CHICAGO, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A class action lawsuit alleging deceptive business practices has been filed against We Give To Get, LLC. We Give To Get sells gift certificates to a variety of merchants and purportedly donates a specified minimum amount to charities of their customers' choosing.
The statewide class action lawsuit filed in Cook County, Illinois, claims that We Give To Get "employed deceptive practices in the representation of their service."
The lawsuit is brought by Jay Edelson, Bill Gray, and Collin Bond of Edelson McGuire, LLC.
The lawsuit alleges that We Give To Get "unethically induces consumers to purchase gift certificates by untruthfully stating that 10% of sales or a $5,000.00 monthly minimum, will be going to charity."
However, according to the lawsuit, We Give To Get has failed to donate almost $40,000.00 to charity as promised in their Terms of Use. In addition, We Give To Get has continued to advertise and attract business based on the fact that they are donating to charities. Finally, contrary to Illinois law, the lawsuit alleges that We Give To Get attaches illegal expiration dates to gift certificates that are bought by consumers.
Recently, We Give To Get amended their Terms of Use to eliminate their requirement of contributing at least $5,000.00 a month. "This does not in any way satiate their contractual obligation to make the donations to charity. The promise of at least $5,000 a month to charity was a significant inducement to their customers," said Bond.
We Give To Get's Terms of Use promising to give at least $5,000 per month to charity can be found at: http://www.icyte.com/saved/wegivetoget.com/233160?key=4cb4e92322c738aee1698e0b41cf04ef830a2262
According to Gray, "It is illegal and wrong for companies to defraud consumers, but for a company to commit such malfeasance while pretending to be charitable—that is just unconscionable."
About Edelson McGuire: Edelson McGuire, LLC, formerly known as KamberEdelson LLC, is a commercial litigation and legal and political consulting firm with attorneys in Illinois, New York, California, and Florida. The firm's attorneys have been recognized as leaders in these fields by state and federal legislatures, national and international media groups, the courts and their peers. They have testified before the United States Senate on class action issues and have repeatedly been asked to work on federal and state legislation and policy issues involving banking, cellular telephony and consumer privacy. Their attorneys have appeared on hundreds of national and international television and radio programs to discuss their cases and class action and consumer protection issues more generally. Their class settlements are collectively worth over one billion dollars and have changed the consumer protection policies of numerous industries.
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