Posted on 11/14/2012 4:03:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
- Popular U.S. pizza chain Papa John's faces a $250 million class-action lawsuit for blasting customers with illegal text messages.
The plaintiffs allege that Papa John's ( ) franchises sent customers a total of 500,000 unwanted messages in early 2010. The spam texts offered deals for pizza, and some customers complained they were getting 15 or 16 texts in a row, even during the middle of the night, according Donald Heyrich, an attorney representing the class.
"After I ordered from Papa John's, my telephone started beeping with text messages advertising pizza specials," Erin Chutich, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement. "Papa John's never asked permission to send me text message advertisements."
The pizza franchises sent the text blasts through a mass text messaging service called OnTime4U, which is also a defendant in the case. When Papa John's was first sued in April 2010, the franchises allegedly ended their involvement with OnTime4U's text program, after the pizza company informed its corporate stores and franchisees that sending unsolicited messages to cellphones "is most likely illegal."
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Er, five hundred, that is.
$250 million?
Ruh roh...looks like a WHOLE LOT more hours are going to be cut.
People who pay to get texts or have a quota of texts that they can get, were probably not wise to sign up for a text-coupon service. Still, if I ran an opt-in service like this apparently was, I’d send maybe one single text asking for confirmation on the web site as to the volume they wanted. So as to respect the Obamaphone users.
Walgreens? That was happening to me even though I never signed up for it. If one listens to end of msg there is the prompt to cancel out. It worked and calls stopped.
Not being able to cancel such a “service” is a major peccadillo.
Yes, I thought Walgreens was rather respectful of such things.
Order online and don’t give a phone number. I’ve been ordering from their website for a few years and have never received text spam. Email, well that’s another story.
Ahh. My bad. I thought they were unsolicited.
That’s the story I’m seeing from some quarters. Anyhow it still seems to be bad cyber manners. It’s not as easy to filter texts as it is to filter email spams. You can’t even see where the text came from until you ask to download it, whereupon you get dinged (on Obamaphones).
You pay to receive the text.
You must admit, that's a bit different than me still having my receipt in my hand when they text me.
When someone locates and sues “Rachael, with Cardholder Services” I will know they are serious.” Til then, it is just tinkering around the edges.
By the way, a police whistle kept beside the phone, and blasted into the ear of the person who answers when you “press 3” is a good way of letting them know you’re not interested. It hasn’t gotten her to stop calling, though.
Where did you get that information? I can’t find it. I thought it was just a nuisance.
Cvs. Have to use mail for regular prescriptions.
I didn't say that,"I don't want them bothering me", I said it was stupid and it is. I'm standing there with my receipt in my hand and they text me to say you've just paid your phone bill". Who are they protecting me from? A stranger who is paying my phone bill? Nobody can make "money go missing" from my account, there's no money in it to begin with, the worst that can happen is that somebody else might attempt to pay my bill for me, it's not a bank account.
It sounds as if you're just looking for an argument. Is that your life? Picking apart anything said by anybody else at F.R.? If so, you need to begin to look for someone else to argue with, I have better things to do and I also have the ability to completely ignore anything else from you, so go ahead, have the last word, I can assure you, it will not even be read by me. Your type lives for " having the last word, so, go ahead, have at it and then go away gloating with the thought, "well, I sure let her have it".
Stupid is as stupid does.
Unless you have an unlimited plan, all carriers charge for text messages, usually 5 cents to send and 2 cents to receive.
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