When Life Hands You Lemons, Get a New Cell Phone

The Lemon Law may soon be in effect in Illinois. Not for automobiles but rather, cell phone users.

 

The Illinois House has approved cell phone legislation which will now move into the state Senate. The law is designed to assist consumers who keep getting stuck with faulty cell phones. 

 

Its three strikes and you’re out for mobile phone manufacturers in Illinois. Users, who are presented with three faulty phones over the life of their contract, will be allowed to terminate that contract without penalty. 

 

But, why stop there? If consumers want to get a new phone in less than two years, just to get a new phone, they are smacked with a major early termination fee. But the companies are allowed three chances to provide a working device, and the buyers reward is simply no extra fee?  How about service refunds for the company not living up to their end of the contract?

 

[Via ABC7 Chicago]