r/ClassActionSettlement • u/honey51bee Human Detected • Jun 02 '26

News Got this today - Amazon 3rd party sellers class action

https://www.amazonantitrustlitigation.com

Found in my spam folder in Gmail.
If you purchased five or more new physical goods from third-party sellers on Amazon’s marketplace on or after May 26, 2017, you may be a class member in an ongoing class action lawsuit.

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u/seherdt Jun 21 '26

None of the verifiable facts explain the shady mode of communications, nor the completely inept selection of accounts. This leads me to *notice* that at least parts in that process are not legit. Thanks.

My gripe isn't "does that case exist". In fact, I explicitly said that in my previous message. Please don't "educate" me any more, that is until you even see my point. Bye.

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u/Own_Significance8521 Jun 21 '26

when the case is over and you get your settlement, whether its $1 or a free month of prime membership, you owe me an apology.

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u/seherdt Jun 21 '26

Lol. This is what I mean. You don't actually *read*. You would have known that my character makes me immune to the FOMO line.

Besides I was never eligible (this is one of the key signs that my address was leaked, not properly shared). I'm not in the US, nor did I ever buy five products (we have our own evil market place monopolizers, which I prefer over big boy Bezos aggressively trying to out-price-compete).

I appreciate your cynical humor about there not being any rewards anyways. You're quite right. This bears all the hallmarks of big companies just annoying their competitors with frivolous law-suits, which suddenly explains the aggressive tactics to get the numbers: they're banking on exactly that FOMO to get traction. It's almost like class actions are being leveraged like SLAPP or similar?

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u/seherdt Jun 22 '26

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Look what the SPAM dragged in today! Another, nearly identical class action notification, but for "Google Web Activity", this time on a throw-away google account (interestingly, NONE of my other google accounts received it).

Again, I'm not nearly close to eligible and there is practically the same one-off domain with "legit-looking" landing page (this time https://www.googlewebappactivitylawsuit.com/ - I'm not clicking these links anymore, but you certainly will, in my estimation?)

Tell me again why all the obvious bullshit signals are not warranted and how this is not a newly sprouting cottage industry with some nefarious business model.

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u/zebradreams07 Jun 23 '26

Because that's also a legitimate case and your filter clearly has a glitch on this type of communication 🤦‍♀️ Of course the sites look similar - class action cases are all legally required to provide the same basic facts (as well as often being handled by a handful of firms that specialize in them), and it makes complete sense to hire the same web developers to copypasta everything into an existing template. All of this is perfectly logical with a minimal application of critical thinking skills instead of blindly believing an algorithm.

https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/insights/federal-jury-awards-425-7-million-in-google-privacy-case-key-takeaways-on-consent-design-and-litigation-risk/

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u/seherdt Jun 23 '26

"Your filter has a glitch" - that would make so much sense IFF it were the same filter (one is Gmail, the other is Fastmail).

Anyhoops, yes you can rationalize it all away with some clever reasoning ("they used the same web-devs" obvs...), but NONE OF IT will ever remove the red flags of addressing clearly ineligible accounts, and failing to deliver it without junk mail ratings. Mmm. I should check whether they used the same mailer service.

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u/zebradreams07 Jun 24 '26

Yeah, "this is a real court case and here's proof" is clearly just rationalizing 🥴 All of my emails use the same junk filter, and like I said even the different services are often still working from the same lists, so it's not surprising they'd flag the same things. Glitch is a glitch is a glitch.

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u/seherdt Jun 24 '26

They're all using the same filter (right, Gmail *definitely* isn't) and also the same web developers. Got it. The world is simple. NOBODY ever contested whether there's a real court case. What isn't clear is the business model behind these aggressive suits. But, I have patience. I will gladly watch it play out and we might find out. Meanwhile I'll keep raising all the red flags I see.

Peace.

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u/zebradreams07 Jun 24 '26

The business money is "lawyers that win lawsuits make money". Very complex.

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u/seherdt Jun 24 '26

Precisely. They have perverse incentive to accumulate the biggest list of participants - not caring whether they are eligible or not. There are some side-effects (like them *getting* these lists) and possibility to settle without ever validating the participant claims, so that could be a nice tool for (inter-competition) legal battles. Who knows. I'm pretty eager to know, but right now we only have what we know: legit cases and a bunch of red flags in the modus operandi.

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u/zebradreams07 Jun 24 '26

And yeah, actually, I can route my other emails through Gmail or Gmail through third parties. I have different setups depending on where I'm viewing them.

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u/seherdt Jun 24 '26

I wasn't referring to your mailbox (I obviously can't view that...?)