Yes there is. But do keep in mind that I don’t actually ever mail anything to anybody.
Assuming you never actually did anything, then nothing. I have no objection to piddling amounts of money arriving in my mailbox. I’m just not going to burn any calories to make it happen.
And in the old days if a check for $5 showed up I probably would never have cashed it, but since depositing checks with my cell phone takes about 90 seconds I might actually have enough gumption to deposit it.
I only quickly scanned the email before deleting it, but I thought it said that if I wanted to participate I was to do nothing. If that’s the case, I’m participating.
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I got the email - it said I had to do something to opt out. I just deleted the email, so I guess I’m still included, so I voted yes. If a card or a coupon shows up, I’ll probably have forgetting about this anyway.
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According to the email you have to actively remove yourself from the settlement if you wish to sue on your own, but you also have to actively add yourself to a list if you wish to receive money from the settlement. So those of you who are doing nothing (me too!!) are “no’s”. You guys are skewing my poll!!! 
I’ve been a Netflix subscriber for 7 years or so. I get e-mails from them all the time
–“we received movieX”
–“for Wednesday: movieX”
–“when did you mail movieX?”
etc.
I did not get the e-mail referenced in this thread.
Netflix hates me. 
I filled out the online form to have a gift card or cash sent to my address. It was 12 seconds of typing and clicking. If I can make $1.50 for 12 seconds of work, why not?
Is this collusion? I mean, what sets this apart from other business relationships? Netflix and Walmart aren’t in competition if one is advertising for the other. Wouldn’t collusion require us not to know they were working together (since they don’t by themselves form a monopoly or anything close)?
Because I can sorta see it from the definition of collusion, I have to admit it did not instinctively hit me as wrong, like the examples did on Wikipedia.
Of course, part of that might be that I don’t remember Netflix’s prices going up, nor anyone complaining that the price was too high. It makes more sense to me that Walmart figured out they couldn’t compete with Netflix, dropped their service, and then entered into an agreement with Netflix to swap advertizing. That definitely would not be collusion.
I didn’t get an e-mail, but I did get a standard class action form letter the other day for Netflix and something else (Amazon maybe?). For the Netflix part you didn’t have to do anything to receive your part of the settlement so I tossed it in the recycling bin and moved on.
Also, just for the record, I did once join in a class action lawsuit against Visa/MC over their merchant fees (what they charge stores such as myself to run credit cards). At first I tossed the letter because I figured I would only end up with a few dollars and that wasn’t worth it for how much paper work I would have to do, but I ended up digging it out of my garbage a few days later when I had the time to fill it out. I ended up with about $3000 worth of settlement checks. Ever since then, I do typically take the time to read them and decide if it’s worth my time. Obviously that one was different since we had probably given Visa/MC well over $150,000 over the period that the lawsuit covered, but still, sometimes it’s worth it to at least take a look.
I saw the words “do nothing” in that email, so that’s my kind of participation. Then I deleted the email. I wasn’t entirely sure whether it was spam.
The accusation is that they aren’t in competition because they agreed not to be. That Walmart agreed to not go into by-mail renting if in return Netflix agreed to stay out of selling DVDs. If its true, its certainly collusion and they deserve to get sued.
Honestly I’d prefer if the Netflix sphere had more collusion, I don’t like streaming services being so damn fragmented…
This! I want a Walmart gift card that won’t even buy me a pack of gum. Why didn’t I get an email?!?!?
I don’t get this.
Even if there was an arrangement, I don’t see a problem. If Major League Baseball said to the National Football League “I won’t start another football league if you don’t start another baseball league”, you consider that collusion?
Class action lawyers don’t need a good reason to start class action lawsuits. They just need a somewhat plausible reason, a friendly jurisdiction, and to make it cheaper to settle than to litigate.
I haven’t set foot inside a Wal-mart for four years, and I see no reason to break my streak for this.
I don’t consider it collusion. It legally is collusion. Cutting a deal not to compete with each other is a form of collusion.
If the allegations are true, then there is a good reason to start a class action suit. Note Netflix hasn’t settled (only Walmart has), and their defense isn’t “we had a deal but thats not collusion”, it is “there is no such deal”.
I know, I was the one who posted earlier. Both Netflix and Wal-Mart deny the deal, but Wal-Mart is willing to throw money at it to make it go away. This is why I am often dubious of class-action lawsuits. Lawyers know many companies would rather settle than litigate even if they’ve done nothing wrong. And the ones who do wrong, IMO, don’t get adequately punished compared to the wrongly sued.
Hi guys, as a European this is my first class action lawsuit. I’m so excited to be part of it and to live the American dream this way.
Well seriously now, what if I opt out of it and settle with Walmart later myself? Wouldn’t that yield higher profits than only 1.5$?
Depends on your lawyer (assuming you can find one willing to take the case). And it assumes that they’d be willing to settle with you instead of making you spend a lot of money pressing the case (I’m sure their settlement here includes no acknowledgment of guilt so I don’t think it could be used as evidence in your own individual trial).
But it is the American system that you are certainly allowed to try if that’s what you want to do with your day.
Which is what I’ve always done, and last week I got a check from eBay for a bit over a dollar… stupid shit lawsuits…
I just got a check for $18.04 from the credit card foreign currency exchange lawsuit from some years back–which of course I had totally forgotten about. Yay!
I, too, thought that. Turns out “do nothing” means you’re part of the lawsuite, but you do have to go hereto get them to send you your moolah. I mean, how else are they gonna know where you currently live?
I just signed up. I’m no huge fan of Wal-Mart, but I’m also broke as shit and still need to, y’know, eat.