Customers get shafted in Nvidia class action suit

@ Jurassic4096 They probably kept their laptop or desktop, because in most cases you need the evidence to prove yourself right. I was in a car crash and in my country my car should be replaced by a new one (total los). This is because my car has a build year of 2007 and you can't shave of what the car is worth in a time of 5 years by law. So the insurance company of the other guy his car, had to pay all the money, that the guy his car was insured for. Now dig this; My car costs 11500$ and the insurance company could only come up with 4400$ because the guy couldn't pay for better insurance (and yes it sucks; I get to sell my car for a junkyard). Now the only thing i can do is sue that ***** who drove without a drivers license, for that extra money to buy me a whole new car of the same amount of cash it cost me. In order to do that i have to keep my car and photos of it for evidence. And my cars counter on devaluation has stopped the moment that ***** hit me. I paid hard earned money for that car. Not to mention the inconvenience i am going through (i'm stuck driving my race scooter by day; it has no electrical system for light, because of the rpm range i'm using it might melt away the charging system =p)

yes i geuss i couldn't control my emotions. Thanks

What country was this in?

Surinam a.k.a. SU =D

My knowledge of Surinamese law is nonexistent. =)

All I speak for is American law, and the difference is between 1st and 3rd party claims. If you insure your car with your insurance company, they are obligated to pay you the fair market value. The other person has liability insurance, up to a certain cap, and if your car is worth more than that, they only pay up to the amount of insurance that the person bought. So your choice is to get what you can from the insurance company, or forgo their settlement and sue the person for the full value of your car. But if that person has no money, you're usually better off getting whatever you can from the insurance company rather than nothing from the broke-*** person who hit your car. So if your car is worth relatively a lot of money, you're better off insuring it yourself, rather than relying on someone else's insurance. I would expect that your situation is somewhat similar.

And that fittingly is my 1000th post, about a subject I abjectly hate.

Lol didn't know it was your 1000th post. You still reached it though. Yep that pretty much sums it up. I can go and sue the guy but your right; the saying here goes " Je kan geen veren plukken van een kale kip". It means in english "you can't pick feathers of, of a featherless chicken =p. I can still try, but i guess in the end my new nissan will have to wait until i get money back together again. It hurts to see a perfectly good car go to waist by some random mindless driver

Unless they received a "class action" letter telling them to 'sit tight' or this is the only way they have to be compensated.

I'll never buy Nvidia again. plain and simple. It's abundantly obvious that they have the moral and ethical values of the worst kind, ( non existent). Way to Go Nvidia, I'm sure this will garner you allot more customers, morons.

Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the lawyers walked away with $13,000,000 - yes, thirteen million dollars - while is was estimated that the value of the settlement to the class wouldn't exceed ten million. While lawyers typically argue for fees they state at maybe 30% of the value of the settlement, in this case they received about 130% !!

I guess if the attorneys' fees are tied to the amount of compensation to the class, they would probably have worked harder for the plantiffs. Tort reform, anyone?

LOL, yep, can't get blood out of a stone. But although it seems like little consolation, any crash you can walk away from is a good one in the big picture.

I was given one of the defective HP laptops, when it was bought my buddy paid nearly $1500 for it. The affected GPUs didn't just get put into $1000 machine here guys. His laptop was very nice when he bought it, it was gotten to play games on. 512MB graphics memory and a dual core processor, 17" screen and they want to compensate him with something with integrated graphics and a low wattage single core processor that's junk and couldn't even play most games from a year ago let alone anything new and its a smaller screen....he had issues with the WiFi not working random crashes and restarts, finally gave up on it last year and gave it to me since neither best buy or hp would fix any problems with it ( out of warranty) without costing half of a new one.

Wow, so they're out the full cost of the original laptop ($1000), if you assume they had to buy a second one to use over the defective product.

