Sprint Class Action Settlement, claim must be postmarked July 12th

[BlueFlamme]

Sprint Class Action Settlement

From how I read it sprint charged customers an additional "regulatory fee" that really just went into their pockets so a class action suit was brought against them. You can read the website to get more details to determine if you qualify under the Benney or Lundberg settlements.

For Benney Class I the settlement will be either $19 over 2 years or a one-time $15 payment per line.

For Lundberg Class I it is $7 over 2 years or one-time $5 per line.

 

[allisolm]

For Sprint wireless phone customers.

 

[GTFan]

Yet another Lawyer Fulltime Employment class action. Sprint wants you to sign up for another 2 years to get the max credit, so they love this 'settlement'.

 

[ICantAffordIt]

Yeah, kinda funny that you can get a free phone for a 2 year agreement, or 8 equal payments of $2.38 for a 2 year agreement.

 

[fbrdphreak]

What a blowjob

 

[ElFenix]

marked for later (i think my form got tossed with my bill)

 

[crow610]

Damn, should have never cancelled Sprint.

 

[babylon5]

Lawyers make millions of suing big companies

 

[Nick5324]

Agree this is worthless b/c of the 2 year contract:
"An immediate invoice credit of $15.00, upon their agreement to a two-year contract for Sprint wireless service"

:thumbsdown: So the only way to get paid back for being ripped off in the past is to sign up for a 2 year contract, lame.

Thanks for the heads up though OP.

 

[GotIssues]

Originally posted by: crow610
Damn, should have never cancelled Sprint.

No, you are lucky. You didn't get ripped off for years and win a settlement that requires you to sign a two year contract to get $15 back from the money they stole from you in the first place. Sprint basically won this lawsuit, they stole your money, earned interest/etc on it for a couple of years, and to get your money back you have to sign a 2 year agreement, making them even more money. I'm glad I'm leaving this PoS service when my contract is up...

 

[lamerde]

You think that any other phone company is different? Check out the fees on your friends' bills and report back..

$2/month must really mean a lot to you if you are so pissed off at this.

 

[foohbah]

I qualify for the top level payment but would have to sign up for 2 more years to get $15 - the court must be joking - 2 years retention is worth closer to $100 to Sprint (not me!). The terms are astounding, demonstrating once again that American justice is definitely the best justice money can buy.

 

[BlueFlamme]

Well if you just signed up for 2 more years for phone upgrade this isn't a bad thing. I'm looking at getting $30 off my bill if this goes through, and i would just be getting nothing if otherwise.

 

[darkavenger626]

wow lame

 

[altonb1]

For those that no longer have service, you get paid in phone cards, i believe. That works for nme since I dropedd them almost a year and a half ago. Sprint sucks. I only switched because of the discount I am now getting through my employer with verizon. I explained that when i called to cancel, too. They became a pain when i tried to port my number and tried to charge me a cancellation fee even though I had been free of my contract for a couple of months. They also couldn't get me a correct bill, so I kept telling them i wasn't paying until they sent me an accurate bill that was itemized with the proper charges. That took them 2-3 months and of course, I was getting harassing phone calls from their collections dept during this time. I won't go back to them ever again because of the way they handled my LEAVING. ironically, I had been a Sprint customer for about 6 years when I finally cancelled.

 

[HeaterCore]

Ugh. These are the sort of "coupon settlements" that really piss other lawyers off. Apparently there's just this subclass of bastards who make millions doing this, hurting their "clients" and undermining the entire judicial system.

OT:

As irritating as these guys are, though, they're not the big mystery to me. I mean, they do what they do because it makes a ton of money -- their actions are logical, if indefensible. What I don't get is why the courts actually sign off on these agreements. It's right there in the rule authorizing class actions (Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23): "The court must approve any settlement, voluntary dismissal, or compromise" of a case, which it may only do "on finding that the settlement, voluntary dismissal, or compromise is fair, reasonable, and adequate."

What part of this settlement is fair, reasonable, or adequate?

 

[Whiskyboy]

Seeing as I fit the Benney class III, the difference of $1 in value between the phone card and the contract credit makes it an easy decision. Its not like I need a calling card, but there aren't any strings and its $14 for free.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
What a blowjob

My thoughts exactly.

 

[trexmgd]

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
What a blowjob

My thoughts exactly.

Yeah, and the customers are giving it.

I loved Sprint years ago when they were one of the first carriers to offer nationwide long distance, etc. - They saved me lots of money versus using my home phone. But after putting up with years of horrible customer service (nearly impossible to talk to a human over there) the final straw was the Nextel Merger. My coverage went down (took out of service what they felt were redundant towers?) dropped calls increased and for my last renewal bonus offered me $2.50 off the $5.00 price of 7PM nights and weekends - something they hand out to any new customer free.

