Gobbledegook
“Attention: The settlement will provide a cash payment if you are the original owner of certain Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro computer models (“Subject Computer”) or separately purchased an Apple 60W or 85W MagSafe MPM-1 (“T”) Power Adapter (“Adapter”), your Adapter shows signs of Strain Relief Damage, and you purchased an Adapter as a replacement (“Replacement Adapter”) within three years of purchasing the Subject Computer or Adapter.
You may also be able to obtain a Replacement Adapter at no charge from Apple if your Adapter shows signs of Strain Relief Damage in the future.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California authorized this Notice.
To learn more about the settlement (including whether your computer is covered by the settlement), make a claim or exclude yourself from the settlement, call 1-888-332-0277 or go to www.AdapterSettlement.com.
The Settlement: The settlement will provide a cash payment if you are the original owner (by purchase or gift) of certain Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro computers (“Subject Computer”) or separately purchased an Apple 60W or 85W MagSafe MPM-1 (“T”) Power Adapter (“Adapter”), the Adapter showed signs of Strain Relief Damage, and you purchased a Replacement Adapter at your own expense within the first three years following the initial purchase of the Subject Computer or Adapter.
If the Court approves the settlement, you may be entitled to a cash payment in the following amounts depending on whether you purchased your Replacement Adapter during the first, second or third year following the initial retail purchase of the Subject Computer or Adapter: (a) first year, the actual amount you paid (excluding taxes and shipping/handling fees) up to a maximum of $79; (b) second year $50; (c) third year $35. There is a limit of three refunds per Subject Computer.
You may also be able to obtain a Replacement Adapter at no charge from Apple if your Adapter shows signs of Strain Relief Damage now or in the future.
Your Rights: If you qualify, you may send in a Claim Form to ask for payment, or you can exclude yourself from the settlement or object to the settlement.
To claim a cash payment, you must mail the Claim Form postmarked on or before March 21, 2012.
To claim a Replacement Adapter, you must contact Apple within three years from the date you purchased a Subject Computer or standalone Adapter, or May 21, 2012, whichever is later. If you don‘t want a payment and you don’t want to be legally bound by the settlement, your opt-out request must be postmarked by January 6, 2012. If you stay in the Class, any objection you have to the settlement must be received by January 6, 2012.
Call 1-888-332-0277 or go to www.AdapterSettlement.com to get the information you need to make a claim, exclude yourself or object.
The Court will hold a hearing in this case (In re MagSafe Apple Power Adapter Litigation, Case No. C09-01911-JW) on February 27, 2012, at 9:00 a.m. to consider whether to approve (1) the settlement and (2) attorneys’ fees and expenses of up to $3.1 million and a service award to each named plaintiff of $5,000.
You may appear at the hearing, but you don’t have to. To obtain a full Notice and Claim Form, go to www.AdapterSettlement.com or call toll free 1-888-332-0277. For more details, go to www.AdapterSettlement.com or write to Helen Zeides, Esq., Zeides & Haeggquist, LLP, 625 Broadway, Suite 906, San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 342-8000.”
“WHAAAAA....” I said.
I get gobbledegook like this all the time, at least once per month.
“Join our class-action suit; hit the jackpot. You may be entitled to 89 bazilyun dollars (a few bucks).
Hit the big guys. Even the score!”
Just yesterday (Wednesday, November 23, 2011) we received another class-action settlement regarding the air-conditioning compressor for our 2003 Honda CR-V.
Do I or don’t I?
The air-conditioning on the CR-V still works fine, and the car is eight years old.
The air-conditioning hasn’t been touched; it’s as-delivered.
I haven’t yet had the air-conditioning compressor fail, and I haven’t even had the system recharged.
When it does fail I’ll be more interested in replacing the car.
When the AC failed on our old 1993 Chevrolet Astrovan, I didn’t repair the system. The Astrovan was 12 years old, 140,000 miles, and felt sick.
It needed a complete chassis rebuild, among other things.