Most of you don't understand the real issue here. Some of the people originally purchased a low end laptop and is getting it replaced with such. In my case, and many others, I purchased a TX1410 with a swivel touch screen, dual core processor with all the connections and ports I wanted. Here is what my original TX has that the replacement does not have: Touch screen, dual core processor, card reader, finger print scanner, web cam, port replicator connection, IR remote control, and a few other things I am sure I overlooked. So the bottom line here is not the depreciation in $$ value, but the fact the replacement doesn't even have half of the performance or connections I originally paid for. I can handle the $$ depreciation, if it only had half the things my original had. Heck, my 3 year old TX with failed wireless still benchmarks almost twice as fast as what the new replacement does. How is this even close to fair? No matter if you bought a $400 budget machine, or a $2000 entertainment laptop, we are all getting the same CQ56 as a replacement....

My brother just sent me this article and I'm sure glad he did.

I am one of the class action members and have been wondering what the hold up with my replacement laptop has been. I sent my HP 17'' dv9310US back to them in early February and still have not received my replacement. It states on the documentation to "please be patient" and a replacement will arrive in 7-10 weeks. Well it's been over 12 weeks now and still no replacement!

I just want the damn thing so I can sell the piece of crap and recoup hopefully $200. I had to personally fix the HP I had and luckily found a fix on YouTube (since the problem was so widespread). I remember calling HP and telling them I had no screen whatsoever when I fired up my laptop (just all black, no graphics at all..... BTW thanks Nvidia!). Since I was "out of warranty", HP went into their usual spew about it costing damn near $275 for a new motherboard........ yeah right!

Well long story short, I fixed the problem for all of $25..... which included a micro torch ($12), a piece of copper sheeting ($8), and a butane filler for the torch ($3). I disassembled the laptop myself and reheated the GPU, upon which I installed new solder paste and a 2''x2'' copper shroud. Threw it back together and it was fixed. Lasted a good 1.5 years until I purchased my next laptop........... which is now a Macbook Pro 17'' (something I swore I'd never own). I now understand why MBP's are so highly touted, I've had it a good month and have yet to have any stress at all, like I did with my HP machines. I do run Windows 7 on my MBP and love the dual functionality when needed.

So am I happy to be receiving a 15'' POS(Piece of $!*!) Compaq? Well no, since I had a 17''.

But am I happy to be getting something of perceived value? Damn right.

I'll sell this thing on eBay/Craigslist/etc and throw the money in the bank.

You are misunderstanding. Most systems that failed were high-end laptops with dual-core processors, optical drives, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Firewire ports, etc. The Tx1000 that died on me was a convertable touchscreen tablet with an AMD dual-core, DVD burner, biometric security, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, increased memory, etc. The 'like kind and value' replacement I'm receiving is an Asus EEE Netbook, no optical drive, no bluetooth, no biometrics and Windows 7 Starter. Or I have the option of choosing the Compaq CQ56. Neither one comes close to replacing what I had.

Judge Ware, Jon Peddie and Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh were the best things NVIDIA's money could buy. They saved NVIDIA a fortune.

So it survived until the warranty was out? Then it's confirmed, anyone expecting anything near the $1000 they paid are high on crack. Judge Judy would laugh in anyones face if they came to her court with this bullcaca. I miss her

Sounds like Nvidia was a bit cheap in the replacements, but basing your compensation on today's replacement cost is how it works everywhere.

Think of gas prices... if gas is $3/gallon and the station down the street buys 500 gallons they will always sell that gas at it's current price. If gas goes up to $4/gal they don't raise their prices after their current stock is out, they do it right away. Same if it goes down. It's always based on the current 'replacement' cost. Never what you purchased it at. If that were true, then you'd have to have kept your receipt to prove you didn't pay $5000 for that PC.

Nvidia should have replaced the computers with current exact matching spec computers, and if they're not d-bags, they should throw in something to make up for the lost time of having a defective one. But that's up to them, and not required.

You forget that YOUR class action lawyers approved this settlement.

Did they get paid their 13 million in laptops? Probably not.

This is why a class action lawsuit was stupid and from the get go you should not have expected to get anything worthwhile for it.

Once the settlement amount was agreed upon, YOUR lawyers stopped caring how exactly your share of the settlement was going to get disbursed. Laptops, cash, gift cards, cattle, who cares?

I bought an asus G1 for 1799euros in 2007 and 2,5 years after the gpu died which is embedded.. My laptop was not included in those with the settlement but I do believe that it had the same flaw... talk about frustration..