Judgement of LG Darmstadt (Regional Court Darmstadt) of 06/04/2011, file number: 25 S 162/10

Following clause of the terms and conditions “The special price is only valid with full payment at the shipping and billing date. In case of late or incomplete payment, the special price is not longer valid” has been declared invalid by the Regional Court Darmstadt. First, the term “billing” is too vague. For the customer is not clear whether this date refers to the invoice date or to the delivery date. Additionally, the statutory right of retention of the customer is so limited through the clause that an exclusion of the...

Judgement of LG Düsseldorf (Regional Court Düsseldorf) of 03/02/2010, file number: 12 O 173/09

An online travel portal, as a mediator of flights, must indicate the total price of a flight including any applicable booking fees, as soon as the price is indicated as “total price”. A small asterisk note is not enough if the fees are not transparently specified.

As the Federal Cartel Office has informed, the food giant Kraft Food Deutschland GmbH provided with essential information in the preliminary proceedings against the three most important German coffee roasters; Melitta, Dallmayr and Tschibo. Just before Christmas, the Federal Cartel Office imposed a fine of 160 million euro to the three coffee roasters.

Decision of OLG Dusseldorf (Higher Regional Court) of 09/09/2009, file number: VI-Kart 13/08 (V)

Within the scope of the milk price offensive is illegal, concerning anti-trust law, to call for boycott of the dairies which were supplied with raw milk. It is forbidden to call other enterprises, here other farmers, with the intention for block the delivery to unfairly damage in the competition certain third enterprises, the dairies. The publication of circulars and statements to the press support the boycott, while they do not limit themselves to the bare shifting of information.

Judgement of BGH (Federal Supreme Court) of 16/07/2009, file number: I ZR 140/07

The Federal Court of Justice has decided that dispatch dealers also have to state the shipping costs when setting their products on so-called price search machines. Otherwise they would offend against the price regulation.

Judgement of BGH (Federal Supreme Court) of 05/11/2008, file number: I ZR 5/06

If the sales of a mobile phone are promoted together with a prepaid card including a fix start credit, there is no obligation to state the rates for the use of the card, but the package price regarding the mobile phone and the prepaid card. If the mobile phone is locked with a SIM, the durability of the locking and the expenses in case of a premature connection should be made known.