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Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box::NBC Bay Area’s Consumer team filed a report focused on faulty fridges, and then, viewers responded resoundingly about their own refrigerator problems....

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 43 points 9 months ago

Lol.

Any judge worth his salt will ask LG for proof the consumer agreed to arbitration.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

LG will say that by opening the box they agreed to the terms, Microsoft started that one.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's not proof.

What if the delivery company opened it? What if the consumer didn't see it?

Prove the consumer read it. LG has no signed document, nothing, proving the consumer read and agreed to this.

A software license is different - when installing you click on a button saying "I agree".

[-] Shirasho 38 points 9 months ago

There has been legal precedent that terms of use are not legally binding since they don't expect customers to read it before clicking the I Agree button. They have made the agreements so long and put them in everything that they concluded there is no possible way anybody would ever read all of it for everything.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Not only that, but your average consumer isn't very well versed in legalese to actually understand everything in them.

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