Dallas-based Blockbuster will pay $300K to resolve California lawsuit

by PegNews wire

After five years of legal wrangling, it looks like the plaintiffs in a suit alleging that California customers were charged too much for their candy, popcorn and etc. by Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. is being settled. For virtual peanuts, in the grand scheme of things.

District attorneys' offices in San Diego and Los Angeles counties filed unfair business practices charges against the video rental chain after discrepancies were found between final sale prices and posted or advertised prices on a number of items sold in Blockbuster stores. The judgment against Blockbuster comes in the form of about $238K in penalties and $62K in investigation costs.

Which seems like small potatoes for five years of legal and investigative action, but I suppose it serves as a cathartic public-forum pee-pee whacking of the giant video rental chain.

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Jason Rice, says:

So these Californians, happy to pay the highest mortgages/cost of living on the planet, take exception to $3 Twizzlers as they pick up DVD's to rip for their DVRs.

I'm reading this right, right?

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Chris Kidd, says:

Jason, actually the japanese pay higher per capita for cost of living than california..But, unlike Texas, the state of CA takes a dim view of their citizens getting hosed by private business :)

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Jason Rice, says:

Well corrected. Thankee!

::getting hosed by private business

True that is reserved exclusively for the CA state government ;o)

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Pavel Lishin, says:

So their basic beef is that it was inaccurate advertising?

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Jason Rice, says:

Sounds like the barcodes on the Goobers were wrong. Them's a hangin' offense in the flakier parts o' town.

Fortunately, the have earmarked the money - nearly the cost of a CA lawyer and a half for a year, to educate consumers not to pay more than is marked.

What can I say? They are the most progressive of states.