LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A woman has settled her lawsuit against Stitch Industries Inc. in which she claimed she was lured by the furniture company’s advertising into paying prices for items she was deceived into believing were offered at discounts for a limited time.
Former Glendale resident Christina Thiele-Yancy’s proposed Los Angeles Superior Court class-action lawsuit allegations included false advertising and both intentional and negligent representation. However, prior to the resolution announced in court papers filed by her attorneys Friday with Judge Elaine Lu, there had been no certification of the case as a class-action.
No terms were divulged.
Thiele-Yancy had sought unspecified compensatory damages, restitution, and punitive damages. The initial pleadings included multiple color copies of ads she contended were misleading.
“While there is nothing wrong with a legitimate sale, a fake one …with made-up regular prices, made-up discounts and made-up expirations is deceptive and illegal,” the suit filed in December 2023 stated. “This includes statements falsely suggesting that a product is on sale when it actually is not.”
Stitch Industries sells furniture and home décor products online through the Joybird brand and website joybird.com. The website lists alleged regular prices along with purported limited-time discounts from those regular prices, according to the suit. However, the listed regular prices are not accurate because the company’s products are routinely sold for less money, the suit alleged.
“The purported discounts defendant advertises are not the true discount the customer is receiving and are often not a discount at all,” the suit stated.
The ostensible short-term sales prices are also untrue because the items are repeatedly set at those amounts, the suit stated.
Thiele-Yancy, now 41 and living in Santa Rosa, spent thousands of dollars in September 2021 buying an ottoman, sectional, and sofa through the company website, believing that she was getting a steep discount and that she only had a short amount of time to make a decision, the suit stated.
“These reasonable beliefs are what caused Ms. Thiele-Yancy to buy from defendant when she did,” the suit stated. In truth, the listed regular prices were not the true regular prices; the purported discounts were false, and there were no real-time limitations, the suit alleged.
“Had defendant been truthful, Ms. Thiele-Yancy and other consumers like her would not have purchased the products or would have paid less for
them,” according to the suit.
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