Posted On: June 23, 2008, 3:18 pm CDT

Posted By: Cindy

If arbitration is so good for consumers why do businesses make it mandatory and fight to keep it enforceable even when it's a violation of people's rights? I know a few things about arbitration in consumer contracts after having ESCAPED having to go thru it. I found a way out of arbitration and was able to settle my dispute for nearly all my damages without going to trial. Had I been forced to arbitrate, based on what they were offering me, I'd have had to accept their low ball offer or maybe even get less. I found out in time that the arbitrator the business chose had many ethics problems. I also found out that industries do repeat business with arbitrators, and there's plenty of evidence now of bias and of circumvention of laws.