 

[Kerby1280]

HAHAHA- You get ripped off in the past by Sprint and you win a class action lawsuit to get ripped off again by Sprint for another 2 years- HAHAHAHA

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
What a blowjob

That's a pretty good deal...how do I get in on this?

 

[Mani]

Sprint is horrible. I was in on a class action lawsuit against them for complete lack of signal coverage in an area they claimed in their coverage maps was solid. They used every underhanded trick in the book to get the case dismissed. Finally they settled and I got $100. Better than nothing I guess but did't come close to compensating me for the money I wasted on that godawful company.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: Mani
Sprint is horrible. I was in on a class action lawsuit against them for complete lack of signal coverage in an area they claimed in their coverage maps was solid. They used every underhanded trick in the book to get the case dismissed. Finally they settled and I got $100. Better than nothing I guess but did't come close to compensating me for the money I wasted on that godawful company.

Who do you use as your provider now? Class Action Lawuits are a dime a dozen. EVERY single provider has numerous lawsuits against them. They are all crooks and out to make money and screw the customer.

They are ALL "godawful".

Motorola and Verizon have a Class Action Lawsuit against them.

Verizon also has one that is being filed for blocking emails and filtering them.

Verizon - "BellSouth and AT&T were added to a class-action lawsuit against Verizon Communications that alleges the companies illegally participated in a National Security Agency domestic surveillance program. "


A California based law firm is bringing a class action lawsuit against most US cell phone carriers for over charging customers for night and weekend use. The carriers being investigated are: AT&T Wireless, Verizon, Cingular, NEXTEL, Cellular one, Sprint, T Mobile, and US Cellular.

RIM is in a suit against a canadian company for using technology they shouldn't be.

Cingular has a class action lawsuit against it for early termination fees.

Cingular - A couple of employees filed a class action lawsuit against aws and cingular for charge backs.

The settlement basically forces cingular to pay some of it back based on how much commission you made during that time


T-Mobile - "This class action lawsuit, entitled Behar v. T-Mobile, was filed on October 24, 2003 in San Diego Superior Court. It seeks to proceed as a class action on behalf California residents arising out of T-Mobile's allegedly unfair, deceptive and misleading business practices of billing their cellular telephone customers for calls dialed to their cellular telephones while their customers (and their cellular telephones) were outside the United States, even though their customers never received or made the calls for which they were billed."

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: Mani
Sprint is horrible. I was in on a class action lawsuit against them for complete lack of signal coverage in an area they claimed in their coverage maps was solid. They used every underhanded trick in the book to get the case dismissed. Finally they settled and I got $100. Better than nothing I guess but did't come close to compensating me for the money I wasted on that godawful company.

Who do you use as your provider now? Class Action Lawuits are a dime a dozen. EVERY single provider has numerous lawsuits against them. They are all crooks and out to make money and screw the customer.

They are ALL "godawful".

Motorola and Verizon have a Class Action Lawsuit against them.

Verizon also has one that is being filed for blocking emails and filtering them.

Verizon - "BellSouth and AT&T were added to a class-action lawsuit against Verizon Communications that alleges the companies illegally participated in a National Security Agency domestic surveillance program. "


A California based law firm is bringing a class action lawsuit against most US cell phone carriers for over charging customers for night and weekend use. The carriers being investigated are: AT&T Wireless, Verizon, Cingular, NEXTEL, Cellular one, Sprint, T Mobile, and US Cellular.

RIM is in a suit against a canadian company for using technology they shouldn't be.

Cingular has a class action lawsuit against it for early termination fees.

Cingular - A couple of employees filed a class action lawsuit against aws and cingular for charge backs.

The settlement basically forces cingular to pay some of it back based on how much commission you made during that time


T-Mobile - "This class action lawsuit, entitled Behar v. T-Mobile, was filed on October 24, 2003 in San Diego Superior Court. It seeks to proceed as a class action on behalf California residents arising out of T-Mobile's allegedly unfair, deceptive and misleading business practices of billing their cellular telephone customers for calls dialed to their cellular telephones while their customers (and their cellular telephones) were outside the United States, even though their customers never received or made the calls for which they were billed."

TMobile. Can't say they are perfect but at least their coverage is existent in their advertised areas and their customer service is very good. That's worlds better than my experience with Sprint.

Yes, I'm sure every company has been involved in class action lawsuits at some point - nothing surprising about that. In fact probably most of the consumer electronics/services companies in the fortune 500 have probably been involved in one at some point. But you can learn a lot about a company's business practices by the determined credibility of the cases brought against them and the response they take.

 

[bobdelt]

Is anyone aware of sprints referal program? 25 bucks for both the new guy and the guy that referred them. So 50 bucks shelled out if someone signs up. Yet the courts are giving us 15???

I bet for each one of these settlements, the judge is getting 25 dollar referral card! lol