Hot damn, my $34.35 check for the DRAM anti-trust settlement came in!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Also, tell us about your class-action claims and settlement amounts.

Two questions:

  1. What am I going to do with all this money?
  2. I purchased a DRAM stick at one time?

Anyway, I guess I filled out some form about 4-5 years ago or something, resulting in my unexpected bonus.

Anybody else receive this one?

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Amazing you got anything. Lately the lawyers figure out ways to take ALL the money from these things. In one bankruptcy I was on the supposed receiving end of, the lawyers sent me a form wanting me to turn over all remaining funds to a Lawyer’s Education Award Fund!

I DON’T THINK SO!

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Yeah, they make it difficult, don’t they? Things i noticed…

  1. Envelope looked like one of those “official notices” that just scream JUNK MAIL!
  2. You only get 30 days to cash this check, not a day more.
  3. The check itself was folded in a manner so I had to flip through several pages to see it.
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Do the same thing I did with my $7.59 check (long story): make it rain at the dollar store!

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I got $16.77!

As I recall, the allegation was that DRAM was deliberately overpriced, or something like that. Thus if you bought any during a certain timeframe, whether directly or indirectly, you were entitled to a refund.

I bought a computer, which is how I got into the pool. I had totally forgotten about it, until my check arrived.

Anybody got a time machine? I want to go back about 100 years, so that I can REALLY party!

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Looks like I got fucked over twice as hard as you, Flyer. Or they just like me more. :wink:

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I got $92! I didn’t remember applying for it, either. I knew it was a settlement check because I’ve gotten them before, but I was only expecting a few dollars. I’m still waiting for my $50 of free tuna, but the company is fighting that one, I think.

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I once got $10 credit on a mortgage fee for something the mortgage comapany did bad on and had to pay people back for.

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A tutoring company I used to work for had to pay up because it didn’t give workers the breaks it was required to. I got about 90 bucks out of it. If I had been there longer during the time window covered by the lawsuit, I’d have made bank!

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I got $15.11 in the recent TracFone settlement. I just took a picture of it with my bank app and electronically deposited it.

I also received about $13 in a suit about CD price fixing. If I recall, I used it to order a pizza.

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I’ve received several checks in the $10 or so category for class-action suits (don’t have my tuna money, either). On a brighter note, a couple years ago I got a $100 check from AOL and I have no recollection of filing a claim for that. That was a pleasant surprise.

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Maybe 4-5 years ago I randomly got a check from AOL for some class-action suit that I didn’t even remember signing up for. It was for about $1,000, after taxes I think I got around $600-700.

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$72.41 sweet DRAM windfall here!

That’s better than the six cent check from a eBay settlement from a few years back.

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That one sounds familiar as well.

I always fill these things out when I receive them. I figure if they’re sending it to me, somebody has determined I am due money and they even helpfully provide the return postage. :slight_smile: