Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
by shostack on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:36PM
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How would you respond to views that arbitration outcome statistics favor the corporation paying for it?
Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
by pas on Friday December 08, 2017 @02:08AM
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A lot of consumers are indeed in breach of contract.
Even if socially not fair, they agreed to a contract that seemed like a very good deal at the time. That's because of the costs/risks they haven't foresee at the time.
Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
by philipodonnell on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:14PM
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Facts, not views. Facts says it favors corporations. It may seem like we live in a post-fact world, but here, I believe, you can still call a fact a fact.
I'm a litigator and I'd rather arbitrate small disputes. Litigation is absurdly expensive and slow.
I've had great experiences with AAA arbitrators. They were fair and reasonable. They kept costs down too.
My biggest complaint about arbitration is that its too much like court. I thought it could have been more streamlined.
I've even used it as a consumer. When Sprint kicked me off their service for using BitTorrent, threatening arbitrator got them to buy back my two month old phone.
Plaintiff's lawyers hate arbitration because they like dumb juries.