• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Have you ever been a successful plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit? Those fries are worth more than you would have gotten.

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      Resident of Illinois here, I got $450 from Facebook, and $100 from Google for Biometric violations.

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      1 year ago

      Yeesh, all the Americans in this subthread getting 3 or 4 figures back from suits. Us canucks get like, $12 per.

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        I got $29 from the Intuit class-action suit. Yay. Pretty sure they charged more than that when I submitted my taxes that year. I was dumb.

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        Most I ever got back from a class action was $70. In a settlement where the defendant was fraudulently overcharging for their product by hundreds of dollars.

        The meagre payout didn’t cover the amount I was overcharged by (by then I didn’t care anyway) and the class action settlement was little more than a slap on the wrist for the billion dollar corporation because they earned more in the process of defrauding people than they lost in the payments.