# Class Action Lawsuit - got paid! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396 "2022-06-17T19:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/41 "2022-10-31T22:43:29Z")
I’ve received a couple of those. I use them for gasoline. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/42 "2022-10-31T22:51:15Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I use them for gasoline. What’s that procedure? I have a .jpg image of a credit card. ETA. I also don’t have a smart phone. Print it out? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/43 "2022-10-31T23:01:15Z")
Yep, print it out and take it to the station, and they should be able to scan it, or manually enter the number if they can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/44 "2022-10-31T23:17:34Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Has anyone else had a seemingly random class action payout that was sizable? Not random, but sizable: Earlier this year Apple settled a class action lawsuit regarding its iOS App Store. I had sold an app through the store and made a small amount of money on it (about enough to pay the annual fee to register as a developer). I was initially notified that I was eligible for a payment that would be a minimum of $500, based on my net proceeds over a period of time. I got the check recently and it was about four times that, much more than I made on the app itself. Glad I signed up for that one! ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/45 "2022-10-31T23:41:13Z")
I probably get about one of those cards per month. I messed with a few of them and never got above $5 from any, and decided it wasn’t worth the time. Now I’m wondering if any were multi thousand payouts. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/46 "2022-10-31T23:52:08Z")
They make it such a hassle to redeem so they don’t have to pay out as much but still technically offered it. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/47 "2022-11-01T00:45:36Z")
It seems there’s an [antitrust class action suit](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/valve-loses-bid-to-end-antitrust-case-over-steam-gaming-platform) against Steam going on. If you have a Steam account you should have gotten an email notifying you that you needed to sign onto it rather than being automatically included as seems to be normal. But in case you didn’t. [SteamClaims](https://steamclaims.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/48 "2022-11-01T01:12:16Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > It seems there’s an [antitrust class action suit](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/valve-loses-bid-to-end-antitrust-case-over-steam-gaming-platform) against Steam going on. It seems to me that this is utter bullshit. I’d buy it if Steam charged a DIFFERENT price than… well, then every single other retailer in the sphere. But they don’t. Games cost the same at Steam that they do at Epic/Meatspace/Wherever. Game prices have been stable for a decade or more. (This is the first I’ve heard of it, though admittedly I don’t read every email I get in a day, or I wouldn’t have time for anything else). ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/49 "2022-11-01T01:49:48Z")
I would summarize this in a sentence if I understood it. > **[Class Action Claims Agreement Between Steam, Major Video Game Developers Led...](https://www.classaction.org/blog/class-action-claims-agreement-between-steam-major-video-game-developers-led-to-higher-prices-for-pc-games)** > > A proposed antitrust class action lawsuit filed this week claims Valve Corporation, the entity behind the popular Steam platform, and several major video game developers have suppressed competition among video game sellers. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/50 "2022-11-01T02:02:49Z")
I got a buck from some Wells Fargo class action thing. Never bothered to do anything with the check. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/51 "2022-11-01T02:17:08Z")
I’m still waiting for my Experian check. I predict the over/under will be $7.50 ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/52 "2022-11-01T03:13:52Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > They make it such a hassle to redeem so they don’t have to pay out as much but still technically offered it. I got a teeny amount in some class action thing (I think it had to do with buying blank CDs but I’m not sure.) Anyway, you didn’t have to send any proof, just sign and send back a card that said you had at some point bought some unspecified number of blank CDs made by that company. Several years later I got a check for five bucks and change. Trivial, but it wasn’t like it has cost me more than 15 seconds to sign the card and stick it back in the mail box. Weirdly, though, a couple of years later I got a _second_ check for another even pettier amount, like $2.17, for the same case. It said something about not enough people had entered the suit or cashed their checks, and so after the window the first round of checks were good for passed they divided the remainder of the pot among those of us who had cashed the first checks, and that was my share. I was amazed they bothered. It had to have cost them far more than the amount of the second check for the paperwork and labor of printing and mailing each of those tiny checks. They should have just given the remaining pot to some charity or, hell, the law firm could have had a party for their staff or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/53 "2022-11-01T03:37:34Z")
Yeah, I just got a second ‘check’ from the settlement I mentioned above. > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > They should have just given the remaining pot to some charity or, hell, the law firm could have had a party for their staff or whatever. I’m reasonably certain they can’t legally do that, that money must be dispersed to the plaintiffs in the suit. The lawyers got everything they’re entitled to when the settlement was reached. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/54 "2022-11-01T12:03:10Z")
when my cousin totaled my aunt’s car we had Geico and apparently, there’s some CA state fee about totaling a car and they took it off the settled amount they gave you when they were supposed to pay for it Well, they were sued and the amount you can get for going through all the hassle of filling things out? $6.55 Barely worth the time and effort id think for the lawsuit… ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/55 "2022-11-01T12:27:20Z")
I’m still waiting for resolution of some kind of ‘anyone who bought milk’ during a certain time period class action suit. I haven’t heard anything on it for almost two years. I used to have a link to the website bookmarked but I see that disappeared after our last computer update. I’m looking forward to collecting the cost of two or three new gallons of milk someday. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/56 "2022-11-01T12:56:07Z")
The best I ever did was around $220 for something to do with thyroid medication. I got around $100 from Microsoft for an Office software thing. The have been a few dozen for $20 and under. The biggest screw job was the huge Ticketmaster one. I have used them for several hundred or more concerts in my life so I was in the top group in the class. The award was money off on a bunch of concerts that I’d never attend and they eventually all expired. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/57 "2022-11-01T17:36:36Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I got $7.61 from the “Optical Disk Dive Settlement” today. I filed a claim in that one back in 2017, but unfortunately I used an email address I don’t use anymore. So I missed the email telling me to claim my electronic gift card with my payment, and the deadline has now passed. Even though I’m sure my payment would have been a similar amount, I’m still kind of mad I missed out on it. > [@Icarus](#): > > Has anyone else had a seemingly random class action payout that was sizable? My former employer was accused of colluding with some other companies to not recruit each others employees. I got a payment of over $1000 from that settlement. A portion of the payment was considered back pay, and a portion punitive. Interestingly I actually got a W2 for the back pay portion, and a 1099 form for the other part. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/58 "2022-11-02T12:47:22Z")
This week I got another $7 or so from the optical drive settlement as an Amazon gift card, and just got about $50 from the 1800 contacts suit, which was sent through venmo. So not doing bad. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/59 "2022-11-02T21:21:08Z")
I got a second settlement of $5.86 as an Amazon gift card.Clicked on the link, followed instructions to add it to my gift card account. Another free e-book! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396/60 "2022-11-03T05:45:09Z")
There was a suit filed in Illinois against Facebook for using biometric scanning on facial photos or something. Both my wife and I got something like $400 each. That’s easily the largest amount I’ve gotten from a settlement though I also got my two rounds of optical drive money in the form of Amazon gift cards. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-action-lawsuit-got-paid/966396.md?page=4)