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Optical Disk Drive Products Antitrust Settlement

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44 pointsliareye15 comments

Whenever I see a settlement website like this, I always wonder how I can really trust it. Is there some easy way I can verify this isn't just a spammer's clever ploy to collect peoples' emails?

Yes, submit a claim, and see if a check comes in the mail. Deposit it in your bank account. See if it clears.

If you get this far, it's not a scam.

Unless it's one of those "by cashing this $5 check you agree to all sorts of asshatery in the fine print."

CAREFUL! A cleared check doesn't mean it actually cleared and you'll be on the hook for depositing a fraudulent check. If a bank tells you it cleared it means nothing. See https://www.thebalance.com/clearing-checks-risks-and-scams-3...

Oddly enough, my workplace's McAfee Web Gateway filters this as a spam site.

look up the case in PACER and see if everything matches? This page gives you a court and case number, so that should be enough.

Send snail mail then.

http://www.lieffcabraser.com/2016/04/optical-disk-drive-37-m...

Here is the website for the attorneys who have filed the class action

So they're just going to trust everyone that applies for it? No receipts? That's going to go well...

Just like the LCD settlement. https://lcdclass.com/

IIRC my check was close to $1,000. (no lying on the submission either)

Hope you got your LCD check too! (if eligible)

I don't think the number of people willing to commit perjury for $10 is enough to result in any significant amount of fraudulent claims.

Also consider the statistics of being able to actually reach the full number of affected consumers in the class -- the fraudulent claims are probably representative of 10 times more that couldn't be reached but are deserving, and because the primary reason for the suit is punitive, not reward -- it makes little difference who gets the funds in the end.

That's how most large class action settlements work. Would the cost of systems and staff to process and verify 10 million receipts be lower than the cost of paying out some smaller number of undeserved claim checks? Probably not when the reward is small.

http://www.classactionrebates.com/

Of course, I dislike the settlements that comes long after the products has been sold.

seems legit - I'm pretty sure its electronic, no place to input an address

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