Hi all

Personally I have written off the chance of getting any money back, then if I do manage to recover anything it will be a bonus.  For the sake of £420 obviously the cost of legal action is just way too prohibitive, and I'm not convinced about a class action succeeding in this case.  It seems as though we may be in for an easier ride in the future when it comes to class action lawsuits, but at the moment I'm not sure how easy it is to get something like that off the ground.  Plus the claimants have to be prepared to share the costs if they lose, as I understand it (but I am definitely no expert).   There is an interesting article online in the Telegraph today about class actions in the UK - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/26/ncomp126.xml  Not sure whether the proposed changes would affect the sort of scams Mobile Media have been running, but it is interesting the government are looking at this in any case (although I would hate to see the UK go down the same road as the US with their 'sue everyone' culture!)

It is the principle of this scam that particularly annoys me, as Mobile Media have based their whole strategy around the fact that not enough people would be able to meet the terms and conditions of the cashback agreements.  Clearly this was pretty stupid and irresponsible of them.  Even if the chances of recovering any money are very low, I would like to see some group pressure somehow put on the network providers and the government to wind up these cashback schemes where you have to claim the money back in installments afterwards and the network providers have no liability for the deals if the retailer doesn't meet its obligations.

I really wouldn't know where to start in terms of getting a group together to lobby the government and network providers though.  It would require a large number of claimants to get together I would have thought to be able to generate any kind of momentum or publicity.