Repairing the AC would have only fixed that one system, and woulda cost a fortune.
I started looking to replace the Astrovan instead, and did.
I wouldn’t be surprised if our CR-V far exceeded 12 years.
A previous Honda did, and the AC on it was still working when it got smashed up.
In fact, we’d probably still be driving it if it hadn’t got smashed up. —Insurance totaled it for $500; it woulda cost well over $1,000 to repair it.
I was tempted. (I didn’t repair it because I was about to replace it anyway.)
And the AC would probably still be working.
It got smashed up at 160,000 miles, 13 years.
The CR-V replaced it.
“Get this, folks,” the salesman gloated. “The CR-V gets 26 mpg highway.”
“Old car got 29,” I snapped.
I wonder what “Strain Relief Damage” is?
I’m not about to call the 800-number and find out.
I go by a simple rule.
If this laptop works, I don’t fiddle with it.
If it starts smoking I take it to Mac Shack.
There’s a youngish guy there I trust (he set up this laptop), and if I’m entitled to a free power-supply, he’ll tell me.
Mac Shack is not affiliated with Apple, but they service-and-sell MACs.
Beyond that, I’m not the original owner of this MacBook Pro.
It was purchased refurbished from the Apple-store.
Which means I wonder if it was wonky with its original owner?
Enough for that person to get angry and trade it for a Windoze® PC?
In which case Apple replaces what caused the wonkiness, and then tested the computer to make sure it worked.
Which is why I bought refurbished!
I also know how Windoze PC users go ballistic taking on a Macintosh.
(My wife drives a PC.)
Macintosh and Windoze PC are two different things, although I’ve driven both.
A PC-user I know is thinking of switching to MAC.
I advised against it.
The MAC way of doing things would just be added frustration.
So do I line up with the class-action suit against Apple?
No smoke yet!
• “Mac Shack,” east of Rochester, is an independent dealer selling and servicing Apple products, especially computers.
• Apple-store, affiliated with Apple Computers.
• “Windoze” is the Microsoft Windows computer operating system. MAC-users often claim it’s inferior and slow, which is where “Windoze” came from. Windows more-or-less copied the Macintosh graphic interface.
You may also be able to obtain a Replacement Adapter at no charge from Apple if your Adapter shows signs of Strain Relief Damage in the future.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California authorized this Notice.
To learn more about the settlement (including whether your computer is covered by the settlement), make a claim or exclude yourself from the settlement, call 1-888-332-0277 or go to www.AdapterSettlement.com.
The Settlement: The settlement will provide a cash payment if you are the original owner (by purchase or gift) of certain Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro computers (“Subject Computer”) or separately purchased an Apple 60W or 85W MagSafe MPM-1 (“T”) Power Adapter (“Adapter”), the Adapter showed signs of Strain Relief Damage, and you purchased a Replacement Adapter at your own expense within the first three years following the initial purchase of the Subject Computer or Adapter.
If the Court approves the settlement, you may be entitled to a cash payment in the following amounts depending on whether you purchased your Replacement Adapter during the first, second or third year following the initial retail purchase of the Subject Computer or Adapter: (a) first year, the actual amount you paid (excluding taxes and shipping/handling fees) up to a maximum of $79; (b) second year $50; (c) third year $35. There is a limit of three refunds per Subject Computer.
You may also be able to obtain a Replacement Adapter at no charge from Apple if your Adapter shows signs of Strain Relief Damage now or in the future.
Your Rights: If you qualify, you may send in a Claim Form to ask for payment, or you can exclude yourself from the settlement or object to the settlement.
To claim a cash payment, you must mail the Claim Form postmarked on or before March 21, 2012.
To claim a Replacement Adapter, you must contact Apple within three years from the date you purchased a Subject Computer or standalone Adapter, or May 21, 2012, whichever is later. If you don‘t want a payment and you don’t want to be legally bound by the settlement, your opt-out request must be postmarked by January 6, 2012. If you stay in the Class, any objection you have to the settlement must be received by January 6, 2012.
