and good luck spending the rest of my life in court trying to get a corporation to do anything...
That's exactly what they counted on.
Precisely. In fact, in my experience, corporations are the easiest. Take your local business to a small claims court and they may well suddenly disappear but a large Corporation doesn't have that option.
I have successfully taken on Peugeot, Vodafone and, most recently, Tui (an appallingly bad company I will never deal with again). Virgin Media will very shortly be next.
These corporations all have elaborate systems in place to fob you off with lies and save themselves money. However, as soon as you instigate legal procedings they cave in. Paying you off is cheaper than paying the lawyers.
The caveat is, of course, I'm talking about the English legal system.