Was the credit voucher emailed to her or (snail) mailed? If she didn’t fill out the form online, they wouldn’t have an (updated/verified) email address.
Apparently they just emailed a coupon code to the same email address that she used when she made her original purchase.
Actually, thinking about Joey_P’s question gave me a possible answer to this – they were able to deposit the cash payout into my PayPal account only because I filled out the form and gave them my PayPal account info. Since my wife didn’t fill out that form, they would have no way to make a deposit into any of her accounts. All they had was her email address, and the physical address she used when she placed her original order (at which she no longer lives). Thinking about these logistics makes me wonder how many class action payments never reach their destination just because the recipient cannot be located.
I have no idea, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were required to transfer that to whoever handles Unclaimed Property in the state with your last known address.
Looks like I’m due for some big Comcast data breach dollars soon.
I was part of the Wells Fargo data breach back in the 00s, and several years ago, got something that I thought was junk mail, but it wasn’t (I almost threw concert tickets away once, so I open everything) and ended up getting several checks for a couple hundred dollars each. I didn’t even though this had happened to me.
Don’t do business with Wells Fargo, folks.
I just got $45.80 from CVS. I don’t remember why. This is supposed to be “highly confidential” so let’s keep it in the room.
Just got $500 back from my daughter’s driving school closing down unexpectedly almost 6 yeasr ago, due to the owner’s arrest.This wasn’t a class action suit, but it was the State AG suing him on behalf of the customers.
Full story - my daughter signed up for driving school (required in MA to get a license), and we paid the full $750 up front. This included 30 hours of classroom time and 12 hours driving with the instructor.
She did the classroom right away, but before her first driving lesson the school’s owner was arrested for dealing methamphetamine, including the seizure of nearly 3 pounds of drugs from his home and the school. Obviously they closed the school down, so my daughter & many other students had to transfer to other schools and pay them for the driving instruction. The AG filed a lawsuit against him as well to recover the funds paid by students, and apparently after 5 years they finally settled and reimbursed us. I’m actually pretty shocked, originally I was told I might get $150-ish back, but $500 is pretty close to what I had to pay the second driving school to complete the program.
Jeeze. In California fifty years ago driving instruction was a class offered in public high school. It included both classroom instruction and driving practice.
That’s going to be different from district to district and even school to school. While I think more, if not most, high schools used to teach it, some still do.
This was pretty common in the 1980s and early 1990s when my younger cousins and siblings were in high school (in Virginia, Georgia and upstate New York). As far as I can tell, all three schools do not offer drivers ed any more.
Had that in my HS; except the lead instructor was also the head track coach. He didn’t want either of us missing practice so he signed me off without ever having gotten into the school’s car. (I did go driving with my dad)
I’m also seeing a push to get driver’s ed back into public schools. The idea being that not every parent can afford to send their kid to a private driving school and since they’re probably going to drive anyways, they might as well at least be taught how.
Some people are also pointing at the lack of driver’s ed in public school over the last 20 years (in my area) with the increase in people without licenses, driving incredibly recklessly and often getting into horrific crashes when they blow through red lights at 90mph. Now, I’m not saying driver’s ed in school is going to stop cars from getting stolen, but at least the person driving 90mph down the road isn’t behind the wheel for the first time. I’m not going to go looking for it right now, but IIRC there was an article from a few years ago where someone was suggesting that in school driver’s ed should start even younger since many of the kids stealing cars and getting into these accidents are well under driving age.
Some googling indicates some MA high schools still have drivers education as well. The instructors have to be licensed by the RMV for it to qualify for the new driver requirements, so hopefully that’s preventing coaches from pencil whipping athletes through the class.
In the early seventies, our high school had both Drivers Ed and Drivers Training. Ed was classroom only and everyone got it. Training, you had to have passed Ed and signed up. First come first served, so not everyone got it.
I am still flabbergasted that in a car-centric country like the USA, full-up driver’s ed to a license isn’t a nationally mandatory feature of public, private, and home schooling.
But it’s not, and we collectively drive like it’s not. Idjits.
If this table is correct, 40 states do require some form of drivers ed for new drivers, mostly depending on age. The 10 that don’t account for 12% of US population, so it’s mandatory for the other 88%. It mostly covers new drivers under 18, but I’d hazard a guess that’s when most people in this car-centric country get their license.
Coaches were most – if not all – of the practice instructors. Mine certainly was. I never heard of anybody being gundecked* but I wasn’t in the jock community. The classroom instructors were a varied lot.
*Navy term for falsified reports, maintenance logs, or training records.
Hey! I got an update on this one. They say they’ve adjusted their “excessive amount” limit and now I’m under it, and no further action is needed on my part! So…yay? We shall see!