DRAM Class Action Lawsuit

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Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

You never "had" to buy anything. If you stayed away from Radio Shack and used the Computer Shopper magazine, you could get a good deal.

This lawsuit has a pretty bad aura around it. The main appeal is, "Do nothing but give us your personal information, and we'll send you $10. You don't have to show receipts or anything."

If you're going to do that, you're looking for free money, and lots of people will promise you free money. These are not the kind of people you'd invite into your home, or let them tinker with your identity on line.

Or perhaps you would. Good luck.

The lawsuit doesn't have a bad aura around it. What has a bad aura around it is that these international corporations were colluding to price fix and cost consumers billions of dollars.

All this thing really is 34 states attorneys generals investigated and sued a dozen or so corporations for price fixing. It isn't some sleazy law firm you see on tv telling you to call them when you get into a car accident who sued. These companies were committing documented proven crimes and as a result people went to jail and these companies all agreed to settle by paying more than a quarter billion dollars in fines. That money is in a pool which gets disbursed to these 34 states attorneys general. If you are a claimant the attorney general in your state sends you a portion of the fines they collected based upon your claims. These companies already cost you and me money either directly or indirectly. There isn't anything sleazy or wrong about filing claim when you were in fact forced to pay higher taxes and fees (this did cost government and corporations money which they of course passed on to you) and higher prices for the things you bought and used.