By John Matarese - bio |email
TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) -Classmates.com has agreed to settle a Class Action suit that claimed it deceived folks who visited and signed up for the site into paying for monthly services they did not want.
But the proposed settlement is generating a lot of complaints, because some people receiving it say the check is its hardly worth the paper its printed on.
People who signed up for the site -- like Sandra Poland of Cincinnati's Western Hills neighborhood -- are getting good news and bad news in the mail.
"I was like oh, a settlement, I'm going to get some money," she said. "It said I would get $2 off a Classmates.com gold membership."
In fact, people who listed their names on Classmates.com free service will get a $2 discount if they now decide to pay for its premium service.
If you did end up buying a the premium Gold membership, you get a little bit more. She said "if I was actually a member, I'd get a $3 check."
So no matter what you did, you're lucky if you get enough for a cup of coffee. Unless, of course, you are one of the attorneys on the case, who Sandra says, "according to the legal documents get $1.3 million!"
Classmates.com could end up making a chunk of money too, if enough people like Sandra take the $2 discount, and decide to sign up and start paying, when they had not been paying previously.
Poland says she's not taking the settlement, saying says she finds old high school friends all the time now on Facebook, and says it turns out she's not missing much, except all the permed hair.
