Colgan: Cellbreaker has never lost a contract dispute case
John Colgan · He Sue's Cell Phone Companies that Pray on You with Jon Colgan of Cellbreaker · Jan 22, 2016 · at 7:44
John Colgan, founder of contract dispute platform Cellbreaker, discusses the company's order fulfillment track record against major telecom carriers.
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“A hundred percent. ... The only exception to that is especially early on when we were figuring out what our model was going to be, we would occasionally issue refunds if somebody said, okay, like that's not what I thought I was getting. So we would improve our messaging and give those refunds. But when a customer was on board we've never actually lost a case.”
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