{"id":697063,"date":"2010-03-21T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003526"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T22:41:28","slug":"family-with-shattered-tv-takes-best-buy-to-court-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697063","title":{"rendered":"Family With Shattered TV Takes Best Buy To Court, Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/bestbuy-thumb-153x114-38409.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Remember the Florida family whose sad story of <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/best-buy-sells-shattered-tv-in-time-for-super-bowl-party.html\">a smashed TV<\/a> we shared on Super Bowl Sunday? When they unboxed their 50-inch plasma screen HDTV, they found a cracked screen and a world of sadness. They took a page from the Consumerist playbook and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/local\/news-article.aspx?storyid=153589\">sued Best Buy in small claims court<\/a>. When the mega-retailer failed to send a representative, they won a default judgment.<\/p>\n<p>When faced with impossible grammar problems, you too can take companies that refuse to budge to small claims court. <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2008\/12\/how-to-file-a-lawsuit.html\">Here&#8217;s how.<\/a> But it&#8217;s also a good idea to check inside the box of your high-priced electronics to make sure that the item is intact, and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/04\/216489-paving-stone-in-a-macbook-pro-box-looks-nice-but-wont-run-photoshop.html\">not a paving stone. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/local\/news-article.aspx?storyid=153589\">Jacksonville Family Takes Best Buy to Court; No Show Equals a Win<\/a> [First Coast news]<\/p>\n<p><strong>PREVIOUSLY:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/best-buy-sells-shattered-tv-in-time-for-super-bowl-party.html\">Best Buy Sells Shattered TV In Time For Super Bowl Party<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Florida family whose sad story of a smashed TV we shared on Super Bowl Sunday? When they unboxed their 50-inch plasma screen HDTV, they found a cracked screen and a world of sadness. They took a page from the Consumerist playbook and sued Best Buy in small claims court. When the mega-retailer failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VkX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}