Call 1-888-332-0277 or go to www.AdapterSettlement.com to get the information you need to make a claim, exclude yourself or object.
The Court will hold a hearing in this case (In re MagSafe Apple Power Adapter Litigation, Case No. C09-01911-JW) on February 27, 2012, at 9:00 a.m. to consider whether to approve (1) the settlement and (2) attorneys’ fees and expenses of up to $3.1 million and a service award to each named plaintiff of $5,000.
You may appear at the hearing, but you don’t have to. To obtain a full Notice and Claim Form, go to www.AdapterSettlement.com or call toll free 1-888-332-0277. For more details, go to www.AdapterSettlement.com or write to Helen Zeides, Esq., Zeides & Haeggquist, LLP, 625 Broadway, Suite 906, San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 342-8000.”
“WHAAAAA....” I said.
I get gobbledegook like this all the time, at least once per month.
“Join our class-action suit; hit the jackpot. You may be entitled to 89 bazilyun dollars (a few bucks).
Hit the big guys. Even the score!”
Just yesterday (Wednesday, November 23, 2011) we received another class-action settlement regarding the air-conditioning compressor for our 2003 Honda CR-V.
Do I or don’t I?
The air-conditioning on the CR-V still works fine, and the car is eight years old.
The air-conditioning hasn’t been touched; it’s as-delivered.
I haven’t yet had the air-conditioning compressor fail, and I haven’t even had the system recharged.
When it does fail I’ll be more interested in replacing the car.
When the AC failed on our old 1993 Chevrolet Astrovan, I didn’t repair the system. The Astrovan was 12 years old, 140,000 miles, and felt sick.
It needed a complete chassis rebuild, among other things.
Repairing the AC would have only fixed that one system, and woulda cost a fortune.
I started looking to replace the Astrovan instead, and did.
I wouldn’t be surprised if our CR-V far exceeded 12 years.
A previous Honda did, and the AC on it was still working when it got smashed up.
In fact, we’d probably still be driving it if it hadn’t got smashed up. —Insurance totaled it for $500; it woulda cost well over $1,000 to repair it.
I was tempted. (I didn’t repair it because I was about to replace it anyway.)
And the AC would probably still be working.
It got smashed up at 160,000 miles, 13 years.
The CR-V replaced it.
“Get this, folks,” the salesman gloated. “The CR-V gets 26 mpg highway.”
“Old car got 29,” I snapped.
I wonder what “Strain Relief Damage” is?
I’m not about to call the 800-number and find out.
I go by a simple rule.
If this laptop works, I don’t fiddle with it.
If it starts smoking I take it to Mac Shack.
There’s a youngish guy there I trust (he set up this laptop), and if I’m entitled to a free power-supply, he’ll tell me.
Mac Shack is not affiliated with Apple, but they service-and-sell MACs.
Beyond that, I’m not the original owner of this MacBook Pro.
It was purchased refurbished from the Apple-store.
Which means I wonder if it was wonky with its original owner?
Enough for that person to get angry and trade it for a Windoze® PC?
In which case Apple replaces what caused the wonkiness, and then tested the computer to make sure it worked.
Which is why I bought refurbished!
I also know how Windoze PC users go ballistic taking on a Macintosh.
(My wife drives a PC.)
Macintosh and Windoze PC are two different things, although I’ve driven both.
A PC-user I know is thinking of switching to MAC.
I advised against it.
The MAC way of doing things would just be added frustration.
So do I line up with the class-action suit against Apple?
No smoke yet!
• “Mac Shack,” east of Rochester, is an independent dealer selling and servicing Apple products, especially computers.
• Apple-store, affiliated with Apple Computers.
• “Windoze” is the Microsoft Windows computer operating system. MAC-users often claim it’s inferior and slow, which is where “Windoze” came from. Windows more-or-less copied the Macintosh graphic interface.
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