Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users 117
jfruh writes "Did you buy an Acer laptop with Vista and less than 1 GB of RAM? The company has a thumb drive it would like to send you. Did you get an unwanted text from Papa John's? The company would like to make it up with you with $50 worth of free pizza. These and other little rewards are available as a result of class action lawsuits that have wound their ways through the court systems and now, years later, are paying off for very large groups of tech users." I wonder how many USB drives the lawyers took as their share.
eMachines settlement (Score:3, Informative)
If you purchased an eMachines computer with a floppy drive way back in the late 90s, you can get either $62.50 in cash, or $365 worth of Gateway or Acer stuff from their refurb outlet.
http://www.emachinesfloppydisksettlement.com/CaseInfo.aspx?pas=EMS [emachinesf...lement.com]
I'd forgotten I ever bought an eMachine until I got the notice last month.
Re:Paying off for whom? (Score:4, Informative)
Good, the lawyers did the work.
The whole point of class actions is to make small individual claims able to be handled by the courts. No one is going to sue Papa Johns for $50. Papa Johns got a nice $25 per customer punishment.