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Keys Phone Wallet - Tony Simon is an Atlanta-based writer, podcaster, drummer, homebrewer, and all around people skills haver
Hey, did you hear the makers of Vibram FiveFingers settled a class-action lawsuit to the tune of $3.75 million? You didn’t? That’s strange. It’s only been covered by every blog and news organization from NPR to Outside Magazine to The Wall Street Journal to The Christian Science Monitor to … um … The Omaha World Herald . Not to mention the dozens of time it was posted and re-posted in my Facebook news feed.
Some modest Googling informs me Runner’s World has the best summary of the actual lawsuit and resulting settlement.
What I find most striking is the celebratory, “I told you so!” tone in most of these articles (and ALL of the Facebook posts). It’s as though critics of those creepy shoes with the individual toes have busted Vibram deliberately trying to deceive its own customers with LIES and FALSE ADVERTISING. Some even posit the very logical argument that agreeing to settle a lawsuit while not agreeing to any wrongdoing means their products ACTUALLY WRECK YOUR FEET .
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Keys Phone Wallet - Tony Simon is an Atlanta-based writer, podcaster, drummer, homebrewer, and all around people skills haver