Deceptive Sales Practices Archives

Booted by Parking Solutions? Fight back!

February 10, 2017 by Eric Stephenson

Parking Solutions, a Salt Lake City, Utah based company, issues tickets and immobilizes vehicles for various businesses around the Salt Lake valley. In some of these cases, they are doing so illegally. Parking Solutions’ deceptive practices One typical scenario occurs in the parking lot on the corner of 600 East and 400 South in Salt … Read more

Chase Fined $216 Million for Illegally Robo-Signing Affidavits and Selling Zombie Debts

July 22, 2015 by Eric Stephenson

If you owe JPMorgan Chase for a zombie debt or if Portfolio Recovery, LVNV Funding, Midland Funding, or other junk debt buyer has filed a lawsuit against you to collect a Chase debt, you may be able to get your lawsuit thrown out of court. On July 8, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau … Read more

Consumer Watchdogs are the Best Form of Consumer Protection

April 2, 2013 by Eric Stephenson

Consumer watchdogs fight for everyone’s consumer rights. Consumer protection legislation has been passed in every state to allow consumers to act as these watchdogs, legally known as private attorneys general, to protect and enforce their consumer rights when those rights are threatened by abusive or deceptive companies. In Utah, for example, the Utah Consumer Sales … Read more