Here’s a somewhat embarrassing legal question for you. Suppose a telemarketer calls me up and says, “switch to our tool, it’s twice as good and half as expensive.” I believe the message and switch. The recession hits, my business slows down, and I think to myself, pretty smart that I’m not stuck with that big monthly bill now that I have the new tool.

Then I learn that the telemarketer’s company was sued by the tool I used to have for false advertising and lost. Then I hear that lots of dealers who didn’t believe the “twice as good” claim and didn’t switch loss less business over the last year than I did. Do I have any legal grounds for recovering lost revenue, or at least getting a refund of the $500 a month I spent as a result of the now proven false advertising?