I got an email a while back about some broiler chicken class action suit against Tyson, maybe? I dunno. I had to estimate my chicken usage between 2012-2019. I had completely forgotten about this, but I just got an email three days ago saying that I’m claiming an unusual amount and I need to provide some documentation. Like, what the fuck? Like I have receipts from 2012-2019 or any representative time therein of my itemized grocery purchases? I just attached a letter saying it’s a good-faith approximation for my family of four and a large dog (for whom I cooked chicken for his daily food.) We do eat a lot of chicken, and the dog himself would go through ~25 lbs of (before cooking) chicken himself. But how in the heck am I supposed to justify this? I don’t even have last week’s receipts for our current dog, which look about the same.
If that’s part of the same class action lawsuit that I’m part of (as a business, not an individual), their site says:
If you disagree with the purchase information in the records or no purchase information exists, or you want to supplement your previous claim to include additional purchase data, complete the Purchase Audit Request Form posted on www.ChickenCommercialSettlement.com, attach your supporting documents, and submit it by June 19, 2025. (postmarked or online).
But, being that it’s well past the date, I’m not seeing the form on their site anymore.
They sent me a link, though mine seems to be from a different organization (I’m not commercial). It’s www.overchargedforchicken.com. There’s not much info on it other than “fix my claim,” and it doesn’t even show me what amount I claimed before. It just has a button to put in my ID and PIN and then just a simple upload screen for documents, nothing else. Not even an explanation of what kind of documents they want. Their deadline is 4/16/26.
I just sent the note, and what’s the worst that can happen? I’m not going to expend too much energy on maybe getting another $20-$50 out of this. I assume they’ll just downgrade the claim and I’ll get what I get.
My best score was from Bumble. When they first started I paid $200 for Bumble Gold for life. There was some stupid class action and I signed up. I guess not that many people signed up with me and I got $673.
My wife and I each recieved a $20.something check for a recent class action suit, I can’t even remember which one. I think it was a data breach of some sort.
I got one from Mazda a while back about fuel pumps that fail prematurely or something like that. I can only get paid actual money if I’ve already paid out of pocket for a replacement fuel pump (I haven’t). But I do effectively get a free extended warranty on it, i.e. Mazda will replace it for free if it fails even though my car is out of warranty.
Update: I recently received a letter saying my claim was approved and that I will get my pay-out in May or so. I am curious as to how much it will be, but I’m expecting a comically low amount.
I also got one related to Belkin overstating the capacity of their power banks or something like that. I have not gotten paid yet, but I got a notice that the settlement was approved. The default payment was a $5 credit for Belkin’s online store if I do nothing. But I had the option of receiving $2 via PayPal/Venmo/Zelle if I didn’t want the store credit, but I had to request it by filling out a form online. It wasn’t even a normal web form, it was a PDF that you had to fill out and digitally sign. It was like they purposely made it as clunky as possible.
Did ChatGPT try to get you to kill yourself? You may be entitled to compensation.
But, joking aside, I have no idea how this will play out, but I’m okay with AI companies getting sued over their wildly incorrect information presented as fact.
I got one in a Levi jeans settlement decades ago. 12-cents.
You get even more if it succeeded.
And now I’m party to what may be another large payout: I’m an author of several textbooks and last fall Anthropic settled a class action lawsuit about its infringing authors’ copyrights while training their LLM. The payments will be split between the publisher, my co-author, and me, and I don’t know yet what percentage I’ll get, but the dollar amount won’t be trivial.
Good luck cashing the check.
Damn, you win! LOL
Anyone ever opt out & attempt to sue the company on their own? There’s one against Google for Android phone users. "Individual payments are expected to be small - roughly $1 to $1.50 per person - though payments are capped at $100 each.
Hell, even typing this is worth more than $1.25 of my time, let alone filling out the form, but what if I were to opt out & sue on my own, is there any chance I’d get real money (thinking of a couple of hundred dollars) going that route?
Every time I join a class action suit, I wonder the same thing. Then I realize I’m not going to sue Android or Google or Panasonic or Honda or any other business of that magnitude, at least not on my own.
Plus their lawyers are bigger than yours.
Yeah, but if I were to sue in small claims for say, $300 it would cost them more to look at it than to pay out. Even if I were to hire a lawyer & sue for $300 + legal fees they might pay out just to make it go away relatively cheaply.
I just don’t know what I can buy for $1.25 anymore, even the theater candy boxes in the supermarket are more than that now. What can I get, two apples?
I think the serious answer is only if you could prove that you suffered real damage.
There is an old example from my past of getting several hundred dollars in a class action settlement from Volkswagen for faulty ignition coils. If I’d actually suffered real damage, such as being stranded, paying for a tow, hotel, repair, missed event, etc. then opting out and suing directly might have gotten me more.
For something as nebulous as Google neglecting to tell you all the ways they’ll violate your privacy, probably not.
Last year I got a notice of a class action settlement regarding a case against a furniture company that both I and my wife have purchased products from. The notice said that to get a cash settlement you must fill out an online claim form. I did so, and a couple weeks ago I received $115 deposited into my PayPal account. Unbeknownst to me, my wife also received this notice last year, but she did not file the online claim form. A couple of weeks ago, she also received $115, but in the form of a credit voucher for purchases from the furniture store.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a settlement that had two forms of payout, depending on whether you fill out a claim or not. I wonder why this was done, other than the obvious reason that the company would rather hand out credit vouchers rather than cash, since the vouchers cost them less than the nominal value.