Hey Now | June 1, 2007 11:26 AM
How about we sue for Orbitcast being down for an hour that same day. Just kidding Ryan.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward | June 1, 2007 11:41 AM
Honestly that outage pissed me off more than anything. I'm still fighting it out with my webhost over that one.
Posted by: Ryan Saghir ? | June 1, 2007 11:53 AM
maybe its a strategy. It does look bad from teh outside to those who dont subscribe. Why would you pay money for something that could potentially crash. Or yea maybe they are just pathetic.
Posted by: dave | June 1, 2007 1:06 PM
Gotta love the hayseeds.
Posted by: Sollus ? | June 1, 2007 1:48 PM
Why am I not surprised a story this S-T-U-P-I-D comes from a cesspool like Alabama?
Posted by: Mississippi Boy | June 4, 2007 2:04 AM