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Oh for f*uck's sake

1 million in compensation? For what, emotional damages?

\"C. Jean Wang of Wang Law Offices\".

Is this anything like Rob Enderle of The Enderle Group?

[cough] A group of two! [/cough]

If the store credit was so bad that a lawsuit is called for, everyone participating th the suit should forfeit theirs and take their chances with the lawyers.
The lawyers, BTW, will clean up, while the whiners *might* end up with a $10.00 gift card.
Go ahead, make my day

Somebody pass me a 2 x 4… I feel the need to dispense some common sense.

sue sue sue sue sue so sue me.

my titanium lappy is now obsolete. i think i should sue apple for the price drop from a few years ago.

makes complete sense. the same with my car.

How do you get $1 million based on a price difference of (at most) $200? Emotional distress?

She was apparently OK with paying $499 for a 4GB model when she bought it. If Apple did not lower the price, she would continue to be OK with that price on September 5th. But Apple lowered the price, so she is actually up a $100 credit at the Apple Store; she's not out $200 because that's money already spent.

Crazy people...

Dongmei Li needs a Li-ttle spanking.

Tort! I am so sick of this crap.

Let's see $499 for iPhone 4g
less  restocking fee $75
$424 less $399 for new iPhone 8g
thats $25

She is suing because Apple will pay her $25 if she returns her old phone and gets a new phone.

Huhhhhhzhzhzhzhzh!!!!!!!!!

Uh Huh Huh You said Dongmei

What a country! What a company!
Only Apple could be sued for dropping prices! I think they should be sued for adding new features. I think we ought to sue everyone for adding new features! That means MS is safe!

I vote for the giant bunny. Let's all get really baked first.

ONE MILLION?!! For what? So she can get an education?? Okay, that's believable. Someone needs to be educated here and by the shear stupidity of this lawsuit it is going to take more than a million to educate this dumb rock of human being. SO SICK AND TIRED OF CLUELESS PEOPLE.

Can we just ship them off the planet? Seriously. We all have better things to do than end up paying for this stupid lawsuit through increased pricing.

^ Hey LOL, you IDIOT!

The word is SHEER, not SHEAR.

Talk about stupidity.

Missed opportunity.
If she had left her iPhone at the dry cleaners, she could have sued for hundreds of millions of dollars. Keep up people.

This is why our legal system needs to adopt a "loser pays" policy.

Notice the word 'loser' contains just a single 'o'.

Kasper Jade.

Dongmei Li.

C. Jean Wang.

Sounds like the cast party for an Asian chopsocki flick.

- tclash . . . OUT!

How has our country (world) gotten so f***ed-up???? Tar and feather the lawyers!!!

Cull the race of plaintiffs and lawyers like this.

Whatever her hurt, the fact is she bought a product at a price she was happy to pay, and -- importantly -- it presumably continues to do the job she purchased it for.

My old SE/30 still works, but I don't sue Apple because for half the price I can now buy a wango-tango 24" iMac

In the suit, filed Sept. 24 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Queens resident Dongmei Li accuses the parties of price discrimination, underselling, discrimination in rebates, deceptive actions, and other wrongdoings

A Mets fan. That figures! Those blowhards love to complain.

GO PHILLIES!

haaaaaa haa *said like nelson*
her name is Dongmei!

now, that my inner 7th grader has been satisfied, i think this is absolutely ridiculous. i have to agree with Dave Smith… why not sue every auto maker/dealer?? vehicles lose waaay more value in waaay less time (as in the moment you sign the dotted line), but no one seems to be dialing up lawyers over that… they just except it. it just blows my mind that ppl are so greedy and ridiculous… but then, it also blows my mind that i can even be remotely shocked at something like this. "i can't sell my iphone for a profit now." not crap, who buys something, uses it, and expects to sell for a profit?? a dumbarse… that's who. if she bought 30 or 'em and turned around selling 'em on ebay new in the box, that would be a diff story. whatta idiot!

I have to say that I was hoping to sell the 4GB in short order to trade up, and was disgruntled to realize that the hit I'd planned to take had just gotten too big to be reasonable... But didn't Capt. Steve-o say something about don't drive in the technology lane if you don't want to run out of gas, or something like that? Anyway. Whatever. The iPhone rules and since I don't use it for video I figure 4GB will be fine for a long time.

Here in Europe you sometimes get the impression that everybody is suing everybody in the US, it seems suing is in someway a national pastime.

12(b)(6): failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

I think she seriously overestimated the resale price on these things... yikes!

It would be great to see Li & co. stuck with the legal bills and punitive damages after this is thrown out. If it did win, the lawyers would likely keep the money while the alleged victims would probably end up with a $10 gift card for the iTunes store.

@ Henri - You somtimes get that impression being in the USA!

I hope she loses and has to pay Apple's legal fees.

If Li and the others were hoping to resell their iPhones for a fat profit, they were acting as speculators, which is a risky business. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes you lose big. She needs a good slap (along with the other litigators in her suit).

