Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts

jfruh writes "Nationwide pizza chain Papa John's is finding itself on the receiving end of a $250 million text spam lawsuit. From the article: 'Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish McGuigan, representing three Papa John's customers, alleged that the pizza delivery service has sent 500,000 unwanted text messages to customers. If the court finds that Papa John's violated the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the pizza maker could have to pay damages of $500 per text message, or US$250 million, one of the largest damage awards under the 1991 law, the law firm said. "Many customers complained to Papa John's that they wanted the text messages to stop, and yet thousands of spam text messages were sent week after week," Donald Heyrich, attorney for the plaintiffs said in a statement. "This should be a wake-up call to advertisers. Consumers do not want spam on their cell phones."'

Comments

it would have been more cost effective

[TheGratefulNet]

to just have pirated 3 movies and be done with it.

Re:it would have been more cost effective

[Quakeulf]

If they really want to get rid of so much money so quickly they could just fund someone's Kickstarter, or give it to me!

Re:Law Firm: $50 mil - You: $1 off next pizza

[Sulphur]

(hmmm.... can't stop thinking... a dozen more suits like this and the US economy would be growing... right?)

A gross domestic product.

Re:Spam tastes great

[6031769]

Rectangular squares? I suppose you need to differentiate them from all those elliptical squares we see nowadays.

Re:Spam tastes great

[dkleinsc]

So you're saying you want spam, spam, spam, spam, tomato sauce, spam, spam, cheese, spam, spam, and crust?

Re:Law Firm: $50 mil - You: $1 off next pizza

[azalin]

"gross" describes Papa John's "Pizza" quite adequately.

Re:If I get spam from a pizza company,

[Joce640k]

I'm going to order so many pizzas to be sent to random addresses with the name "sam spam" etc they're likely to get the message pretty quickly.

Be sure to order a spam, spam, spam, spam, cheese, tomato and spam topping.

Re:The law says...

[kbdd]

You don't spam the phone by sending text messages... you spam the phone by sending "emails" to @

I would like to hear what they tell the judge when he asks where did they think the messages would end up if not on a cell phone as a text message?

Re:Who doesn't want Pizza?

[jtownatpunk.net]

I fail to see what Papa John's has to do with pizza.

Re:If I get spam from a pizza company,

[tangelogee]

I don't want spam, I want pepperoni!

Well, you could order the spam, spam, pepperoni and cheese, that hasn't got much spam on it.

Re:Papa John

[MysteriousPreacher]

Because it's a job creator taking a brave stand against Comrade Obama. A job creator, cutting jobs and pay of already poorly paid employees, is an admirable stand against the communism that is causing the EU and Canada to descend in to governmental Orwellian surveillance, economic ruination, soccer, no freedoms and a whole bunch of stupid national anthems and incomprehensible languages.

I salute Papa John's financially successful and well educated Facebook fans. Fight for the job creators, not the White House Politburo!

Re:Who doesn't want Pizza?

[mcgrew]

I personally can not stand there food.

Why are you calling the GP "food"? And why can't you stand there?

Re:Who doesn't want Pizza?

[geminidomino]

Papa Johns is one of the better nationwide chains of pizza

That's like saying "Having electrodes pasted onto your nuts is one of the more tolerable forms of torture."

Re:Papa John

[amoeba1911]

Chick-fil-a: bigotry never tasted this good!