(1) The situation is, Hotel, Health Club, Dating Service and Vendor Billing Fraud;
(2) what is needed, petitions in response to fraudulant acts against Hotel, Health Club, Dating Service and Other Vendor Billing Fraud companies to eliminate Vendor Billing Fraud;
(3) why it is needed, to obtained refunds for all affected consumers for this billing fraud. Check all vendor bills to make sure that charges are all for items you have agreed to pay for. You will need to review the receipt and any other documents provided to you by the vendor to investigate your claim.
Bills that are receive from hotels and other vendors should not include charges that consumers have not agreed to pay. For instance, we have represented consumers who have paid hotel bills where the hotels included non-tax charges in the final bill's tax line item. This deceptive billing allowed the hotels to inflate the tax charge to collect for non-tax expenses, which the consumers who had only agreed to pay the room rate plus legitimate taxes, had never agreed to pay.
State laws protect health club and dating service members from excessive and deceptive initiation fees and other deceptive sales and billing practices. A federal court in Allen v. Holiday Universal recently certified a class-action as to allegedly excessive health club initiation fees setting the stage for potential refunds by all members.
