Who else got a check for $200??

[Retired LTC USAR]

Got the mail the other day. Looked at eh return address on one envelope and started to throw it in the trash, but I opened it instead.

It was a letter, and at the bottom was a check for $200. The letter said it was the initial payment of a class action lawsuit.

Got a little suspicious and googled the case mentioned, Birchmeier v Caribbean Cruise Line. Website had a place to type in your phone number to see if you had been called. Type din mine and came up positive. Tried my wife's, son and daughters numbers, but no luck.

Letter said this was an initial payment and the second payment would be paid later this year.

Nice payout for listening to a sales pitch that never should have been there.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Years ago, my Bride got several hundred on getting under paid on teaching overseas.
I have received several over the years, but they were way smaller than $200!

 

[glenwolde]

That's great. Usually the lawyers get all the cash and all you get is a discount on your next cruise.

 

[JcMack]

Yup. I get so much junk mail I'm considering cutting a hole in the bottom of my mail box and put a trash can under there. I had a guy back up into the side of my truck in early Feb this year. 100% not my fault but the ins. company applied my $100 deductible to my repair cost. After 8 mos. of "sebregation" I got my $100 check in the mail last week. It came in the same phony lookin envelope the junk mail comes in and almost went into the garbage. How about that for an exciting, edge of your seat story? Now you can imagine what my life is like.

 

[Protocall_Design]

I've been in 3 or 4 class action lawsuits over the years. The most I ever got was $20. Average is + or - $10 per person. Each of a few lawyers get millions.

 

[NYlakesider]

Interesting this thread came up. Last week I got a sort of post card

It was folded over and sealed on all 4 sides. Figured it was junk but opened it. It was a check for the astounding amount of $3.95! Said it had something to do with nuisance phone calls

Supposedly came from

Monitronics international for TCPA settlement administrator.
( I looked it up there is a class action suit going on!)

There was another part to it that asked for record verification, which is strange as they sent it to me by correct name & address
The only thing that they say needs updating is my email address, which I rarely give out!

This sounds fishy as if the check is cashed they will get my bank account number and then add to it the above mentioned Email address. Am I being paranoid or is this $3.95 ligit. Course as the amount is small I suppose I could just cash it in at the country store down the road, no way my bank numbers shows then, or just throw the check away.

What say you!

 

[Protocall_Design]

I would toss it. The potential hazards are not worth it.

 

[GaryS]

If it was an actual check, cash it. If it was some sort of voucher, do more checking. That just seems like an awful lot for a class action settlement.

OTOH, a friend of mine is still getting substantial checks for settlements for his father's claims on asbestos and Actos.

He definitely doesn't toss those in the trash.

The most I ever got was something like $10.00 from Toyota. Not that I really cared, because I thought the suit was stupid in the first place.

 

[steveno]

the most I ever got was when I got a Nielsen tv rating form to fill out and there was two 1 dollar bills in it

 

[DumpStick]

Once I got a pen with my name on it....

 

[Old TexMex]

Yup. I get so much junk mail I'm considering cutting a hole in the bottom of my mail box and put a trash can under there. I had a guy back up into the side of my truck in early Feb this year. 100% not my fault but the ins. company applied my $100 deductible to my repair cost. After 8 mos. of "segregation" I got my $100 check in the mail last week. It came in the same phony lookin envelope the junk mail comes in and almost went into the garbage. How about that for an exciting, edge of your seat story? Now you can imagine what my life is like.

You and me both, buddy. Ain’t it great

 

[dockmurgw]

I have been involved with one class action suit. I had to send $50 checks to 900 people. But I didn't care...I initially took them for a lot more than that, so I chalked it up to a business expense and still kept the beach house.

 

[roguegamma]

I recently received a $95 settlement check that is apparently the first of two installments. It came in an envelope that looked like junk mail. Luckily, I had recently opened another junky looking envelope that told me to expect settlement checks from Arco due to them overcharging debit cards.

 

[DWalt]

I have been a "plaintiff" in at least a half-dozen class action lawsuits over the last 10 years. Never got enough to get excited over. The lawyers filing the class action suit are the only ones who make out.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

That's great. Usually the lawyers get all the cash and all you get is a discount on your next cruise.

SO what's wrong with that

 

[2152hq]

I got a $7 rebate check for buying 2 big bottles of cheap booze.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I recently got a solicitation letter from a local Real Estate Company.
They sent me a $2 Bill!
My new Best Friends!

 

[Gaffer]

I have a brother who lives alone and gets 3-4 inches of junk mail daily. The reason is that he has replied to many of them and given small amounts $25-50 and they in turn sell his name to other nefarious groups. His being alone and having chemo brain he does not understand that once you get on their lists you are going to get slammed. He has dozens of cheap calculators, dozens of pens and not paper from such outfits. I have tried and tried to get across that these are just money grubbing organizations and to stop giving to them. I don't know if is his cognitive ignorance or just loneliness but he continues to give away his money. He has no idea that such small amounts become thousands in the course of a year.
Growing old is not for sissies and if you are not sharp it can be painful.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

There was this, well, urban legend about a cold country dude who solicited Maximus junk mail.
He saved it all and heated his house with it!

 

[ddixie884]

Right after we moved home to Tx, Dixie got a $5,000.00 check for some class action suit she signed up for in Ca. She was amazed but spent it anyway...........