Past and present Google Adwords customers - check your email! You should be receiving an email notice regarding settlement of the Adwords class action lawsuit for $20 Million. If you were an Adwords customer between January 1, 2002 to February 28, 2009 and your account was charged more than your daily budget you may be eligible for piece of class action.
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If you are not a Reseller, you are a member of the Class if: you reside in the United States, have paid Google for advertising pursuant to Google’s AdWords program and either (a) became an AdWords advertiser between June 1, 2005 and February 28, 2009, inclusive, and were charged more than your per day Daily Budget on any day during that time period; or (b) paused your AdWords advertising campaign on any day during the period from January 1, 2002 to February 28, 2009, inclusive, and during the same billing period when your AdWords advertising campaign was paused, were charged more than the product of your per day Daily Budget times the number of days that your AdWords advertising campaign was not paused during that billing period. |
The settlement was for $20 million to be distributed between class members who meet the criteria for disbursement.
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Pursuant to the settlement described herein, $20,000,000, in a combination of cash and AdWords Credits, have been created for the benefit of the Class. These funds have been placed in an interest-bearing escrow account.
A Class member’s distribution from the net Settlement Fund will be determined by a Plan of Allocation to be |
Google has denied any wrongdoing in the case.
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Google, while continuing to deny all allegations of wrongdoing or liability, desired to settle and terminate all existing or potential claims against it without in any way acknowledging fault or liability. |
The lion’s share is going to the lawyers but there will probably be a lot of other people who get a piece…
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Representative Plaintiffs’ Counsel for the Class intend to apply for: attorneys’ fees of not more than $5,000,000, plus a proportionate share of the interest earned on the Settlement Proceeds, for reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with the prosecution and settlement of this litigation, not to exceed $250,000; and for an incentive compensation award to the two Representative Plaintiffs, not to exceed $20,000 each. |
You can get more information about this class action lawsuit at :
http://www.adwordscustomersettlement.com/
So what do you think? Are any of you reading this going to get a big windfall from this class action? Affiliate marketers are bread and butter for Adwords so there would have to be quite a few affiliate marketers in line for their settlement.
Sounds good to me! I guess I should check my inbox for that email. I only spend a few hundred per month with Adwords, so I’m curious what my cut would be? Even if it’s all Adwords credit, that’s fine. I’ll take it!
Very nice. I wonder if Shoemoney will have similar success in his action against Google.
@Reuben - It doesn’t look like it’s going to be very much for average Adwords customers but it’s worth checking out how much is available.
This is the first I had heard of the settlement on Google’s part. In fact, I didn’t realize there were Adword underpayments. I personally am not affected by this, however, it is interesting to see Google’s willingness to settle - an admittance of guilt, perhaps?
In any event, at least they did make a payout for those who were wronged, but the question is whether or not that figure is an accurate representation of the actual dollar amount in error.
Isn’t it amazing what turn of events can take place? Appreciate you letting your readers know about this.
I wonder how they are getting around letting resellers get a piece of the pie. I know that many resellers have had problems for themselves as well as have had problems with their clients surrounding the issue.
That might open the door for later action.
Thanks for the post. Wow, I was a customer between these same dates, that means thatI can be eligible for piece of class action. Thats cool!!! I have never thought about it!!! Thanks for sharing it with me, I really appreciate it.
Nice article. I was a customer during those dates. I’ll definitely be checking into this! Maybe adsense will finally pay me more than $3.47…ha ha. Thanks.
Thanks for this great info. I used adwords a while back, and I have not checked with it since I ran out of money! I better go see if I have anything coming from this!
Thank you!
it is just rightful to give back if they have charged more than the usual.
$20 million is a lot to distribute, LOL..
I used adwords a while back and to be honest havent checked my email account for quite sometime, best check it to see if got message from google. Thanks for letting me know about this.
I will for sure be looking into this. If only now they could do something about closing Adsense accounts without letting you know why or having to prove it. Thanks for the info!
It takes a pretty hard time and it is very tough to do it. Google is setting new records and according to the stats of 2008 Google spent around 500$ billion on ads.
We just received our notice in the mail today.
Wow it is really a fantastic news to hear about !did google publish the name of the lucky guys getting the bucks !wow i wish if i were there then i would have also got some of them!
Google seem to be getting caught up in a fair few legal disputes these days. Hopefully they’ll wake up and spend some time working on a worthwhile support team for the Adsense and Adwords programs. Cheers.:D