@Henri
I live here in the US, and feel it's waaaaaay outta control. You don't see suing any and everybody over any and every little thing anywhere but here. I think it's an occupation of sorts… ppl too lazy to work daily wanting an "easy buck." Buncha losers! Making everyone pay by driving prices up… the companies have to recoup the money somehow… the suers are to stoopid to realize they're paying the price for it along with everyone else. Whatta lotta idiots!

And the complete fucking lunacy continues.

Can we file a class action against the two of them for damaging the reputation of Asians everywhere with this ridiculous lawsuit? I think $1 Trillion in damages would do nicely.

MW: taken... can this really be taken seriously?

What a FSCKING Joke..

If you are an early adopter then sometimes you get hit, How would you like to have one of the first Plasma TV's only to see how cheap they are now..

From TeachMeFinance.com:

Caveat Emptor -- Let the buyer beware, which is to say the purchaser buys at his or her own risk.

From Oxford-English dictionary:

Caveat Emptor - the principle that the buyer is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before purchase.

— ORIGIN Latin, ‘let the buyer beware’.

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The plaintiffs don't have a leg to stand on.

CASE DISMISSED !!!!!!!!

Did anyone happen to notice that the second generation RAZR is $499 or $299 with a 2 year plan... What a ripoff.

My favorite, of course, is the $1,000,000 in "damages" over her purchase of a $499 phone. How the heck did she come up with that one?

She, like thousands of others, the suit claims, is now the victim of price discrimination in that she cannot resell her iPhone for the same profit as customers who purchased the device after price drop.

So she is suing because she can't make as much profit as others selling USED merchandise....O.K.

@Larry tate
How has our country (world) gotten so f***ed-up????

It is the mentality of entitlement and no personal responsibility. "The government will take care of me so I don't have to pay attention and I am entitled to whatever it is I need."

That's what happens when people become dependent on the government for their every need through socialist style policies.

So su mi

I believe that she signed a 2 year contract - What is this Trade Up shit she is pulling out of her ass..... and she got back $100 for her 4GB phone and I also got $100 for my 8GB so she got compensated even more.

You know she was trying to make a profit by selling on eBay and she is mad that Apple made enough phones to meet demand and she could not sell hers.. TOO BAD

MW=future as in nothing is future proof

Wow, I'm an attorney, and I didn't know that any company from whom you buy a product has to guarantee price protection in the event you want to resell it to a third party.

Hey, where's my old 3G iPod? Lawsuit!

She had to have bought her 4 GB iPhone at least two weeks before the price drop was announced, otherwise she could have returned it and gotten her money back from Apple. And AT&T;gives you 30 days to return it.

I guess Motorola, Nokia, LG, etc. should be prepared for similar lawsuits involving their phones.

@Jeff
This has nothing to with dependence on government -- it has to do with people wanting to make a quick buck abusing a system which does not discriminate between reasonable and unreasonable suits.

I'm going to file suit on Ford and Shell because I purchased a New Ford F450 Truck and Ford 2 months later is giving customers a $7,000 rebate and the price drop $3,000 while Shell raised the price of Gas to over $3.00/gallon.
This is an Attorney looking to make a name and cash in. Bet the attorney is working on contingency fees and they are hoping Apple and AT&T;settle out of court.

Sue, sue, sue, sue, sue aaaarrrrgggghhhh..

Why do people always think they are entitled to a free ride.

I sincerely hope the UK never becomes the litigation state America has become. It's pathetic.

No offense like!

Actually Apple made ATT cut that to 14 days for the iPhone

This is ridiculous. Yeah, it's frustrating. But Apple took an amazing move in offering the $100 credit. Give me a break.

Maybe she really is emotionally destroyed over this. . .BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! ! Sorry. I tried to keep a straight face.

YES!!!! I hope she wins!! Apple is becoming the new Microsoft. I hope we all get compensation from this lawsuit and we get our other $100 back Apple shafted from us. On another note I hope Apple fixes all those phones that are not usable because of their stupid stand on unlocked phones. It is our legal right to unlock our phones, but it if they want re-lock at least let them operate in a locked state with AT&T;. STUPID APPLE AND AT&T;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently it is time for the courts to start assigning court costs (including the cost of the defense's attorneys) to plaintiffs in cases such as this. And make the lawyer who filed the lawsuit (i.e. the person who should have advised this was not a good idea) pay 50% of it. And rip a strip off the filing lawyer a mile wide just for good measure, in front of everybody.

In other words, if you are so brain dead stupid as to file a brain dead stupid lawsuit, and you manage to find a brain dead stupid lawyer to do it for you, wasting court admin time, the court's time, the defense's time, your stupidity will cost you.

You will be amazed at how quickly the stupid cases will go away.

This is not to discourage reasonable cases, just stupid ones, and, since the judge is already making a judgment on the merit, this is a very minor, easy change.