Red Sox Fan Sues Over Playoff Promotion

by the mighty midget on Nov 19, 2008 8:30 PM EST

Tom Rotunno of CNBC Sports has reported that Boston Red Sox fan Gisela Levin has filed a class action law suit against Taunton, MA based furniture company Jordan's Furniture. She claims their promotion, which offers free furniture to anyone who purchased furniture during a promotional period if the Red Sox sweep the World Series, is an illegal lottery and therefore against the law in Massachusetts. Jordan's Furniture ran a similar promotion in 2007 when the Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies, resulting in them issuing between $20-$30 million worth of furniture to 24,000 Red Sox fans for free. Jordan's has announced that they do not expect the judge to rule against them as precedents have already been established in their favor. This is a pretty stupid law suit but you knew something like this was bound to happen.

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Get money.

It’s the mantra of stupid consumers. That’s why we have the “Caution: Contents May Be Hot” and “Cape will not enable child to fly” labels on coffees and Superman costumes, respectively.

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by bdalebs on Nov 19, 2008 8:39 PM EST reply actions

Welcome to OTM, btw.

Nice team geography: Boston Red Sox, Orlando Magic, San Francisco 49ers, Penn St. Nittany Lions (FB), Georgetown Hoyas (BB), and Phil Mickelson .
This coming from a Sox, UF Gators (all sports), and Bears fan.

by bdalebs on Nov 19, 2008 8:43 PM EST reply actions

What a douche.

Pardon my french.

She bought furniture and was offered a slight chance to get her money back if the Sox won. They didn’t. She’s keeping the furniture, I’m sure.

I’m sure (or I hope) that Jordan’s lawyers had everyone sign contract regarding this promotion. Someone initiated a lawsuit last season too, but it didn’t get very far.

Manny ain't the only bad man.

by tommy.otm on Nov 19, 2008 9:38 PM EST reply actions

Interesting.

I’d be curious about the complaints in the lawsuit. To justify the suit, you’d need to be able to claim quite a bit in damages. Particularly for such a longshot case as this.

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by 0157H7 on Nov 20, 2008 1:03 AM EST reply actions