As of this morning I now also have a text message from the reseller rep that he told me the phones were 800 dollar trade in value and I should owe nothing on them per when he looked them up on AT&Ts trade in site.
Considering there are hundreds if not thousands of similar claims on the official AT&T forums by consumers from all over the US at these type of authorized retailers and AT&T just settled a class action lawsuit in California for similar deceptive "bait and switch" tactics I would argue that this...
Yes that is true but fraud and/or misrepresentation would not be covered under that would it?
I also don't believe it's a contract per se as I have the ability to cancel at anytime without penalty. I guess more of a written agreement?
Yes, but have not sent the phones back yet for the trade in offer and if they are unwilling to straighten this out I am cancelling it and returning the phones to them.
That doesn't match up from what I am reading on Google from other law sites.
"Knowingly making false statements -- whether in writing, verbally, through a simple gesture, or even silence -- constitutes false misrepresentation if it has a material effect on the deal.
Contract fraud exists when...
Long story short was in a Super Target at Nashville and was approached by an AT&T rep and after discussing switching over from T-Mobile were told they had a great trade-in offer if we switched over. He asked for our devices and told us that we qualified for an $800 trade in credit and a free...