Class Action Law Suits - DO NOT INCLUDE ME BY DEFAULT
I don’t understand this - for the fifth time in my life, I am a member of a class action law suit. I do not want to be. I never even complained about the issue this law suit concerns (Online Credit Reports). (I have never tried to be involved in ANY of these suits).
But today I get an eight page legal document “explaining” all of this to me. If I DO NOT WANT TO PARTICIPATE, I need to fill out paperwork, and send it back to some lawyers. If I DO want to participate, then I do nothing.
Isn’t that back-asswards? I shouldn’t be involved in litigation I have not started - yet I am.
Someone is suing someone on my behalf, in my name, and without my consent. That seems inherently wrong.
I don’t sue people - if they piss me off enough I just tell everyone I know not to use them. I may blog about them.
But being automatically included in a law suit seems bizarre to me.
Please, someone, make it stop. Don’t allow people to send me an eight page legal document that I feel compelled to read only to find out that if “I win” I’ll get - either a free credit report (which I can get once a year anyway) OR two months of free credit monitoring (but if I forget to cancel it, I start getting billed for it).
This is NOT a case of lawyer’s helping people - in this case people get virtually nothing - and the lawyers pocket what I assume is millions.
Unreal. I want no part of it. Especially I don’t want to be bothered with it. I don’t want to spend my time reading documents and sending back documents stating that I have no interest in something I had no interest in before the suit was filed.
How is this practice even legal? How can I be signed up for a lawsuit “unless you opt out”?
This part of the law needs to be drastically changed.
Nobody should be able to sue anyone in my name unless I am dead, or no longer have sufficient brain function.
So now I waste my time getting OUT of this lawsuit - one I never wanted to be “in” in the first place!
Even if I “win” this case, I gain nothing. But I bet the lawyers gain a lot - win OR lose.
*sigh*
*** Random Post ***
April 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
It’s even worse than you think…
Got to this page: link
FIRST read ‘the basics’
Then… for fun… “how it really works” ..
Class action suits are just a very clever scheme to make money for attorneys… in the end: for attorneys of BOTH parties!
April 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Here is the site for the current suit I am “involved in” - http://www.browningsettlement.com“.
Now I did once (when I was looking to purchase a ~300K house on top of my already ~200K house) purchase a credit report - I wanted to understand why they thought I could afford that much debt!
But I got what I paid for - a credit report.
Wasn’t unhappy with the purchase then, not unhappy with it now.
Suing them now, though.
Un-freaking-believable!
Rob
May 1st, 2007 at 1:12 am
I got notification of this suit by email, and after reading through it (and wondering if it was “my lucky day” with the lottery). I believe it was generated by getting a free credit report and being offered the “credit protection” subscriptions. I didn’t take them up on the offer, so I don’t believe I’m included in the suit. But, I hate getting these too. The one time I remember being included, I got a discount on shipping or something paltry like that. So, my guess is you are right about the lawyers being the only ones who win with these things. I have been getting a lot of email about a suit against crucial / micron for some memory I bought, years and years ago….
It is a pita AND a waste of paper…