This photo’s relevant, we swear. Please see metaphor at the end of paragraph three.
If you’re an Ohioan who’s had a credit card at anytime since 1987—and if you’re like us, you’ve had 24 of them that have intermittently saved Christmas and ruined your life, in that order—you win a hundred bucks!
Worth of some really unexciting credit services.
Credit reporting giant TransUnion, it seems, has been running a nice racket on the side, selling your confidential credit info to marketers. After 10 years of lawsuits, the company has finally agreed to settle. But it’s paying Ohioans with credit reporting services, which is kind of like McDonald’s losing an obesity lawsuit and paying damages in Big Mac coupons, only not as cool, because Big Macs are pretty tasty. …
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2008.
10 years of lawsuits! Wow.
Say what you will about greedy lawyers, but those folks spent millions fighting this case not knowing if they would ever see a dime. Without them doing that, we would never see a dime either. They deserve everything they get.