Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users

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.

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not to be a buzzkill but this isnt free.

[nimbius]

Acers free thumb drive will be factored into 1q2014 quarterly profit and expenditures accordingly. it will be reflected in the price of the $next_Acer_laptop
$50 in free pizza at Papa Johns might be used by President John Schnatter as damage control for his recent plan to raise the price of his food based on the healthcare reform act. then again he might suddenly decide to decrease the size of a pizza, or the amount of topping, or the quality, or both.

tl;dr: at no point does your class action windfall guarantee companies wont try to fuck you in the future in pursuit of the same greed that landed them in court the first time. its most ethical to not participate in class action skull duggery and simply act as a responsible consumer. maybe consider the local pizzaria next time, or pick up some ingredients at the local market and make one. laptops from thinkpenguin or system76 are also pretty good too, and im sure there are a few other places willing to make you a windows laptop that wont try to screw you out of a component.