MacBook Owners Have Two Months To Claim Up To $395 Over Butterfly Keyboard Woes 19
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you bought an Apple MacBook with an ill-fated butterfly keyboard and ended up having to replace either individual keycaps or the whole keyboard, you may be eligible to claim part of a $50 million settlement reached after a class-action lawsuit. The law firm handling the settlement has been emailing class members since mid-December but we wanted to highlight that the deadline for making a claim is fast approaching on March 6th, 2023. Claims can be submitted via the keyboardsettlement.com website, which says that the settlement class includes "all persons and entities in the United States" who purchased a butterfly-equipped MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro between 2015 and 2019.
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Pfffft, my hard drive storage settlement check came yesterday. For more than 50 drives, I got 61. Though I did get $63 from the CRT settlement yesterday.
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For a whole $6.97.
That beats my $5.21 from Equifax by 33.8%!! What gives?!
At least the cheque cleared...
Only if you've had a repair done... (Score:3)
Just owning one doesn't qualify for a single penny.
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People who didn't suffer a lose generally don't get money in a law suit.
Except many of us did suffer a "lose". We had shitty keys that got stuck all the time and to constantly be blown out with compressed air to get working again. Just because we didn't have it repaired, doesn't mean we didn't suffer with a defective product. Because in this case a "repair" just replaces the key with another defective key and removes the crumb or whatever that was stuck below it.
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You need to demand better consumer laws. In the UK this design defect has basically unlimited coverage for the lifetime of the product. They fix it or they refund you a percentage based on age.
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Oh its more straight forward in australia.
They fix it, or they refund you the whole damn lot, regardless of age. If it was a *design* fault that made it unfit for purpose (Ie did not function acceptably for the period of time a consumer could reasonably expect it to before reasonable wear and tear. But remember, I have 25 year old IBM keyboards that still work great, so thats a pretty long-toothed expectation of keyboard life).
This, by the way, has en
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Demands of taxpayers mean zero, nadda, zilch in America. In order to demand consumer law, and actually implement it, you'd need to reinvent all of American politics and remove the "money votes first" hurdle that's been codified and accepted as standard practice for so long it's basically a given and asking any congressional benefactor about taking away their free money to ignore the voters gets met with blank stares or, "I have no idea what you are speaking of."
So, if you want to go back two hundred some ye
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Just because we didn't have it repaired, doesn't mean we didn't suffer with a defective product
Like all class action settlements, you don't have to be satisfied by the agreed upon settlement. You can file a complaint with the court about the fairness of the settlement.
You can write to the Court about why you like or do not like the Settlement
You can also ask to speak to the Court at the hearing on March 16, 2023 about the fairness of the Settlement, with or without your own attorney.
You have until the tenth of next month to get moving on it.
If you have beef, secure a lawyer, file a notice by the 10th of February, and attend the hearing on the 16th of March. A class action is a just a single instance of a law firm doing a lot of work to secure payment from a company. If you think you can do better than that law o
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So stop posting "woe is me" on the Internet and get busy. You've got work to do if you want to make a case.
You feel better now? Go back to your troll cave. Not only was most of your post irrelevant to how class actions work in the US, your insults just make you look pompous and petty. If I wanted to fight Apple I wouldn't need your permission to do so. It's simply not worth my time and energy. I could spend that same time and effort and make far for more money doing something more productive.
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People who didn't suffer a lose generally don't get money in a law suit.
They paid for a good keyboard and got a shit one, that Apple knew was shit [gamespot.com]. Naturally Apple got away without having to admit wrongdoing, because capitalism.
#AppleSux (Score:1)
Why Are Class-Action Winners Treated Like Dirt? (Score:2)
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All three questions can be answered with a single word: Lawyers. The higher the hurdles, the less likely the general public tries to jump over them and the more of the settlement money ends up going into law firm coffers, or simply staying with the parent company that hired the defense firm.
Class Actions Benefit the Lawyers, ONLY. (Score:3)
Class action suits are important avenues to hold companies to their obligations. Every suit Iv'e been a part of (and seen) only benefit the lawyers behind it. What I would really want to see is that the legal counsel gets a specific fraction of what the declared "class" receives. Every check not cashed reduces the legal compensation. The lawyers need their compensation, but the bonus and referral system leads to things like the awful spam we get. I also want to see that that every law firm is responsible for the spam sent.