If you paid money to Microsoft for an MSN account established in your name at a Best Buy store, never logged on to the account, and never received a full refund, you may be entitled to a payment from a class action settlement.
A class action settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit pending against Microsoft Corporation, Best Buy Co., Inc., and Best Buy Stores, L.P. (collectively “Defendants”) in the Superior Court of the State of Washington (styled James Odom and Katherine Moureaux-Maloney. v. Microsoft Corporation, Best Buy Co., Inc., and Best Buy Stores, L.P., Case No. 04-2-10618-4 SEA), alleging, among other things, that Microsoft and Best Buy engaged in unfair business practices in connection with the promotion of MSN Internet access service subscriptions at Best Buy stores by offering MSN internet subscriptions with free-trial periods to Best Buy store customers from December 1999 to June 2004 and then charging the subscriber’s credit or debit card at the end of the trial period, even if the subscriber had never logged on to or used the MSN service, according to the Microsoft Best Buy MSN Free Internet Trial class action settlement notice.
The Microsoft Best Buy MSN Free Internet Trial subscription settlement reportedly includes all people in the United States who (1) at any time from December 1, 1999 to the present, paid Microsoft for charges in connection with a free-trial MSN Internet access service account that was established in their name at a Best Buy store between December 1, 1999 and June 30, 2004, but did not receive a full refund, and (2) did not log on to the account, unless otherwise excluded.
If the Microsoft Best Buy MSN Free Internet Trial subscription settlement is approved by the Court settlement class members who mail the Claims Administrator a timely and valid claim form are reportedly entitled to receive a refund of MSN charges that they paid on their account that were not previously refunded, up to a maximum of $75.
If settlement class members are currently paying for an MSN free-trial subscription established at a Best Buy store between December 1, 1999 and June 30, 2004, Microsoft will cancel it and stop billing the settlement class member, unless the settlement class member asks for it to stay open.
Microsoft or Best Buy will also reportedly pay agreed litigation costs, including costs of giving notice to the class, administering the settlement, Court-approved incentive awards to the two Plaintiffs, and a Court-approved award of attorneys’ fees and expenses to Plaintiffs’ attorneys
On September 24, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., the Honorable Douglass A. North of the Superior Court of Washington for King County (Seattle) is scheduled to hold a hearing on the fairness of the settlement and whether it should be approved. The settlement hearing will be held in Courtroom W-764 of the Superior Court of Washington for King County, 516 Third Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104.
For more information on the Microsoft Best Buy MSN Free Internet Trial subscription class action lawsuit settlement and potential settlement benefits and/or updates on the settlement, visit the Microsoft Best Buy MSN Free Internet Trial subscription class action settlement website:
www.internetfreetrialsettlement.com
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75.00 dollars is not enough all the calls to my credit card to stop payment called msn to stop they still charge me the next month i had aol at the time and told them i don’t need to internet providers i gave best buy my debit card for a computer screen and got msn never asked for it .this is stealing!!!!! . cost me over 100.00 dollars before i caught it