Thursday, April 12, 2012

I find this topic to be very interesting. Reader Kate sent me the following email this morning,

“I wanted to pass along a deal idea for you – last night I was reading Parents magazine and noticed there was a class action settlement for Nutella (page 172 if you have the magazine – May issue), where you can claim $4/jar (up to $20 for 5) for each jar of Nutella you bought since January 2008. I saw it and thought, yep, we buy at least one a year, so there’s $20 free money for us! That prompted me to look at other class action settlements for products we’ve bought, and there are a number of them!! A $3.25 credit for iTunes if you bought a gift card (that’s 3 free songs!) and $10.50 if you bought certain E&J Gallo wines, $7.50 if you exchanged a propane tank with BlueRhino at the grocery store, etc.! Most of the forms are online and don’t require proof of purchase (who keeps receipts like that anyway?!) but do require you to certify that you’re being honest. So just this am in about 6 minutes, I submitted claims for over $40 - not bad! There’s a website that keeps track of all of the settlements going on, so you can see if you’ve bought any of the products and could get money back if you did — it’s topclassactions.com. There’s even an ABC article about the founder from last year where he says he makes about $4K annually off of filing claims for products he’s bought that are involved in these settlements – pretty amazing!”

So if you are interested I suggest following the links above. Definitely WORTH (hehe) looking into.

-Thanks Kate!

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