Dom Watts is an unlikely consumer champion. Yet, the dad of three from Croydon took on the power and might of Kodak – and won.His Kodakcamera protest Web site became the focus for a month-long campaign by consumers in search of fair play.
Yesterday, Kodak caved in to pressure and agreed to honour a deal for a cut-price digital camera – even though it maintained that the price tag of £100 was a mistake.
For Dom, Kodak’s capitulation proved to be the start of a busy round of newspaper and TV interviews for the IT contractor.
Keep-up pressure on Kodak, say campaigners – The Register
In a posting on the Kodak Camera campaign web site, Internet veteran Dr Laurence Godfrey (Godfrey v Demon Internet Ltd [1999] EWHC QB 244) wrote: “I am very pleased to read that there appears to have been a remarkable U-turn and now you are all going to get your cameras.
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