A federal lawsuit was filed earlier this month claiming that Target’s Heyday cell phone charging cables are defective and break soon after purchase.
Design defects, use of substandard materials, and “shoddy manufacturing” result in the chargers breaking “or otherwise stop producing a battery charge after approximately one week of normal use,” the suit claims. The suit seeks to represent all customers who want a refund on these units.
“This is caused by the plug breaking off the cable, the plug overheating and becoming unusable, and/or the wires inside the cable breaking.”
The suit says Target has sold hundreds of thousands of its brand-name Heyday Chargers and continues to sell them despite numerous complaints on the Internet and with federal agencies.
Two years ago Target recalled 90,000 of its iPhone chargers after the company has received 14 reports of the cables smoking, sparking, or igniting, according to the United States Product Safety Commission.
Two of those reports involved finger burn injuries. The chargers were apparently Apple-certified.
