Comment Re:New form of measurement? (Score 1) 209
It'd cost more than $9100, even counting your time as free, to fight this as an individual. So companies know they can do to you what they please.
Not necessarily true. In many states small claims court doesn't allow attorneys (or at least it's not unusual to not have one). Fight it. That kind of mentality is why they try this sort of thing. If everyone they did this to took them to small claims court they'd think twice.
Got a "buddy" in the process of suing AT&T like this right now. They've already offered to settle for about 50% of what he was asking for. He's holding out.