Why I Don’t Post Every Win — And Why This $62,333.10 Jefferson County Judgment Matters
By Christopher Prosser, BA, AA, CLA
Founder & CEO, Attorney’s Acquisitions, LLC and TeleJustice Academy, LLC
Author, MMPA Justice: The Missouri Playbook
People ask a fair question: if the process in MMPA Justice works, why aren’t you posting judgments every week?
The honest answer is that most consumer cases never become a public scoreboard. They settle. Settlement is not failure. It is often the fastest way to get money back and stop the conduct. But settlement papers almost always come with confidentiality, non-disparagement, and non-disclosure language. When that happens, I keep my word. I do not discuss those cases in public. That silence is not because the process failed. It is because the process worked quietly.
Every so often a case stays on the public docket from filing through judgment and collection. This is one of those cases. I filed it myself. No lawyer at counsel table. No cameras. No press release. Just a consumer who refused to eat the loss.
The product
The item was sold as a “Power Factor Saver” / “Electricity saving box” — a plug-in device marketed as an intelligent energy saver that would cut the power bill. That category of product has a long, ugly history. Consumers are told the box will reduce usage. What they often receive is a cheap plastic device that does not deliver the advertised savings. We treated it the way the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act treats it: as a merchandise transaction built on deception.
The case I walked into court with
We filed in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri: Christopher Prosser and Nichole Prosser v. First Choice Parts, LLC, et al., Case No. 25JE-CC01150.
The First Amended Complaint was a Missouri Merchandising Practices Act case. I named the seller, used the exact legal entity, demanded a jury, and put the facts on the record. First Choice Parts, LLC was served through its registered agent on December 8, 2025. The company did not plead or defend.
I did not outsource that file. I investigated the company, drafted the petition, arranged service, served discovery when the window opened, and then put a motion for default and supporting affidavits in front of the court. On January 13, 2026, I was in that courthouse as a pro se plaintiff. Circuit Judge Edward Louis Page entered default judgment for the plaintiffs and against First Choice Parts, LLC in the amount of $62,333.10, plus post-judgment interest at the statutory rate.
That is not glamorous. It is tenacity. It is consumer rights used the way the statute was written — by the person who got ripped off, standing in a county courtroom with a complete file.
That number did not appear by magic. It came from a petition, affidavits, a motion for default, and a court that found the MMPA allegations established and unanswered. That is the same sequence the playbook teaches: identify the entity, plead the statute, serve the registered agent, prove up the file when the defendant goes silent.
What happened after the judgment
A judgment is not a check. Chapter 24 of the playbook exists for a reason. After January 13 we moved into collection the same way we filed — ourselves:
- Requests for execution and garnishment
- Interrogatories in aid of execution
- Garnishments issued to banks and related entities
- Packets mailed to sheriffs in Missouri and out of state
- A non-est return on one local Citibank attempt — the location was an ATM, not a garnishable branch
- A later garnishment directed to Citibank N.A., served July 15, 2026
- Additional executions aimed at related entities where the docket supported it
As of the current docket, garnishments are active. That is the unglamorous part nobody sees on social media: certified copies, sheriff packets, cashier’s checks for service fees, and follow-up when a paper comes back non-est. Collection is not a single filing. It is persistence after the gavel.
What this proves about the process
Four things.
First, most MMPA cases settle because a properly built file creates risk. When a company reads a clean petition, a correct legal name, and a served summons, many of them write a check and demand confidentiality. Those wins are real. They are just not postable.
Second, you do not have to wait for a law firm to decide your loss is “big enough.” I filed this as a pro se consumer. The clerk stamped it. The sheriff served it. The judge ruled on it. The system is used every day by people who show up prepared.
Third, when a defendant refuses to appear, Missouri procedure still works. Service on the registered agent starts the clock. Silence is not a strategy. Default is available. Judges will enter judgment when the file is complete.
Fourth, the work does not stop at “we won.” Identifying accounts, serving garnishments, and chasing assets is part of the same playbook. If you stop at the judgment, you stopped too early.
Why this belongs next to the books
MMPA Justice: The Missouri Playbook was written so ordinary consumers could see the path I actually walked: investigate the company, marshal the facts, file in the right court, serve the right entity, use discovery or default, and collect. This Jefferson County file is that path in public view — including the part where the author is the plaintiff.
The same architecture now exists for other states in the Consumer Justice series — Florida under FDUTPA, Texas under the DTPA, New York under General Business Law §§ 349 and 350 — because the marketplace conduct is national and the statute is local. The energy-saver box is not a Missouri-only problem. The method is transferable. The caption, the deadline, and the collection tools change with the state. The discipline does not.
I will keep honoring NDAs on settled matters. I will also keep pointing to the public record when a case is public. Case No. 25JE-CC01150 is public. The default judgment is public. The garnishments are public. The fact that it was filed and proven up without retained counsel is public.
That is the process. It is not theory. It is a file in Jefferson County with a judgment for $62,333.10, collection underway, and a consumer who walked into court and finished the job.
If you were sold a product that did not do what the label promised, start with the statute in your state and the steps in the playbook. Document the claim. Name the correct entity. File. Serve. Follow through.
Most of the time they settle. Sometimes they default. Either way, the consumer who builds the file is no longer the easy mark.
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Christopher Prosser is a 42-year complex litigation paralegal, Founder & CEO of Attorney’s Acquisitions, LLC and TeleJustice Academy, LLC, and author of the Consumer Justice playbook series.