Starbucks Sued Over Cancelled Free Coffee Coupon
AP: "Starbucks Corp. was sued for $114 million Friday over its recall last week of a coupon that entitled the holder to a free large iced drink being promoted by the giant Seattle coffee retailer.
Peter Sullivan, the lawyer who sued on behalf of a 23-year-old Starbucks regular who felt "betrayed" when her coupon was not honored, accused the company of fraud and said he will request class-action status to include the "thousands who were misled" by the offer.
Starbucks just doesn't get The Internet. It's not a truck you can just dump a bunch of a coffee on. It's a series of percolators.
Previously: UPDATED: Get A Free Starbucks Iced Coffee. Not Really!
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Pelagius, as a law student, I say, hate the lawyer more. The large corporation is just doing what large corporations have to do. The lawyer, however, has a choice about being ambulance-chasing scum.
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Good GOD people ! Suing over a coupon for a free drink ? Are you sure you don't want to include Hellmanns on this one as well ?
Excellent analogy. Now I understand the Internets so much more.
At $4 each (guessing) and 8300+ locations that's 3 free drinks per location, which seems light. We may be lucky the ambulance chaser isn't suing for billions!
Class actions work so WELL because of the "ambulance chaser" mechanic.
You get to punish (at least remove the financial gain they got of all the people coming in for a free iced coffee, being denied, then paying for it anyhow) starbucks for being idiots, and other companies will be more careful in the future not to waste a bunch of other people's time.
I think starbucks should give everyone a chilled mayonnaise drink.
This is what lawyers do when they're bored. And when they're assholes.
Skeezy ambulance chaser vs. soul-destroying behemoth of a franchise. Who should I hate more?