Tesla beats lawsuit claiming it monopolizes repairs, parts::A U.S. judge dismissed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla of forcing customers to pay high prices and suffer long waits for repairs by monopolizing the markets for vehicle maintenance and replacement parts.

  • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    "U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco said customers in the proposed class action failed to show either that the alleged problems were “not generally known” when they bought their vehicles, or that they could not predict the costs to keep their vehicles running.

    “To be sure, plaintiffs allege that defendant misled them about…how much maintenance its EVs are designed to need and how long that maintenance ought to take,” Thompson wrote. “But nowhere do plaintiffs allege that consumers are in fact unaware of the supposedly supracompetitive prices and exorbitant wait times.”

    So, basically, most people know Tesla service is shit, so they should have known what they were getting into when they bought their car?

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      failed to show either that the alleged problems were “not generally known”

      That’s reversing the burden of proof, you can’t prove a negative.

      Also this:

      She also said customers could not prove that Tesla coerced them into using its services and parts simply because they had bought their vehicles in the first place.

      That’s a clear case of blaming the victim.

      It’s like that case where Elon Musk gets off, calling a rescuer a pedophile because he is butthurt. This reeks of corruption in the courts.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Corruption or rank incompetence and ignorance of how the law works. Either way, that judge should definitely be investigated.