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martyb
on Friday November 16 2018, @08:44AM
from the Shriveled-fruits-of-the-legal-system dept.
from the Shriveled-fruits-of-the-legal-system dept.
I received my PS3 "OtherOS" class action lawsuit settlement payment yesterday: $10.07.
Have other members received settlements yet? More, less, or the same amount?
[We previously covered this in PlayStation 3 "OtherOS" Class Action Settlement Claims End on April 15 . Whatever happened to the $65 settlement that was mentioned there? --Ed.]
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by stretch611 on Friday November 16 2018, @04:47PM (3 children)
While I never owned a PS3, it pretty much disqualified me from getting a check.
However, I still remember the time I was in a class action against Iomega because of the unreliability of their zip drives. (for any possible youngin's those were expensive 100MB removable drives, a little larger than 3.5" floppies, that existed before CDs were writable.)
The Iomega drives had a click of death [soylentnews.org] resulting in damage to the drive and any media put into it. A class action suit was filed. The lawyers were paid in cash. I received a coupon for $10 or $20 off a 6-pack of Iomega Zip Disks. I remember that the coupon was only valid at 2 or 3 stores... ones that charged full retail price of $150 for the 6-pack of disks, while I knew where to buy them for $99. Essentially the coupon was worthless.
So the people in the class get nothing... The lawyers get paid, and the business gets off the hook for a lot less.
As much as class actions are a scam, at least they sometimes hold a company slightly responsible. In this light, I would prefer having class actions to not having them and removing this occasionally useful but minimal amount of accountability.
I also received a settlement for Sirius Radio recently for them marketing when they shouldn't. I always ignored registration so the only information they got about me was from the Car Dealer (which sadly was probably significant.) I got a whopping 3 months of free Sirius service.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 16 2018, @06:24PM
While I never owned a PS3, it pretty much disqualified me from getting a check.
Pretty much?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @06:35PM
I was in a class-action lawsuit years ago. My Honda Civic's sun visor had a problem where the little cam or whatever inside broke, and it would no longer stay flipped up against the roof of the car. I paid to replace it, installed it myself, and the replacement worked fine after that. After a year or two, the class-action was filed against Honda about it. Honda settled and agreed to reimburse anyone who'd paid to have it fixed. Luckily I'd purchased the replacement online, so I could go back to the supply site, get a copy of the receipt, and sent it in as proof. A few months later, I got the check for the full amount.
So there are a few class-actions where the people actually "harmed" do get real compensation.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday November 16 2018, @08:40PM
Damn... screwed up the link in my parent post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Origin_of_the_term [wikipedia.org]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P