Class Action Lawsuit Settlements

Two lawsuit settlement checks have rolled in already this week - I am up a total of $20.54. Woohoo...

Turns out I was harmed by Ebay over charging me fees to the tune of $2.50 and also by either Visa or Mastercard over charging me for foreign currency transactions. Who knew? Interestingly, the credit card settlement check has small print showing the total settlement was $49.5 million and the attorneys received $13.875 million.

Anyone else rich from class action settlements?

I got a check for $5.60 because Verizon buried an optical cable on 500yds along my property line before I lived here.

I got 5 Arby's roast beefs with it but I still had to buy my own drink and curly fries.

I wish I could pick and choose fights for big cash.

I've had warranties extended on a couple of cars. The extensions covered very specific things, so they weren't worth much.

Oh, and I just got $130 in occupational taxes refunded. The lawyers kept a third of it.

In reply to monark192:

I've got a check for 18-something but haven't been able to figure out what for yet. It claims to be something related to credit card currency conversion, which might make sense w/respect to my trip to Germany, but I'd like to figure out what I'm accepting/releasing/confirming by cashing it.

I think I have a letter saying that BMW will fix my E46 rear subframe connectors.

I get class action eligibility letters all the time. Never gotten a check, though. Oh, maybe once - I think Iomega sent me a couple zip disks and a carrying case because their drives kept failing and trapping the disks inside.

Otto Maddox wrote: I've had warranties extended on a couple of cars. The extensions covered very specific things, so they weren't worth much.

Oh, right... this too. VW extended the warranty on my wife's long gone Passat 1.8T engine for reasons surrounding excessive sludge build-up.

Just got $1.45 from Ebay too. Woot woot! Time to pick up another rodent from craigslist

In reply to ransom:

So everyone gets $18.04 from Mastercard / Visa no matter how many foreign transaction fees you paid. I didn't know I was harmed so not really worried about cashing the check. I think you have to opt out of the "class" early on if you want to go it alone.

I has no class and I gets no action.

pinchvalve wrote: I has no class and I gets no action.

Maybe you need a suit.

These class action lawsuits are an extortion racket and an example of what is destroying our country.

Some group of scum went around every taxing authority in the country trying to find some fine print where the taxing authority was overcharging. They struck Washington County, AR, who was found to be overcharging basically pennies somewhere in the property tax. The lawyers get someone in that county to have a name to sue under and sue the county. Everyone in the county get a couple dollars (maybe), the lawyers get MILLIONS, and the county has to fight bankruptcy, raise taxes on everyone to pay this, etc., for what was no more than a minor math mistake.

Oh, and WHO did the Trial Lawyer's Association support last election? WHO WAS IT? Huh.

In reply to monark192:

My concern wasn't so about forfeiting rights to pursue anything else; just wondering whether it was legitimate and not some form of phishing I hadn't thought through... I'm sure I should know with more confidence whether cashing a check from someone got them any useful information or access.

Maybe just more teeth?

So an extra few pennies on thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of customers should be ignored?

How do we (you) know it was a simple mistake and not a planned revenue "error"?

Didn't we recently have a thread where most people were annoyed with Ebay's new "final value" charge? But now fighting back is destroying America?

Can I get every forum member on here send me a few pennies?

PayPal address - veedubtech2003@yahoo.com - Thank You

I, too, received both of those class-action settlement checks. Considering I actually used my Visa/MC overseas and sold crap on eBay Motors during the time periods, I felt it was my duty to cash the buggers.

I got $17 dollars and change from BoA, can't remember what it was for. Plan to go to the bank to cash it, they should love that.

I'm not suggesting that no class action lawsuits are valid, only that, like drug laws, they are doing more damage to our society than good. As such, both should be removed.

We should get our politicians to write a bill to regulate lawsuits. I'm sure that should fix the problem

Dang, CJ. You should run for office.

(I can haz National Sarcasm Society memberships?)

Cone_Junky wrote: We should get our politicians to write a bill to regulate lawsuits. I'm sure that should fix the problem

LOL - that's funny.

monark192 wrote:

Cone_Junky wrote: We should get our politicians to write a bill to regulate lawsuits. I'm sure that should fix the problem

LOL - that's funny.

It is funny. I'm sure since there are a lot of lawyers in Congress, they will fix it real good.

In 1975 or 76 I got a check for $700.00 (maybe only $650.00) as a result of a class action lawsuit vs. Mazda over an engine rebuild I had to pay for (no help at the time at all from Mazda) at around 52000 miles on my warranted for 50000 miles Rx3 engine. Apex seals had failed,obviously on a lot of Rx3s.

I got you all beat. A few years back there was a class action suit against the issuer of a credit card I had... got a check for $0.06. Yep SIX CENTS, it cost more to print the check!