The states accuse EchoStar, the satellite television broadcaster, of failing to comply with consumer protection laws based on call response times, advertising, customer agreement disclosures, consumer complaints, rebates, refunds and cancellation fees, according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rebate, retroactive refund or credit given to a buyer after he has paid the full list price for a product or for a service such as transportation.
That would be consistent with earlier research suggesting that people spend around 20percentt of a tax rebate or refund within the first three months of receiving it and roughly 30percentt more in the next nine months, Laurence Seidman, an economist at the University of Delaware, said.
The civil suit also contends that Best Buy failed to pay rebates and refunds, and did not honor extended-service contracts, the attorney general, Jim Petro, said at a news conference yesterday.
As for the latest spate in North America, Samsung is offering to fix machines at no cost and a one-year guarantee, an exchange rebate, or a full refund for eligible customers.
The prime minister also criticised a bid to reduce the UK's rebate, the annual £3bn refund on part of its contribution to the EU budget.
The bid to reduce the UK's rebate, the annual £3bn refund on part of its contribution to the EU budget, came at last Thursday night's gathering of EU leaders.
Caving in to the Golden State and the big casinos (and in effect telling consumers to drop dead), the Nevada legislature in 1997 made it illegal to "refund or rebate to a patron any portion or percentage of the full value of an offtrack pari-mutuel wager".
Combines a deposit or fee (tax) on a commodity with a refund or rebate (subsidy) for implementation of a specified action.
Many governments don't know the full value of the subsidies they hand out in the form of tax refunds, rebates, loans, grants and more.
"If certain [countries] are unreasonable I'll try to reason with them but only up to a point … we need to have a little clarity in the rebates, cheques and refunds given to some and not to others and certainly not to France".
