Articles on Consumer Law
My Contractor is Unable to Finish a Job he Started on my Home, What Should I do?
I hired a contractor to build a screen porch. He was ‘almost’ done and said he needed to leave town for another job he had commited to, but would find someone else to finish. We have exchanged some phone calls, but no one has shown up and it is now been three weeks. What rights do I have or problems may I have? My husband is a self employed handy man. He bought a shower tray from a company for one of his customers but when he came to install it he found it had a dent in it. The company won’t refund him the money because they say it was checked before he had it and it was perfectly OK and that he should have checked it on delivery. My husband says that it would have been impossible for anyone to check it thoroughly as it was sealed up with plastic. What can he do? I gave a business in Los Angeles two post-dated checks for $200 in April for services to be rendered over a two-month period. They subsequently changed the dates on the checks and forged my initials in order to deposit them early. Can they be pursued from a civil or criminal standpoint? We got a used van from a dealership under their auto financing. When we got home, my wife happened to looked for our van in the dealerships website inventory. She found out the price of the car was $1,000 less from what we have paid for. I know I’m somewhat at his mercy for I already signed the loan contract, is there a way I can demand this 1,000 dollars be deducted from my purchase price? Can anyone be locked up for ordering a few books in another person’s name?? I am being sued by John Deere for a tractor which I had paid $17,000 back 4 years ago. The indvidial whom I purchased it from never paid off the tractor and filed Bankruptcy. John Deere has filed a civil action against me for the tractor. I was unaware of any title on tractors and never research it to see if there was ever a lien on the tractor. Do I have any legal recourse in this matter? What do you see the court’s decision to be on this? I received in error a refund check from a company I purchased equipment from, they sent me 2 checks in the same amount. What is my legal responsibility and what would be the penalty if I cashed them both? I wont cash the other check..but I was curious to find out. I have a wife who is in her last week of pregnancy, she is having the baby next Monday. She had went to a local restaurant “Taco Bueno” and her and her mom ordered a meal. As she was eating one of her chicken burritos, she bit into a 1″ chicken bone. which cut into her gums. Later in the day (yesterday) she received a call from the insurance company for Taco Bueno, they were very nice, asked how she was, they advised that she go to the Dr. or Dentist to have her teeth and gums looked at, and to make sure infection does not exist. Are we able to sue? I live in Michigan and had cell phone service with Centennial. My 2 year signed contract ended in 2002. I canceled my service on Dec. 16, 2006. I just received a bill for one more additional service from Dec. 16, 2006 through January 16, 2007. I was told that in my contract it indicated I must give them 30 days notice to cancel, or I would pay an additional 30 days service after I canceled my service. With my contracted expired, how can they do this? I have signed a contract with a national builder last October and my house is one of the last two to be built in this phase (first out of three). I received a letter from the builder saying that, county forced them to change blueprints and my house is losing two windows in the living room. I think it might impact our selling home years down the track. Since the design isn’t what we want anymore is there a way to get out of builder contract? A contractor agreed to do some home repair work for me. The contractor gave me the vehicle title to an antique car as collateral for me prepaying for the scheduled work. Work didn’t get done, he claims he cannot repay the funding and the car seems to no longer exist. He will claim he cannot pay and has no assets that can be executed against. How can I discover if the collateralized car does exist? If this car was sold, does a case of contract fraud exist? Can I then file a suit in the criminal court? I just purchased a TAG watch from a well known jewelry store last weekend. Two days ago that jewelry store called me and told me that they misquoted the price of the watch and that I owe another $730 dollars on top of what I already paid. The purchase was complete last weekend, I have the receipt to prove it. Can they do this or is the sale final once I get my receipt? I entered a drawing for a room makeover from a furniture store (filled out a basic entry form). I won. We went to the store & met with the designer who had a grouping picked out for me. I did not like it. We spent the next 2 hours picking out the furniture we wanted. Then I was contacted by the tv news sponser of the contest and told that our furniture was not approved and that in the rules of the contest, it stated that the furniture was at the discretion of the furniture company. However, I never saw the rules. Do we have any legal rights in this situation to actually get the furniture we want? I recently purchased cigarettes over the internet. Toady I have received a bill from the New Jersey Division Of Taxation stating that I owe $3410.00. Am I liable for this. Is this not a privacy issue, especially if these records were supeoned by the state? They want the money in 30 days or they are threating a judgement. What are my options? I own a retail store and want to start a discount/loyalty program. Can I use a customer’s driver’s license as the discount card that I scan with my cash register each time they purchase? What are my legal obligations here? Do I have to send the book back if I never agreed to receive it in the first place? I don’t really care whether I get to keep the book or not but I don’t want to be constantly receiving this junk and having to spend the time to return it. I figure if they don’t get the first one back they might get the message that no means no. What say you? If I were to surrender my car to the bank, what would happen and for how long would I be harassed by the bank to get the rest of their money back? I had repair work performed on my vehicle. I received a phone call from them stating additional work would cost $900.00. They failed to charge me the extra $900.00 when I picked the car up, and now they want me to pay it. Do I have to? What can someone do about having a single debt listed more than once on their credit report, making their credit look worse than it is? An employer may treat an employee who is also a customer differently from other customers who are not employees.
