Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @10:32PM from the spam-spam-spam-pizza-spam dept.

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."'

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Re:Papa John by JackieBrown · 2012-11-15 01:13 · Score: 0, Troll

did not know that and now that I do, they are on my do-not-buy list.
in my area, they had semi-ok pizza but now that I know the ceo is like that chick-fil-a guy, I want no more part of them.
Like everything else, this is a perspective thing.
On Friday I will be buying pizza from Papa John's. This is the first delivery pizza I have bought in 2 years.
Now that I know the ceo is like the chick-fil-a guy, I want to support them.