Class action
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You know the drill, you get an email, or snail mail notification that a company with which you did business is party to a class action lawsuit and you might be entitled to compensation.
A few years ago the "Resort Marketing Group" was sued for illegal marketing of "free" cruises on Carnival and other cruise lines:
https://www.betterbodysettlement.com/carnival-cruise-lawsuit-review-update/
If you received pre-recorded telemarketing calls on your residential or cellular telephone line between July of 2009 and March of 2014, you are included in the settlement. The pre-recorded calls must have offered you a free cruise with the mentioned cruising lines, and your phone number must be in RMG’s call records. These call records have all phone numbers that RMG used to initiate pre-recorded telemarketing calls to promote its business.
Back in 2018, the settlement administrator asked the 2 million claimants to provide additional proof related to their cell phones. The reason for this was because the administrator found that a substantial number of claims may have been filed in a fraudulent number. So claimants were asked to prove that they owned the phone numbers in question.
The estimated amount is only $300 but your cell is your proof of purchase. You can find information about how to file your claim online. The settlement pool is $12.5 million. Lawyers for the claimants often receive 30% to 40% of any proceeds collected and the rest of the money is given to members of the class through checks.
Today, I got my check.
Was it...
- $1.45
- $34.56
- $ 87.92
- $141.81
- $201.43
- $274.15
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My method for answering multiple choice questions is usually to try to imagine the point the questioner is trying to make. For instance if the question is related to safety, the answer is always the option that maximizes risk. "How many deaths per year are attributable to DUI?". The answer will be the biggest number. All of which is to say, I would have guessed the smallest number because that would lend itself to the point that class action suits are bogus for everybody but the lawyers. But here you got a nice check, and I would have been wrong. My point is that I'm always wrong about everything. Except when I say that Ax is a genius, worthy of study.
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I got a thing in the mail a couple of months ago telling me I qualified to be a member of a class action suit against a telemarketer because my phone number was on the list of numbers that had been called by some telemarketing firm in violation of the law.
All I had to do to receive my share of the payout was..... provide my full name, address, phone number, and social security number....
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@George-K said in Class action:
Wow!! I was going to guess the lowest amount. LOL
Most of the money goes to the lawyer I think.
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@George-K said in Class action:
Wow!! I was going to guess the lowest amount. LOL
Most of the money goes to the lawyer I think.
@taiwan_girl I had completely forgotten about it. I was shocked to see that check in today's mail!
