For consumer lawyers
Cases that arrive already documented.
Payback catches online stores running a sale that never ends.
We ask the store for the customer's money back first.
When the store refuses and the customer asks us to, the case goes to one lawyer, with the price history attached.
An example of one card in the marketplace. It carries a made up store, a tier, the customer's state, an order value band, the discount the store claimed, how many of the last 90 days the sale price ran, how much price history Payback holds, and the price of the case.
Example card. The store, the figures and the price are made up.
What you get
- A customer who has already said yes to hearing from a lawyer.
- The order: the store, the date, the amount paid, the discount claimed, and a verified receipt.
- The pattern: how long the sale price has been the real price, and how much of the store's catalog does the same thing.
- Exclusivity: you are the only lawyer we share the case with for 14 days.
How we score a case
We built the score from what a consumer lawyer told us he looks for.
Seven inputs go in, all of them from Payback's own price record and the order itself.
Every case shows its inputs as plain sentences, not a number out of a black box.
- Store pattern
We count how many of the last 90 days the same item sat at the same sale price, and how much of the catalog does it.
A sale that never ends is the claim, and a long, wide one is the easiest to prove.
- Evidence depth
We count the days of price history Payback holds for that store and that item.
The case is documented before you open it.
- Order value and discount
We take what the customer paid and the discount the store claimed against it.
That is the size of the damages and the size of the misrepresentation.
- Recency
We score a recent order higher than an old one, so the case sits inside the limitation period with room to spare.
- Customer state
Every case carries the customer's state, which sets the statute and who can act on it.
You only see cases in the states you are admitted in.
- Receipt verified
We read the order receipt, so the purchase, the amounts and the order number are confirmed before the case is listed.
- Brand, not reseller
We score a brand selling its own goods higher than a reseller marking down someone else's.
A brand sets its own reference price.
Cases are graded A, B or C on that score.
Each tier has one fixed price, shown on the card.
How it works
Apply
We check your bar record and your firm by hand before you see a single case.
Browse
Cases are listed by state and tier, with the score inputs written out on every card.
The customer stays anonymous until you buy.
Buy
Your card is charged once, at the fixed price for that tier.
You get the customer's contact details and the evidence file, and for the next 14 days nobody else does.
Tell us what happened
You mark whether you made contact and how the case ended.
Outcomes are what keep the marketplace honest, and they decide whether a case can ever be listed again.
What the price is for
- The price buys the introduction and 14 days of exclusivity.
- It is never refunded, never credited and never shared.
- It is not contingent on an engagement, and nothing in it moves with whether you sign the client or win the case.
- Payback takes no share of any fee.
What we will not do
- We will not sell one case to two lawyers at the same time.
- We will not send one customer to more than one lawyer.
- We will not share a customer who did not ask to be shared.
Apply to join
Applications are reviewed by hand against your bar record, and we open cases to you only in the states you are admitted in.
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Payback is not a law firm and does not practise law.
Case scores are Payback's assessment of documentation and pattern strength, not legal advice and not a prediction of any outcome.